Olympics Opening Ceremony Review: Paris’ Lengthy Spectacle On The Seine Lost In Translation On The Small Screen

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The skies over a soaked Paris remained overcast for Friday’s 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony as the promised trés unique spectacle on the River Seine proved rudderless despite some superstars, a historical mixtape, and a grande balançoire or two. #ParisOlympicsCeremony

Despite the grand scale of the Paris Olympics Ceremony, landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Louvre were impressive. However, the ceremony simply wasn’t great TV. The spectacle didn’t translate well on the small screen.

Even with the rain pouring down, things improved once darkness fell over the City of Lights. More of the drama of Paris and the river became visible as night set in. Performers came alive as the barge-propelled parade of nations and their 205 delegations ended.

In the end as Celine Dion made her much-hyped and pitch-perfect appearance under the Olympic rings on the sparkling Eiffel Tower and past Gold medalist Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec lit the cauldron, it felt like viewers had been forced to run a four-hour marathon. #ParisOlympicsCeremony

The hooded horse rider bringing the Olympic flag across the Seine and into the recently constructed Trocadéro Stadium certainly was a true showstopper. Still, ever followed by legends like Serena Williams, Nadia Comăneci, Carl Lewis and Rafael Nadal, that final evocative display on the tower that engineer Gustave Eiffel started in 1887 wouldn’t have been out of place at the conclusion of any stadium rock show of the past 20 years.

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