Paris Olympics Opens With Rain-Soaked Star-Studded Ceremony
The Eiffel Tower and lasers lighting up the sky, during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26.
Photographer: Cheng Min/AFP/Getty Images
PARIS (AP) — The Paris Olympics' opening ceremony got underway after a rough start to the Summer Games on Friday, with rainy skies over the Seine and suspected acts of sabotage targeting France’s flagship high-speed rail network.
French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane kicked off the opening ceremony with the Olympic flame in his hands. In a prerecorded video, he’s seen running and weaving through a Parisian traffic jam before he delivers the flame to a group of children on the metro who then make their way through the Catacombs and to a boat, at which point the broadcast switched to a real-time view of the Seine River.