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World awaits formal opening of the 2024 Olympic Games

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K-9 units near Louvre Museum as the security perimeter for the opening ceremony is deployed ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics (Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)
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The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics will take place later this evening as the French capital becomes the first city to hold the Summer games for the third time.

Celine Dion and Lady Gaga – the former’s first performance since being diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) – are to perform on the River Seine to formally begin this year’s Games.

The opening ceremony overall will last up to almost four hours with the floating parade travelling down the river past the French capital’s most famous landmarks.

Prior to the opening of the ceremony attacks on the travel network sparked severe delays with some 800,000 passengers impacted as high-speed rail line SNCF asked travellers to “postpone their trip and not go to the station”.

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