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  • 7/27/2024
The Malaysian contingent was the 112th in the order to cruise along the 6km stretch of River Seine during the Paris Olympic Games' opening ceremony on Friday (July 26) night.

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00:00The Malaysian contingent was the 112th in the order to cruise along the 6km stretch
00:08of River Seine at the Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday night.
00:13The six athletes and four officials who represented the contingent in the parade were clad in
00:17olive green with golden motifs, Baju Melayu Teluk Belanga paired with Songkok and Sampin
00:23and Baju Kurung.
00:24They cruised in boat number 45 together with Malawi and the Maldives.
00:29Paddle diver Bertrand Roddick-Lysis and sailor Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif were the flag bearers
00:34for Malaysia.
00:35The other athletes were Nur Dabita Sabri, Khairul Nizam Mohamad Effendi, Ashley Lau
00:40and Tan Ro Shin accompanied by both the chef de mission and his deputy and two other officials.
00:46A total of 205 nations and regions took part in the parade with Greece being the first
00:51and the hosting nation, France, coming in last.
00:55Paris is hosting the Olympics for the third time, having previously done so in 1900 and 1924.
01:01For the first time in Olympics history, the opening ceremony was held outside the confines
01:05of a stadium in the heart of Paris, watched by some 300,000 people and millions more via live telecast.

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