Even French President Emmanuel Macron initially said the opening ceremony felt like ‘a crazy’ idea.
A visitor strolls past a “Paris” sign that is reflected in the glass wall of the Montparnasse tower observation deck as the Eiffel Tower stands in the background ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Paris. PARIS — Paris has long been a city of dreamers: Just look at the Eiffel Tower, for decades the world’s loftiest structure.
Prize-winning French theater director Thomas Jolly is turning central Paris into an open-air stage for the opening ceremony that will run through sunset and showcase Bangladeshi tourist Rushnia Nur Rayfa stands in front of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France.
Guesses about the identity of the person or people who might get the honor of lighting the Olympic cauldron include soccer icon Zinedine Zidane and other French sporting heroes, but also survivors of Islamic State-group gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people on Nov. 13, 2015. The decision not to stage the opening ceremony in the traditional setting of France’s biggest stadium — the Stade de France that was among the 2015 Officers from the National Police Intervention Force stand watch outside Sacre Coeur of Montmartre Basilica, ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France.
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