- July 27, 2024 03:06And that is it for the night
And that is it for tonight. Despite thousands of spectators facing long queues and ticketing problems as they arrived for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics along the River Seine, we hope that you have enjoyed the coverage from Sportstar.
Keep following for real-time updates from the Summer Games.
- July 27, 2024 03:01Paris 2024 Olympics is underway!!
- July 27, 2024 02:57Celine Dion performs
A year and half after her withdrawal from public appearances, Celine Dion performs Édith Piaf’s famous work, Hymne à l’amour (the Hymn to Love).
- July 27, 2024 02:44The Olympic flame has been lit
Former French tennis player and French Open director Amélie Mauresmo receives the torch from the boat and runs alongside the crowd.
She passes it to former NBA player Tony Parker and the two of them jog past the Louvre and its pyramid.
Many more Olympic and Paralympic athletes carry the torch towards the Jardin des Tuileries. Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec are the final torchbearers.
They carry the flame to the cauldron in the Jardin des Tuileries, aligned with the Louvre, Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, and the Arc de Triomphe.
A hot air balloon is attached to it which rises once the flame is lit. A nod to the first hydrogen-powered flight of a balloon, which took place in the Tuileries in 1783.
- July 27, 2024 02:35Legends carry the flame
Nadal travels across the Seine River in a boat and hands over the torch to Serena Williams who then passes it to Nadia Comaneci. Carl Lewis is the final icon in the boat to carry the torch.
- July 27, 2024 02:28Zidane passes the torch to Rafael Nadal
The mysterious masked character arrives and passes the torch to Zinedine Zidane. Loud cheers as Rafael Nadal appears and takes the torch from Zizou.
The Eiffel Tower slowly lights up the night sky with the rings appearing one by one.
- July 27, 2024 02:26France’s flagbearers Florent Manaudou and Mélina Robert-Michon recite the Olympic oath
- July 27, 2024 02:26Paris 2024 Olympics is officially open
President Emmanuel Macron says in French: “I declare the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad open!”
- July 27, 2024 02:24IOC President Thomas Bach speaks
“What better place than Paris to share the magic of this Olympic Games with the whole world?” he says.
“Paris, the birthplace of our founder, Pierre de Coubertin, to whom we owe everything. Paris, City of Light, where he created the modern Olympic Games. Paris, City of Love,” he adds
- July 27, 2024 02:20Oops...an upside-down flag
- July 27, 2024 02:17And so it begins!!
- July 27, 2024 02:11The Olympic flag being taken to be hoisted!
- July 27, 2024 02:07Filippo Grandi is an Olympic Laureate!
The Olympic Laurel Award is presented to Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and a big supporter of the Refugee Olympic Team.
- July 27, 2024 02:03Finally!.....At the Trocadero!
- July 27, 2024 01:54What a sight!
- July 27, 2024 01:47Solidarite!
Sofian Pamart and Juliette Armanet perform John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s timeless classic, Imagine as the screen displays ‘We all stand and call for peace’!
- July 27, 2024 01:38Not to forget the surfers joining in from Tahiti!
- July 27, 2024 01:25Time for the host!
Flagbearers Florent Manaudou and Mélina Robert-Michon lead the host’s contingent! And the cheers from the audience rises!
- July 27, 2024 01:23Another click from the Indian contingent!
- July 27, 2024 01:21Basketball legend Lebron James and Coco Gauff, the flag bearers for USA
- July 27, 2024 01:10How can we be in Paris and not show some fashion!
- July 27, 2024 01:04The US contingent passing through the Siene!
- July 27, 2024 00:54Jours heureux!
- July 27, 2024 00:51Mongolia killing it with their costumes!
- July 27, 2024 00:40Nigeria women’s basketball team denied entry to opening ceremony boat by federation - reports
The Nigeria women’s basketball team wasn’t allowed to board the delegation’s boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics a report said.
