While cities host the Olympic Games to showcase their community, locals leverage the heightened media attention for other reasons some good, some not so good. It is on this landscape in which the organizers plotted the most public of Opening Ceremonies for the Paris 2024 Games. Will they regret it? Heres an update from insidethegames: <\/p>\n
If France is hit again by extremist attacks or a security crisis in the run-up to the 2024 Olympics, the huge opening ceremony Paris plans to hold on the banks of the Seine could be postponed, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. <\/p>\n
Security, involving tens of thousands of police and soldiers, will be tight: athletes will be paraded in boats on the Seine through the heart of the French capital in the first Summer Games opening ceremony to be held outside the usual stadium setting. Hundreds of thousands of spectators will fill both banks of the river. <\/p>\n
We are preparing a unique opening ceremony that I hope will make the French very proud, Macron told France 5. <\/p>\n
It will be a moment of beauty, true art, a celebration of sport and our values, with the Seine and the capital as the theatre, he added. He did say, however, that the plans could be revised for security reasons. Full report <\/p>\n
Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Program*: Mens One Person Dinghy ILCA 7 (41) Womens One Person Dinghy ILCA 6 (41) Mixed Two Person Dinghy 470 (19) Mens Skiff 49er (20) Womens Skiff 49erFX (20) Mens Kiteboard Formula Kite Class (20) Womens Kiteboard Formula Kite Class (20) Mens Windsurfing iQFoil (24) Womens Windsurfing iQFoil (24) Mixed Multihull Nacra 17 (19) * Quota per event in parenthesis but does not include Universality Places (2 men, 2 women) <\/p>\n
Venue: Marseille, France Dates: July 28-August 9 <\/p>\n
Details: Paris website: https:\/\/www.paris2024.org\/en\/the-olympic-games-paris-2024\/<\/a> World Sailing microsite: https:\/\/paris2024.sailing.org\/<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read the original here:<\/p>\n Paris 2024: Will they regret it? >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News - Scuttlebutt Sailing News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While cities host the Olympic Games to showcase their community, locals leverage the heightened media attention for other reasons some good, some not so good. It is on this landscape in which the organizers plotted the most public of Opening Ceremonies for the Paris 2024 Games. Will they regret it? Continue reading