The Paris Olympics’ opening act: A rugby party for 70,000. ... Though the opening match ended in a 12-12 draw against a young U.S. squad, it had the feel of a party, ...

Roughly 94 boats, one for each national delegation, will parade along the river as the ceremony's opening act. After the boat parade, the Olympic protocols — which have been in place for 124 ...

And that's a wrap. With the incredible performance from Céline Dion, that closes out the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The ceremony was promised to be ambitious, and it certainly was.

The opening ceremonies begin today. Host Ava Wallace talks with Washington Post foreign correspondents covering the Olympics about how the years-long preparations for the Games have changed ...

For the first time in Olympic history, the opening ceremony took place outside of a stadium. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, nearly 7,000 athletes floated down the Seine River on 85 boats.

That’s despite the soggy weather — no other Summer Olympics opening ceremony has had rain since Helsinki in 1952. Paris organizers said 6,800 of the 10,500 athletes would attend before they ...

The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics is sure to be a spectacle to behold. ... President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that French singer Aya Nakamura will be among the show’s lineup of acts.

The Parade of Nations and the larger opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics will air on NBC beginning at noon ET. It will re-air in primetime beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.

One of the organizers of Paris’s 2024 opening ceremony said recently that Goude’s 1989 parade was a major inspiration for Friday’s celebrations: an anti-national festival that rolled all of ...