2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony: Live updates as athletes arrive by boat, performers pay tribute to City of Light

2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony: Live updates as athletes arrive by boat, performers pay tribute to City of Light

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Team Costa Rica, Team Republic of Korea and Team Cook Islands are seen on a boat waving their flags along the River Seine during the athletes’ parade near the Supreme Court during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Team Costa Rica, Team Republic of Korea and Team Cook Islands are seen on a boat waving their flags along the River Seine during the athletes’ parade near the Supreme Court during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

After a high-energy performance of the cancan, a masked person running across roofs and surfaces through the city carrying a torch briefly stole the show. The individual passed dancers in rags before they broke out in a performance of a song from Les Misérables, a musical that covers the history of France. The identity of the person wearing the mask has not yet been revealed.

Later, metal band Gojira delivered a performance with a heavy dose of pyrotechnics.

“We just went metal after Les Mis, after cancan,” NBC opening ceremony host Kelly Clarkson said, enthused.

An opera singer took over, performing as a large ship passed through the Seine. “Sing!” Clarkson shouted.

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Opera Singer Marina Viotti, the Orchestre de Paris and a Choir perform during the athletes’ parade on the River Seine near the Supreme Court during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Opera Singer Marina Viotti, the Orchestre de Paris and a Choir perform during the athletes’ parade on the River Seine near the Supreme Court. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

It’s all a part of a portion of the event titled “Liberté,” which is one-third of the French Republic’s motto, “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.”

Translated to English, it is “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”

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