The Olympic Games are over. The Olympic Flag was handed over Sunday to Simone Biles and Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, the host city for the 2028 Olympic Games. After 16 days of thrilling events, and a star-studded closing ceremony held in France’s national stadium and also projected from Long Beach in Southern California, the French capital has handed over hosting duties for the Summer Games to the next city in line: Los Angeles in 2028. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeHFbfSbCM Evidently attempting to show that surpassing Paris isn’t mission impossible, Los Angeles rolled out a skydiving Tom Cruise, Grammy winner Billie…
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The 2024 Paris Olympics are finally coming to a close this weekend. On August 11, the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games will bring to a conclusion 17 historic days of sporting feats and festivities in France. The event will include traditional elements, such as: The parade of athletes The thanking of the 45,000 volunteers The medal ceremony for the women’s marathon The extinguishing of the Olympic flame, which will be brought from Tuileries, where the cauldron has been on display and visited by tens of thousands of fans The proclamation of the end of the Olympic Games, made by the President…
Some of the most amazing Olympic closing ceremonies 🎥Olympics.com After more than two weeks of action-packed sport, Paris is preparing for the 2024 Olympics closing ceremony, which takes place on Sunday, 11 August and is being held at the Stade de France, starting at 20:00 BST and finishing at 22:30. Thomas Jolly, the artistic director who brought us CĂ©line Dion singing Edith Piaf’s classic, L’Hymne Ă l’Amour halfway up the Eiffel Tower at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, is also heading the Closing Ceremony. To get an insight into how past Olympic Games closing ceremonies have panned out, here’s…
Course des cafĂ©s 📸JosĂ©phine Brueder/ Ville deParis Waiters and waitresses take on the challenge of walking two kilometres through the streets of Paris and finishing first without dropping anything from their tray. After a decade-long absence, the iconic “Course des Café” (“CafĂ© Race”), formerly known as the “Waiters’ Race”, returned to the heart of Paris on March 24. While the name has been updated for inclusivity, the essence of the event remains unchanged. This revival, however, has a dual purpose: to combat plastic waste and to celebrate the art of service in the midst of a bustling cafĂ© scene. Course…
Paris 2024: Nigeria’s D’Tigress beat world numbers 3 (Australia) and 5 (Canada) to reach the Olympic basketball quarter finals Nigera’s D’Tigress made history as the first African basketball team to reach the quarter finals of an Olympic basketball tournament, beating world number 3 Australia (75-62) and world number 5 Canada (79-70) to reach the qualifying stage. Fully and proudly kitted by Ugo Udezue’s AFA Sports, D’Tigress are now incredibly ranked number 12 in the world! 100-metre Olympic gold winner, Julien Alfred 📸 Getty Images/ Cameron Spencer Next, from the small Caribbean island of St. Lucia, 23-year old Julien Alfred clinched…
Olympian, Allyson Felix – Co-Founder, Saysh Olympic star Allyson Felix headed to Paris fist week of July 2024 – not to compete on the track as she did for the last 20+ years, but to launch the Olympic Village’s inaugural nursery to support parent athletes, in partnership with Pampers. The most decorated Olympian in track and field athlete in Olympic history (with 11 medals), Felix traveled to Paris with her family of four, and she has an interesting entrepreneurial story. Her company, Saysh, founded in 2021, just weeks before her Olympic performance in Tokyo, was the result of a very…
Simone Biles 📸 2024 Getty Images Simone Biles has just led the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to Olympic gold at Paris 2024. If Biles never competed again, her legacy would be secure as the greatest. With seven Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast of all time. Five skills are named after her. Her triple-double in her floor routine is the only “J” rated skill in women’s gymnastics, earning her an entire additional point for its difficulty. Led by Simone Biles, Team USA gets the Women’s Olympic gymnastics gold at Paris 2024 📸Naomi Baker/ Getty Images…
Grand Slam tennis champion Coco Gauff (USA), men’s basketball stars LeBron James (USA) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece), and sprinter Tobi Amusan (Nigeria) were among the flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday 26 July. This Olympic Games saw the best part of 10,500 athletes paraded along the river Seine in the French capital, with the six-kilometre route ending in front of the TrocadĂ©ro. See the full list of flag bearers for some of the 205 teams that took part in the opening ceremony: NationMale flagbearerFemale flagbearerAlgeriaYasser Triki (Athletics)Amina Belhadi (Judo)AustraliaEddie Ockenden (Hockey)Jessica Fox (Canoe Slalom)AustriaFelix Oschmautz (Canoe Slalom)Michaela Polleres (Judo)BahamasSteven Gardiner (Athletics)Devynne Charlton (Athletics)BelgiumJĂ©rĂ´me GuĂ©ry (Equestrian)Emma Meesseman (Basketball)BrazilIsaquias Queiroz…
The ‘comeback kid’ – Celine Dion’s grit and talent transport her to centre-stage at Paris 2024 Olympics 🎥FranceTV Iconic chanteuse, CĂ©line Dion, delivered a jaw-dropping performance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday (July 26, 2024). Standing on the balcony of a sparkling Eiffel Tower (with the Olympic rings affixed to its iron sides), and dressed a stunning silver Dior gown, Ms. Dion flawlessly belted out an emotional rendition of Édith Piaf’s 1950 track, L’Hymne Ă l’amour (Hymn of Love) to more than 300,000 spectators, including an estimated 6,800 athletes – in an incredible comeback from illness.…
A sports fan supporting her team 📸 Guillaume Bontemps/Ville de Paris After two and a half months of traveling across France, the Olympic Flame made its grand return to Paris on July 26 for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. To fully experience the beginning of the Olympic festivities, the City of Paris is opening 26 festivity sites throughout the city (in each Parisian arrondissement, except for the 7th), providing for Parisians and visitors a unique opportunity to fully enjoy this exceptional evening and watch the opening ceremony live! All the sites remain open for the duration of the…