The games will officially start on the 26th of July until the 11th of August.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00A steady stream of athletes and support staff has started flowing through arrival terminals
00:06at Paris airports as the Olympic Games opening ceremony looms even closer.
00:11Maria Luisa Calderon, a fencer from Peru, has travelled to the French capital to take
00:16part in her third Olympiad, this time as her country's flag bearer.
00:21She couldn't be more excited.
00:22It's a dream come true, of course, we train so much for this, I've been doing my sport
00:32for 28 years, so yeah, this is going to be my third Olympic Games and I'm so excited
00:39to just begin, you know.
00:46A seasoned British athlete Kirsty Gilmore has a few tricks up her sleeve to ease the
00:50stress as she waits at the Olympic Village for her first badminton match.
00:56I brought my pillow from home, I brought a little candle from home, just trying to make
01:00it feel a bit more home-like and not a kind of, yeah, separate, very strict Olympic Village,
01:07so trying to make it a little bit comfy.
01:09The Games will officially start on the 26th of July.