However in a touch of what might come on the ceremony, a Reuters reporter noticed pop celebrity Girl Gaga rehearsing on Friday on the coronary heart of Paris, singing “Mon truc en plumes” (My factor made from feathers), a basic Twentieth-century French cabaret track.
Amid rumours that Canadian singer Celine Dion is also a part of the present, spectator Chantal Beauvais mentioned it might be “magical” to observe her.
Will probably be the primary time that a gap ceremony has taken place exterior a stadium.
GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS
Some 45,000 police and 1000’s of troopers have been deployed in an enormous safety operation in Paris for the opening present.
For the reason that final Video games – the Winter Olympics held in Beijing in 2022 – wars have erupted in Ukraine and Gaza, offering a tense worldwide backdrop. France is at its highest degree of safety, although officers have repeatedly mentioned there isn’t a particular menace to the opening ceremony or the Video games.