Lupin! ‘Les Misérables’! Notre Dame! Here’s everything to look for during the Opening Ceremonies broadcast.
Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later.It may be tough to catch every nod to a book, character, painting or song during the event, which featured a floating parade on the Seine culminating in a celebration near the Eiffel Tower.The Flame is here! Are you ready for this 6km celebration of sport along the iconic River Seine? 🌉 and then continued with synchronicity, liberty and equality.
The event opened with the first 18 delegations sailing on five boats through a water curtain on the Pont d’Austerlitz bridge.A fresco adorning the bridge depicted the sports on the Olympic program for these Games as well as several masks,During the Opening Ceremonies, the athletes paraded past characters with enormous heads sitting on walls along the banks of the Seine. The colorful, mascot-like characters were a tribute to the French tradition of caricature.
, which is expected to reopen to the public in December. The workers along the scaffolding were w a nod to the, a tribute to the people of Paris and their energy. And that figure in the sky clinging to the spire of Notre Dame? That was a nod to, the last queen of France before the French Revolution, who was beheaded in 1793. An opera singer accompanied by French heavy metal band, the famed museum at the heart of Paris.
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