Lthe olympic games are about to begin and the final details are already being finalized for what will be its opening ceremony that will officially mark the start of sports in the City of Light.
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Paris will host the many competitions in which all the national delegations will compete for Olympic gold. It will also mark a historic event with its opening ceremony next Friday.
The first outside a stadium
The 2024 Olympics will be the first to be inaugurated outside a stadium. Normally, each delegation is introduced with a lap of honour in a stadium where fans can see the athletes waving the emblems and flags of each country. However, This time, the Seine River will take center stage as the chosen route for the sport to take over the entire city.
The ceremony will begin on Friday at 12:30 pm Colombian time. The event is scheduled to last more than three hours, with athletes passing through the most iconic places in Paris. Sports fans will be able to watch the many presentations on the banks of the river for free.
The athletes’ journey
The places that will be visited during the parade that will leave from the Austerlitz bridge will be Notre Dame, The Louvre museum and various sports locations while enjoying the Parisian night.
View of the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre Museum, which has become one of the undisputed icons of France, as well as its capital.
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The tour will end in front of the Eiffel Tower which has the Olympic rings on display and where the starting protocols will be carried out and the Olympic flame will be lit to officially begin the competitions.
One hundred boats will be present at the event with around 10,500 athletes spread across 206 National Olympic Committees. During the ceremony, 3,000 artists, including dancers and musicians, will be on stage to accompany the athletes at the start of the Olympic event.
Colombia at the 2024 Paris Olympics
The athletes who will represent Colombia will be 90 who will also enjoy the iconic parade along the Sena. It is known that Those who will carry the tricolor flag will be Flor Denis Ruíz Hurtado and Kevin Santiago Quintero ChavarroThe two athletes will compete in javelin throw and track cycling, respectively.
Flor Denis Ruiz.
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Colombia will seek to surpass the 5 medals it won in the previous edition of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This time, there will be more women than men representing the country in the sporting events and they will try to make the Colombian anthem sound from the speakers of the sports venues in Paris.
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