Once the team made it to the area where it was supposed to board the boat for the ceremony, the group was denied entry by a Nigerian official who told the players and coaches there were too many people on board. The team then made its way to the athletes village after being turned away.
- AP
- July 27, 2024 00:38An ode to the past!
Headless figures depicting the 18th century Queen Marie Antoinette line up with fire shows along the Seine river embankment outside the Conciergerie, where the queen was held captive during the French revolution, during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony. Credit - AFP
- July 27, 2024 00:33Not the best news!
Our reporters say there is a power outage in the press box due to the rains. The ceremony carries on though!
- July 27, 2024 00:28Allons enfant de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
- July 27, 2024 00:26Recognising ten famous women from France!
With the national anthem La Marseillaise playing in the background, the ceremony pays tribute to Olympe de Gouges, Alice Milliat, Gisèle Halimi, Simone de Beauvoir, Paulette Nardal, Jeanne Barret, Louise Michel, Christine de Pizan, Alice Guy, and Simone Veil.
- July 27, 2024 00:17Time for India!!
India and Indonesia pass through the Siene in the same boat.
- July 27, 2024 00:15Team Great Britain makes an iconic entrance
- July 27, 2024 00:11The Indian contingent is on their way
Flagbearers Sharath Kamal and co-flag bearer PV Sindhu lead the 78-member contingent.
- July 27, 2024 00:07Rafa takes it all in
- July 27, 2024 00:04Performers by the river Seine
- July 27, 2024 00:00Heavy rain in Paris
The opening ceremony continue to proceed despite the heavy rains, which do not dampen the spirits of the spectators, the performers or even the athletes that are taking it all in.
- July 26, 2024 23:56Popstar Aya Nakamura performs along with the orchestra of the French Republican Guard
Aya Nakamura performs her popular songs ‘Pookie’ and ‘Djadja’ at the Pont des Arts, a bridge linking the Institut de France to the Louvre Museum.
- July 26, 2024 23:45Revisiting history
The mysterious torch bearer makes their way through a re-enactment of the French Revolution.
Opera singer Marina Viotti and heavy metal band Gojira performs Ah, ça ira, a famous song sung by French revolutionaries.
- July 26, 2024 23:36The ceremony has reached the Notre Dame!
- July 26, 2024 23:35Who is that mysterious torch bearer?
- July 26, 2024 23:33Canada represented by Maude Charron and Andre de Grasse!
- July 26, 2024 23:32The Olympic torch with a few icons from the French pop culture!
- July 26, 2024 23:23Jonathan Selvaraj, our reporter in Paris, writes...
Paris Olympics 2024: In ambitious Opening Ceremony, Indians eagerly partake, one way or another
It’s not just the Tokyo Games that Paris differs from; it’s from anything before it too. Never before in the 128-year-old history of the modern Olympiad has there been such an ambitious celebration. Rather than a parade inside a stadium, around 6000 athletes sailed in a flotilla of 94 boats down Paris’ iconic Seine River.
- July 26, 2024 23:20Lady Gaga, the first performer of the day!
The superstar is rendering the French classic Mon truc en plumes by Zizi Jeanmaire at the Grand Palais.
- July 26, 2024 23:17Here is a look at the flag bearers for some of the 205 countries taking part.
India: Two-time Olympic medallist and badminton star P.V. Sindhu and table tennis player Sharath Kamal.
