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The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 2024 across Paris, beginning at 19:30 CEST (17:30 UTC).As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings included an artistic program showcasing the culture of the host country and city, the parade of athletes and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.
[9] [10] [11] The opening ceremony was held outside of a stadium for the first time in modern Olympic history, being outdoors in the Paris's downtown and with as athletes were paraded by boat along the Seine. Paris 2024 was the first Olympics in history to reach full gender parity on the field of play, with equal numbers of male and female ...
In Europe, for the first time, the IOC rejected the offer from EBU to broadcast the 2014 & 2016 Olympics, so individual networks in Europe must contract for television rights. SKY Italia in 2008 had reached an agreement to broadcast 2014 & 2016 Olympics, but later, it sold the second one to RAI, holding only the first one.
PARIS — There has never been an Olympic Games that put its host city on display quite like this. In an unprecedented Opening Ceremony, the 2024 Summer Games kicked off with a wave of pageantry ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony will air on Friday, July 26, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. The two platforms will also air a primetime presentation of the event at 7:30 p.m. ET ...
Floriane Issert, an officer with France's National Gendarmerie, carries the Olympic flag during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 13, 2004 starting at 20:45 EEST at the Olympic Stadium in Marousi, Greece, a suburb of Athens. [2] As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal and ceremonial opening of this international sporting event, including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes, with an artistic ...
Track and field takes over center stage at the Olympics the second half of the two-week Paris Games get going. Prelims in the men's and women's 100 meters, then the 10,000 finals are highlights on ...