Revealing the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics
Three years after bidding farewell to the Tokyo Olympics, another Olympic extravaganza is about to officially kick off.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is about to be staged, and this ancient city will once again become the focus of the world's attention.
How will the opening ceremony proceed? How will the athletes from various countries enter? What unique features will this opening ceremony have? Now, let's take a look at the "full reveal" of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Creating Olympic History
The entire process of the opening ceremony is expected to last for about 4 hours. And this Olympic opening ceremony will also create new history.
The biggest difference from previous opening ceremonies is that this time, the athlete entry session of the opening ceremony will no longer be held in the stadium but will take place on the Seine River, where the athletes will meet the audience along this famous river that runs through the center of Paris.
By then, the organizing committee will mobilize nearly 100 ships to carry approximately 10,500 athletes on a cruise along the Seine River. Among the 206 National Olympic Committees and Regional Olympic Committees participating in the cruise, larger ones will have their own ships, while smaller ones will share ships.
As a result, athletes can move from the relatively closed stadium space in the past to the open urban public space to meet the audience. The outdoor cruise design also significantly increases the number of on-site spectators.
It is estimated that approximately 300,000 people will watch the opening ceremony on-site, making the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics the one with the largest audience scale and geographical coverage.
In addition, in addition to the 104,000 paid tickets at the downstream pier, there are also 222,000 free tickets available for the audience to watch the cruise on the upper bank of the Seine River. This is also the first time in history that most of the audience can watch the Olympic opening ceremony without having to pay for tickets.
Under the Sunset, Witnessing the Beauty of Paris
On the sparkling Seine River, under the golden Parisian sunset glow, and amid the cheers and applause of the spectators along the banks, the athletes will be able to enjoy the beautiful urban scenery of Paris.
The teams representing each country will march 6 kilometers along the Seine River from east to west, starting from the Austerlitz Bridge near the Paris Botanical Garden and passing through numerous historic bridges and landmark buildings, such as Notre-Dame de Paris, the Louvre, the Invalides, and the Grand Palais, etc.
Ultimately, the delegations will arrive at the Trocadéro Square opposite the Eiffel Tower to jointly participate in the official ceremony of the opening ceremony, and the Olympic main cauldron will also be lit here.
Artistic Performances Throughout the Opening Ceremony
How the Olympic main cauldron will be lit is undoubtedly one of the topics that everyone is most concerned about, and this "top secret" of the opening ceremony is also strictly kept confidential and will only be revealed in the final cauldron lighting session.
In addition, how the artistic performances of the opening ceremony will be presented is also quite eye-catching.
It is disclosed that on the opening ceremony day, about 3,000 dancers, musicians and other performers will jointly contribute wonderful performances. The forms of the performances will also be rich and diverse. In addition to singing and dancing, they will also combine numerous installations, lighting and electronic equipment to present wonderful audio-visual effects.
At the same time, the performance locations will not be limited to one place. There will also be artistic performances on the river banks and bridges along the route of the delegation cruise.
In Paris, 80 large screens and carefully positioned audio devices have also been set up, so that the audience can better and more clearly enjoy the wonderful scenes of the opening ceremony.
Interestingly, since the artistic performances are scattered everywhere, the rehearsals were also conducted separately everywhere before the official opening of the opening ceremony, and there was no unified "collective rehearsal".
The dance director of the opening and closing ceremonies, Maud Le Pladec, said, "There is music, dance and performance on every stretch of the riverbank and every bridge." The artistic director of the opening ceremony, Thomas Jolly, said, "The opening ceremony will show the audience a more authentic Paris. Paris is a city that constantly reconstructs itself. The feeling of bringing diversity together is our goal and also the goal of the Olympics."
