The biggest sports event has started with fanfare, the Olympics returned to Paris after 100 years, the medal race has started with the opening ceremony, the football matches have already started. Athletes from all over the world turned to the host city, the Olympic Village was also fully populated.
Paris is in the mood for celebration, the organizers have finalized the preparations, the athletes are eager to prove their superiority in various sports. The tightest security arrangements have been made during the Olympic Games, France has contacted Europol and the UK Home Office for extraordinary arrangements, drones will conduct continuous aerial surveillance, sea lanes have also been barricaded. So that no one can enter the country illegally even through small boats.
Surface-to-air missiles have been installed by the United Kingdom for air security, before the games, the Paris police had done all kinds of full-dress rehearsals, including bomb disposal, some such arrangements. At last year’s Rugby World Cup held in France, the number of participants in the opening ceremony was halved due to security reasons, instead of 60, 30,000 people enjoyed the event along the Seine River.
This is the second time that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has been held outside a stadium, the first being at the 2018 Youth Olympics. This time there was a boat parade in the river Seine, during which the troops of all the countries scheduled for the Olympics also paraded, the local culture was highlighted along the 6 km parade route, artists and athletes celebrated together in the opening ceremony, the opening And the director of both closing ceremonies is Thomas Jolly, himself an actor and stage director.
The Paris Olympics will feature 329 events across 32 sports, 28 of which are core sports that were part of the 2016 and 2020 Games, 4 added by the Paris organizers,
Breakdancing will make its Olympic debut, while skateboarding, climbing and surfing return after 2020. 4 weightlifting events were eliminated, 2 canoeing sprint events were replaced by slalom, keeping the total number of events at 16.
Before the event, the doping issue of the Chinese athletes was overshadowed. The International Olympic Committee accepted the position given by the officials and allowed these athletes to participate in the games. This was also objected by the athletes of some countries. , English swimmers even said they should get a ‘level playing field’.
The closing ceremony of the Olympic Games will take place on August 11 at the Stade de France, which will be titled ‘Records’, and will feature over 100 foreign performers, including dancers and circus artists, at the same event that will host the 2028 Olympics. Los Angeles will also have cultural representation, being given the Games torch.
