2024-08-29 09:37:34
The opening ceremony was held for the first time outside the Place de la Concorde stadium, kicking off the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in the most beautiful way possible. 168 delegations marched around Paris’ largest square, which was transformed for one night into a grand open-air stage. Paralyzed athletes walked around the Obelisk from the base of the Champs Elysées, discovering a majestic setting where they could be seen by the world. At the end of the ceremony, the Paralympic flame was relit and returned to the skies over Paris.
Alexander Ekmanthe artistic director and choreographer of this opening ceremony, by Thomas JollyThe artistic director of the Paris 2024 Olympic Ceremony has brought together 500 artists, including more than 140 dancers and 16 performers with disabilities. The Place de la Concorde has been transformed into a scene setting, created by Bruno Delavernelleaims to provide a new perspective on this traditional Parisian highland and highlight the body sublimated by the clothing of young designers Louis Gabriel Noone. Victor le Masne (Musical Direction and Original Composition) for the music and Thomas de Chandon (Light Creations) also lent their talents to this unforgettable evening, with 15,000 spectators gathering at the base of the Champs Elysées and 35,000 around the Place. Five art paintings emerged one after another, conveying a strong and poetic message about inclusivity and the place of disabled people in society.
After the athletes’ parade, two French disabled athletes took the oath: Sandrine MartinetRio 2016 French Paralympic Judo Champion and three-time bronze medalist Arnold AssoumaniFrench long jump champion at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, winning silver medals twice and bronze medals twice. John McFaulAs a Paralympian and the first disabled astronaut to join the European Space Agency, he brought the Paralympic flag to the Place de la Concorde, alongside Damian SeguinFrench skipper, three-time Paralympic medalist and the first Paralympic athlete to sail solo around the world, placed seventh in the 2020-2021 Vendée Globe.
Several artists take turns on stage setting liturgical elements and artistic sequences to the music, all under the direction of Victor le Masne, composer and musical director of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, an academy of young instrumentalists and musicians Accompanied by Ensemble Matheus.
first the pianist cold gonzalesVictor le Masne, with whom he has collaborated extensively in the past, accompanied the introductory passage of the ceremony on piano in an original composition called “Countdown” to illustrate Alexander Ekman performs on a stage composed of numerous grand pianos surrounded by dancers. kristen and the queensThe internationally recognized French artist then rereads Edith Piaf’s “non, je ne pleasurete rien”, arranged by Victor Lemasna in a blown, jerky version punctuated by breaths.
worldThe new head of Ed Banger’s team then began playing music for the athletes’ procession around the Obelisk of Place de la Concorde, including St Germain’s “So flute”, St Germain’s ” Quand je gauche” and other iconic songs. Julian Clerk and “La Valse d’Amélie Poulain” by Yann Tiersen. lucky love An original and dedicated composition of “My Ability” was performed, accompanied by a gospel choir. Luann Pommier Jazz and lyrical Paralympic songs were then played on the piano. Music accompanies the Paralympic flame as it reaches the base of the Champs Elysées Sebastian Tellierhe performed his famous composition “La Ritournelle”.
Twelve French and international Paralympic champions held the flame aloft until the vasque took off, with choreography to Ravel’s Bolero interspersed with more digital arrangements.
This is Florent ManadoThe flag bearer of the French delegation and a double bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, he carried the torch to the Place de la Concorde and passed it to Michael JeremiahWheelchair tennis champion at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games and current leader of the French delegation at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.
Paris 2024 then decided to pay tribute to three Paralympic legends who will defend their flag at the Games, celebrating champions from all over the world: Italian Paralympic Fencers baby sawTwo-time Tokyo Olympic champion and four-time medalist from the United States Oksana Masters17 medals at the Paralympic Games in four different Paralympic sports (cross-country skiing, biathlon, cycling and rowing), the last Marcus Rem : German disability track and field icon and three-time Paralympic long jump champion.
Subsequently, the French Parasport Association selected three heavyweight contestants. Tony EstengatePresident of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, delivering the Paralympic torch in the Tuileries Garden: Asia El HannuniThe most successful athlete in French para-athletics with eight titles, including a quadruple title in Athens in 2004, Christian LashawHe is the most successful French para-athlete at the Paralympic Games, winning a total of 10 gold medals and 14 medals in wheelchair fencing. Beatrice HessFrance’s most successful and decorated athlete, with a total of 26 medals at the Olympic, Paralympic, Summer and Winter Olympics, including 20 championship titles.
At the end of the Paralympic Torch Relay, 12 torches traveled through every region of mainland France in four days in front of 600,000 spectators until they converged in Paris at the same time, and the last five torchbearers from France lit the Paris Basque. church. Alexis Hunkampton2021 Tokyo Paralympic Triathlon Champion; Nantian Ning Qingtai2016 Rio Paralympics Para Track and Field 400m Champion, four-time overall medal winner; Charles Antoine CuacuDefending champion of the 400m in the track and field T20 category at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games; Elodie LolandiThe most decorated active athlete with seven medals in para swimming, including the 2012 London 400m freestyle title Fabian RamiroHe is the most successful French athlete on the Paris 2024 Olympic team, having won Paralympic table tennis gold medals four times and medals six times.
Around the basin where the Vasque is imagined by Mathieu Lehanneur, 51 aircraft carriers selected by Paris 2024 senior partner EDF gathered together, accompanied by fire. In fact, it is thanks to EDF, senior partner of Paris 2024, that the Paralympic flame is burning without fuel. The Paralympic Flame is an elaborate combination of clouds of mist and beams of light, with electricity as its sole energy source.
The Paralympic Opening Ceremony concluded with the sounds of “Born to Be Human,” reimagined by Victor Le Masne and performed by Christine and the Queens, while the Concorde The square becomes a giant canvas as the dancers complete their final colorful and creative work.
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