July 23 (UPI) — The long-anticipated opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics launched Friday with an athletes’ parade aboard dozens of vessels in a flotilla along the river Seine and a performance by pop superstar Lady Gaga.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined the banks of the waterway amid a steady rain to cheer on the athletes as they passed on specially equipped boats en route to the Trocadero in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
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