The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony is underway after a rough start to the Summer Games, with suspected acts of sabotage targeting France's flagship high-speed rail network and rainy skies over the Seine river, where athletes are parading.
At 6-foot-9, U.S. flag bearer and NBA icon LeBron James is pretty easy to spot. And there are no shortage of Olympians trying to find him at the Paris Games.
'I want to take a picture with a few guys from tennis and from NBA — LeBron James and Steph Curry,' Angola handball player and flag bearer Azenaide Carlos said. Added Italian tennis player Sara Errani, when asked which athlete she wants to most meet: 'LeBron James. Why? I don’t think there’s any need to add a reason, but for sure because I am a big basketball fan.”
James was selected in a vote among Team USA’s captains. Other nations use different methods for choosing flag bearers; Australia chef de mission Anna Meares revealed her nation’s picks — canoe-kayak Olympic champion Jessica Fox and field hockey’s Eddie Ockenden — earlier this week, and said James having the same honor piqued even more interest in the flag bearer role.
'There's also a lot of excitement in the Australian team that LeBron James is their flagbearer,” Meares said.
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