2024 Olympic Games Paris Opening Ceremony. In a year’s time, and after it has travelled thousands of kilometres, the torch will light the olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the next olympic games. On 26 july 2024, exactly one year from now, thousands of athletes will parade in boats along the seine, the river that flows through paris, in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators.

Relive the unique opening ceremony of the 2024 paris olympics, which took place away from a stadium and down the banks of the river seine. The opening ceremony for the 2024 olympic games, held almost entirely along paris’s river seine, promises to be the most spectacular ever attempted — but it brings with it.