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2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony is an interminable washout – review

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Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery

The immaculate execution of Tokyo’s Olympic opening ceremony was always going to be a tough act to follow. Paris made the canny decision not...

Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony: a high-kitsch, riverside spectacle

The Paris Olympic Games opened on Friday night with a high-kitsch, riverside spectacle, as an armada of boats carried athletes along the Seine, dancers...

Paris 2024 welcomes the world in ground-breaking Opening Ceremony on the Seine

Six kilometres, 85 boats: The first Parade of Nations on a river Emerging from behind a row of pink feathered fans and dressed fit for...

Fans rave as Celine Dion and a FLYING cauldron save washout Paris Olympics opening ceremony: Torrential rain, a ‘naked Smurf’, an upside down flag...

Celine Dion saved the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics last night as she made a triumphant return to stage for the first time...

Singing, spectacle and subplots on the Seine in the rain

1. It rained … a lot“Jeux pluvieux, jeux heureux,” suggested the TV commentators, in mild desperation: a rainy Games is a happy Games. Four...

Olympic flag raised upside down in opening ceremony blunder

It had otherwise been an opening ceremony like no other as athletes...

Paris 2024 Olympics: Celine Dion’s comeback brings new emotion to real-life, tragic love between an athlete and France’s most famous singer

“If the sky should fall into the sea, and the stars fade all around me …” so begins France’s most famous song about love:...

Olympic flag raised upside down at end of rain-soaked opening ceremony

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Jasper fire: Canadians mourn as jewel of the Rockies burns

Getty ImagesTears welled in Tasha Porttin's eyes as she reminisced on the sheer beauty of the place she's called home for 10 years. Jasper's...

Celine Dion Makes Comeback At Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony With Stunning Live Performance Of Edith Piaf’s ‘Hymn To Love’

Celine Dion overcame the challenge of stiff person syndrome at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday to give her first live...

JD Vance defends ‘childless cat ladies’ comment after backlash

Getty ImagesOn Friday, Mr Vance said: “I wish her step-children and Kamala Harris and her whole family the very best. The point is not...

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