A full moon rises behind the Olympic rings hanging from the Eiffel Tower, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France. The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is Friday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
The Paris Olympics 2024 will officially open the Summer Games with an elaborate opening ceremony on July 26 (July 27, Manila time) in Paris France.
The Team Philippines will be among those joining the Parade of Nations. The Filipino athletes will be led by Tokyo Olympics silver medalists Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam, who are the designated flag bearers.
SCHEDULE: Team Philippines at Paris Olympics 2024
In the Philippines, official broadcasters Cignal TV/One Sports Digital will carry the opening ceremony scheduled for 1:30am on its Facebook & YouTube accounts, free-to-air channel One Sports, One Sports+ and Cignal TV Pop-up channels 1 & 2 on cable TV, and Pilipinas Live via streaming.
As PH flag bearers, Paalam, Petecio will join very iconic company
Boxers Nesthy Petecioand Carlo Paalam will be the Team Philippines’ flag bearers for the Paris Olympics 2024. —PDI FILE PHOTOS
When the Philippine delegation gets called to come out for the opening of the Paris Olympics 2024, Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam will continue what seems to be a recurring theme.
Paalam and Petecio will be tasked to carry the Philippine flag for the formal start of the Summer Games, adding themselves to the list of boxers who have done so in the country’s 100th year of participation.
The silver medalists in the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Games three years earlier are the sixth and seventh sluggers in recorded Olympic history to ever hold that responsibility for the country. FULL STORY
Paris braces for ‘most incredible’ Olympics opening ceremony
The United States’ Amarilees Bolorin, left, takes a selfie with a friend in front of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Thousands of athletes are set to sail through central Paris on Friday during an unprecedented and high-risk Olympics opening ceremony that will showcase the country’s hugely ambitious vision for the Games.
The parade on Friday evening will see up to 7,500 competitors travel down a six-kilometer (four-mile) stretch of the river Seine on a flotilla of 85 boats.
Compared to the COVID-blighted 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were delayed by a year and opened in an empty stadium, the Paris show will take place in front of 300,000 cheering spectators and an audience of VIPs and celebrities from around the world. FULL STORY
France blocks 1,000 suspected spies from Paris Olympics
FILE – A police officer walks past a Paris Olympics 2024 canvas Saturday, July 20, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, File)
PARIS — Three days before the start of the 2024 Olympics, France’s interior minister said about 1,000 people suspected of possibly meddling for a foreign power have been blocked from attending the Olympics — one of the security challenges that Paris is cracking down on in its goal to keep Games safe for athletes and fans.
About 1 million background checks have scrutinized Olympic volunteers, workers and others involved in the Games as well as those applying for passes to enter the most tightly controlled security zone in Paris — along the banks of the Seine — ahead of the opening ceremony on the river Friday. FULL STORY
Paris sets warm Olympics welcome – except for rats
This photograph taken on February 19, 2024, shows rats feed next to a pigeon, in Paris. —photo by Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse
PARIS, France — While the Paris Olympics is set to be a festival of socializing and intermingling, city authorities are keen for visitors not to encounter any of the capital’s notorious furry inhabitants.
Humorously portrayed in the hit animated film “Ratatouille,” the French capital’s abundant rat population is no joke for the city’s residents—and could be an embarrassment as the Olympics spotlight falls on Paris.
“All of the Olympic sites and celebration areas were analyzed (for rats) before the Games,” Deputy Mayor Anne-Claire Boux, who has responsibility for public health, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in an interview. FULL STORY
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