Britain: Helen Glover, rowing (two-time gold medalist in the coxless pair) and Tom Daley, diving (Tokyo gold medalist in 10-meter synchronized diving and owner of three Olympic bronzes)
Canada: Maude Charron, weightlifting (Tokyo gold medalist in the 64-kilogram category) and Andre de Grasse, athletics (Tokyo gold medalist at 200 meters)
China: Ma Long, table tennis (five-time gold medalist) and Feng Yu, artistic swimming
Eritrea: Biniam Girmay, cycling (first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage) and Christina Rach, swimming (16 years old)
France: Melina Robert-Michon, athletics (discus), Florent Manaudou, swimming (London gold medalist in the 50-meter freestyle and three-time Olympic silver medalist)
Greece: Antigoni Ntrismpioti, athletics (race walker) and Giannis Antetokounmpo, basketball (two-time NBA MVP, 2021 NBA champion with the Milwaukee Bucks)
Puerto Rico: Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, athletics (Tokyo gold medalist in the 100-meter hurdles) and Sebastian Rivera, wrestling
Qatar: Shahd Ashraf, athletics (women’s 100 meters) and Mutaz Barshim, athletics (Tokyo co-gold medalist in the high jump with Gianmarco Tamberi, who is one of Italy’s flag bearers)
Refugee Team: Yahya Al Ghotany, taekwondo (born in Syria) and Cindy Ngamba, boxing (born in Cameroon)
Ukraine: Elina Svitolina, tennis (Tokyo bronze medalist in women’s singles and three-time Grand Slam semifinalist) and Mykhailo Romanchuk, swimmer (Tokyo silver medalist in the 1,500-meter freestyle and bronze medalist in the 800-meter freestyle)
United States: Coco Gauff, tennis (U.S. Open singles champion, French Open champion doubles champion) and LeBron James, basketball (four-time NBA MVP, four-time NBA champion, career scoring leader).
Credit - AP
- July 26, 2024 23:15What a sight at the Pont d’Austerlitz!
- July 26, 2024 23:14In case you’re wondering..
All the NOCs (National Olympic Committees) are coming through in French alphabetical order. Australia and the United States though, will parade at the end, just ahead of the hosts France!
- July 26, 2024 23:11The parade of nations commences!
The first country represented in the parade is Greece followed by the 37-member Refugee Olympic Team.
- July 26, 2024 23:05It’s time for Paris 2024!
The ceremony begins with a montage of French football legend Zinedine Zidane carrying the Olympic flame.
France President Emmanuel Macron and IOC President Thomas Bach present at the Trocadero which will be last destination of the river parade.
- July 26, 2024 22:52Chef de Mission Garang Narang with his thoughts....
It’s an absolute honour. New kind of feeling for the first timers [in the opening ceremony],” says Narang.
“We have put in our best. We have done what we could. Now its upto the athletes to do their best,” he adds.
- July 26, 2024 22:47Bienvenue a Paris!
- July 26, 2024 22:27An outdoor Opening Ceremony for the first time in history!
- July 26, 2024 22:17India’s flagbearers for today share their thoughts
“It’s a great recognition from the IOA to have chosen me. I have visualised this moment for a very long time,” says India’s flag bearer Achanta Sharath Kamal
‘It’s not every year this happens. Everybody wants a medal. Everybody plays their best at the Olympics...they will be at their best,” reckons the co-flag bearer P.V. Sindhu
“People always ask that [three consecutive medals]. I take it very positively. ‘Why can’t I do it?’,” Sindhu adds.
- July 26, 2024 22:06Where is the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony taking place?
The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony will take place on the Seine river in Paris. The final event will take place at the Trocadero gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower.
- July 26, 2024 21:56The Indian athletes all decked up ahead of the ceremony!
- July 26, 2024 21:45News!
Don’t be shocked if you don’t spot members of the Indian men’s hockey team during the Opening Ceremony. The team has decided to focus on its opening group stage encounter against New Zealand which is set to start in under 24 hours from now.
Check out the hockey opener preview below:
Clinch gold, make it memorable: The Indian hockey team has its priority clear for Paris Olympics 2024 - July 26, 2024 21:38Not long to go to kickstart the biggest sporting extravaganza!
- July 26, 2024 21:29LIVE STREAMING INFO
Where to watch the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony?
The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony will be telecast live on Sports18 and Sports18 HD. The live streaming of the same will also be available on JioCinema.
What time will the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony start?
The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony will start at 11 PM IST.
- July 26, 2024 21:26Stay Tuned!!
Welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony. Stay tuned for live updates and news from the event which is set to begin at the Austerlitz bridge.
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