2024-03-11 19:23:21
Expected on the Seine, the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be orchestrated from 7:30 p.m. – French time – on the evening of July 26, for a duration of approximately three hours.
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LLast week, the Paris 2024 Games Organizing Committee (COJO) took advantage of the final visit of the Coordination Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to specify the time frame of the Opening Ceremony.
Less than 140 days before the latter, the organizers have announced that the show inaugural summer Games would take shape as soon as 7:30 p.m on the evening of Friday July 26, 2024.
As Tony Estanguet, President of the OCOG, explained:
This week we were able to validate the start time of the Olympic Games Ceremony.
[…] This time was set to allow maximum use of natural outdoor light and still allow the Ceremony to end at night, to once once more enjoy the different atmospheres in the heart of the city of Paris..
All over the world, viewers will be able to follow the approximately three-hour event in front of their television sets or through various communication media.
Taking into account the time difference and with regard to previous or future Host Cities of the Games, the Ceremony will for example be broadcast from 1:30 a.m. in Beijing (China), 6:30 p.m. in London (United Kingdom), 2:30 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) , but also 2:30 a.m. in Tokyo (Japan), 10:30 a.m. in Los Angeles (California, United States), 3:30 a.m. in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), or 5:30 p.m. in Dakar (Senegal), host of the Youth Olympic Games in 2026.
With this announcement, the system surrounding the Opening Ceremony is becoming even more precise and refined week following week, while the first rehearsals are due to begin this month outside Paris.
Among the constituent elements of the upcoming Ceremony, the authorities have notably presented in recent days the diagram relating to the distribution of spectators between the low quays and the high quays of the Seine.
On July 26, some 104,000 spectators will be able to access the paying stands set up on the lower platforms, an almost unchanged figure compared to initial projections. On the other hand, with regard to the high quays of the river, the public authorities and the organizers have agreed on the reception of 222,000 spectators who will have previously received a formal invitation.
If the principle of free access for the high platforms remains, the authorities have in fact chosen a concept allowing filtering and better security of access.
Concretely, spectators authorized to join the festivities will benefit from an invitation issued by the services of the State, the Île-de-France Region, the Departmental Councils or the Ile-de-France cities associated with the Olympic event. The Sports Federations and the COJO will also be able to grant the precious keys according to terms and conditions that remain to be defined.
By the end of May, stakeholders must in any case send the authorities information relating to the people likely to be invited, knowing that some might in fine be excluded if any risk concerning them were to be identified for the sake of safety.
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