After Earlier he had met Emmanuel Macron In France, the president Xavier Miley went to the banks of the Seine River this Friday to attend the Opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. He did so in the presence of the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Miley, and the rest of the world’s heads of state who were present at the event.
“Dear friends, welcome,” the French president posted on his social networks a few hours before the festivities began. Along with his message, he also shared a photo showing all the world leaders who traveled to the country for this reason. According to official reports, dignitaries from more than 130 countries visited.
The official start of the Olympics. It took place just after 2:30 pm in Argentina. At 2:45 pm the national delegation appeared, which was the 12th team to parade, behind Saudi Arabia and before Armenia, and had a volleyball player as its flag bearer. Luciano De Cecco and hockey players Rocío Sánchez Moccia. When the camera focused on them, the whole crew sang a song for the audience: “Come on, let’s go to Argentina, let’s go, we’re going to win…”,
Before the opening ceremony, the Argentine representative spoke to the press and said: “It is an honour to carry the flag. I am happy, excited, anxious, the Games are starting. We both compete tomorrow and that anxiety is starting to set in. I didn’t know much (about the ceremony at the Seine). The truth is that it is unbelievable, nothing like this has ever happened to me, it was always just a walk through the stadium. “It is going to be very special, special and something magical,” he explained. Rocío Sánchez Moccia.
Czech Republic, For his part, he said: “It is beautiful to be able to represent the team, all the athletes who are here, we have to enjoy it. It is all new. Tomorrow we will all compete, it is a bit strange, but at the same time an incredible and unique experience. We are in a place that is one square meter for the two of us, they have given us a harness and we will have the flag. If the flag is too heavy, we have a place to support it. They focus on us for 35 seconds. I knew we shared the boat because we had a small delegation because many colleagues could not come. “They told us it lasts 43 minutes.”
The members of the delegation in charge of inaugurating the ceremony were from Greecerespecting ancient tradition; when Refugee delegation They finished second. The rest of the delegations were in alphabetical order. In this sense, taking into account Australia (which will organize the 2032 Games) and the United States (host country in 2028), it was decided that these would be just before France, which will close the event.
According to what was reported before the festival began, 205 delegations will participate in the event. These will be divided into 85 boats that will carry more than 6,500 athletes, who will be sailing 6 Kilometers on the banks of the Seine. The ceremony will last more than three and a half hours 300,000 viewers During the entire journey, he also explained that the security forces carried out an operation to ensure that as many people as possible were safe. 45,000 agents.
The expectation is that around 1.5 billion people around the world will follow the event during the TV broadcast and on various platforms. In that sense, Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the network in charge of generating images from each of the sports venues and which will host the inauguration, confirmed that what viewers around the world will see this Friday will also be unprecedented.
120 cameras will be used for the inaugurationTokyo 2020 will be three times larger than the Olympic Games Eight drones To follow all the action on the show, Three helicopters and 200 mobile cameras those who use smartphones Samsung S24 Ultra placed on ships. Four boats will be available for OBS only, one each Three robotic cameras,
The event is broadcast in Latin America on TYC Sports and TV Pública (Argentina) / Channel 5 and TUDN (Mexico) / ATV Peru and Movistar Deportes (Peru) / Channel 5 Medios Públicos (Uruguay) / Claro Sports (Latin America. YouTube)