Paris 2024 organisers hail 'dream' opening ceremony

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The organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games' opening ceremony on Friday (July 26) night were pleased with the way the event unfolded on the Seine. They said despite the rainy weather, the event was beautiful and looked exactly what they dreamed of.

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00:00We are very happy. It was a very beautiful ceremony that looked exactly like what we dreamed of.
00:10We have been working hard for years to honor France, the Olympic Games, the athletes.
00:17We wanted to offer a completely new ceremony, a first in the history of a stadium on the Seine.
00:24A ceremony with a lot of audacity, with a lot of messages, with beautiful surprises,
00:30whether it's in the music, whether it's in the light, whether it's on the basin and the honor of the athletes.
00:36So yes, I am very happy. I would really like to congratulate all the teams that worked,
00:42because it was an incredible team that was able to overcome challenges.
00:46Until the last moment, with the rain, the artists fought to put energy, it was beautiful.
00:52We held on well in this moment of difficulty, we held on well until the end.
00:59And we are very happy to launch the Paris 2024 Games in this way.
01:03I think that first of all, the idea, in an Olympic ceremony, there are necessarily two hymns.
01:08There is the anthem of the country and the Olympic anthem.
01:11But in France, we are also lucky to have the hymn to love, sung by Edith Piaf,
01:15in any case written and interpreted by Edith Piaf.
01:18We wanted this third hymn in the ceremony.
01:21And with the team that surrounds us, we wondered who was the greatest singer who could sing love so well.
01:29And it's CĂ©line Dion. In any case, it is this name that we all agreed on.
01:34So we simply offered her this concept, this idea, to close on the flight of the basin,
01:41to hear the hymn to love. And I think that's what seduced her.
01:48Which means to adapt, to adapt a lot of things, to adapt where it was dangerous for some artists.
01:55Some roof, for example. And we had to do these kind of things.
01:59But without losing, I think, the concept, without losing the spirit and without losing any ambition.
02:06This is what we are trying to do since day one.
02:10I think each country has to take its risk to offer the most beautiful ceremony.
02:18A ceremony in the stadium, it can be very beautiful too.
02:22And we wanted to do a ceremony out of a stadium to honor Paris.
02:27We saw this Eiffel Tower, in particular, as we had never seen it before.
02:32And it was important for us to rely on this city of Paris that makes the whole world dream.
02:38And that was very beautiful tonight.

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