City on high alert as security is beefed up ahead of what promises to be a spectacular opening ceremony … if it all goes to plan.
Olympics organisers have promised the greatest opening ceremony ever staged despite a heightened security environment as Paris prepares a gala celebration to dazzle the world for the third Games in its history.
Men’s hockey captain Eddie Ockenden, in his fifth Olympics, and French-born canoe slalom star Jessica Fox Celine Dion and Lady Gaga are among the stars to have arrived in Paris before an Olympic opening ceremony expected to match that of London 2012. Dion, 56, who has not performed live since March 2020 because of stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, is expected to make a comeback at the ceremony.
“This opening ceremony is the most extraordinary thing a country can do,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told BFM television on Wednesday, adding: “As you know, in the current context of geopolitics and terrorism, it’s an enormous challenge.”
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