The Olympic flame is coming to the Cannes Film Festival red carpet.
The 77th edition of the Festival de Cannes will serve as a preview for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the premiere screening of Mickaël Gamrasni’s documentary “Olympiques! La France des Jeux” on May 21.
Paris 2024, in agreement with the Mairie de Cannes, is offering the flame to the film festival as a preview before it’s officially welcomed by the city of Cannes on June 18 along the Olympic Torch Relay, which began in Marseille on May 8. Sports personalities and athletes will be the guests of honor at the special screening: Tony Estanguet (pictured above), Marie-José Pérec, Thierry Rey, Iliana Rupert, Marie Patouillet, Nélia Barbosa, Alexis Hanquiquant, Christine Caron and Brahim Asloum will flank Paralympic champion Arnaud Assoumani, who will carry the Olympic flame onto the red carpet.
“What a joy it is to welcome such a host of Olympic stars,...
The 77th edition of the Festival de Cannes will serve as a preview for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the premiere screening of Mickaël Gamrasni’s documentary “Olympiques! La France des Jeux” on May 21.
Paris 2024, in agreement with the Mairie de Cannes, is offering the flame to the film festival as a preview before it’s officially welcomed by the city of Cannes on June 18 along the Olympic Torch Relay, which began in Marseille on May 8. Sports personalities and athletes will be the guests of honor at the special screening: Tony Estanguet (pictured above), Marie-José Pérec, Thierry Rey, Iliana Rupert, Marie Patouillet, Nélia Barbosa, Alexis Hanquiquant, Christine Caron and Brahim Asloum will flank Paralympic champion Arnaud Assoumani, who will carry the Olympic flame onto the red carpet.
“What a joy it is to welcome such a host of Olympic stars,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
With France on its highest level of security alert amid geopolitical turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East, organizers behind the Paris Olympics are still going ahead with ambitious plans to host the opening ceremony along the Seine river on July 26.
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, said on Monday in an interview with French outlets Bfm TV and Rmc that the opening ceremony could relocate to an indoor location “depending on our analysis of the context.” “We have fallback scenarios. There are plan Bs and plan Cs,” Macron said, citing the Stade de France as an alternate location.
Under the current plans put together by Tony Estanguet, the gold-medal winning French athlete who presides over the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, as many as 10,500 athletes from all around the world will parade on boats along the six-kilometer Seine River. Macron suggested the itinerary might be shortened. Original plans have already been...
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, said on Monday in an interview with French outlets Bfm TV and Rmc that the opening ceremony could relocate to an indoor location “depending on our analysis of the context.” “We have fallback scenarios. There are plan Bs and plan Cs,” Macron said, citing the Stade de France as an alternate location.
Under the current plans put together by Tony Estanguet, the gold-medal winning French athlete who presides over the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, as many as 10,500 athletes from all around the world will parade on boats along the six-kilometer Seine River. Macron suggested the itinerary might be shortened. Original plans have already been...
- 4/17/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Paris, June 9 (Ians) The preparations for next year’s Olympics and the participation of contingents from Russia and Belarus in Paris 2024 were the main topics of discussion when International Olympic Committee (Ioc) Thomas Bach met French President Emmanuel Macron here.
While both leaders expressed their full support to the Organising Committee for Paris 2024 Olympic Games, they also reaffirmed that the decision regarding the participation of Russian and Belarus athletes will be left to the Ioc, to be taken at a later date.
The Ioc President Thomas Bach was welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
The two leaders discussed the preparations for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which are going extremely well. President Bach and President Macron expressed their full support for the Organising Committee and its President, Olympic champion Tony Estanguet, who also attended the meeting, the Ioc informed in a release late on Thursday.
While both leaders expressed their full support to the Organising Committee for Paris 2024 Olympic Games, they also reaffirmed that the decision regarding the participation of Russian and Belarus athletes will be left to the Ioc, to be taken at a later date.
The Ioc President Thomas Bach was welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
The two leaders discussed the preparations for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which are going extremely well. President Bach and President Macron expressed their full support for the Organising Committee and its President, Olympic champion Tony Estanguet, who also attended the meeting, the Ioc informed in a release late on Thursday.
- 6/9/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Paris, May 24 (Ians) How many people will be able to watch the first ever outdoor opening ceremony of an Olympic Games on site in the summer next year? The answer is still unclear, as France’s Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin talked about “hundreds of thousands of people” when asked that question.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will start at 8:24 pm (local time) on July 26, 2024, and will last three hours, confirmed Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet in a press conference, as the French government, the organising committee and the French capital’s mayor signed a security protocol on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.
Some 116 boats will be hired to transport over 10,000 athletes, sailing six kilometers from Pont d’Austerlitz to the Pont d’Iena, with several iconic monuments such as Notre Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower serving as a backdrop.
Around 100,000 tickets will be sold for...
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will start at 8:24 pm (local time) on July 26, 2024, and will last three hours, confirmed Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet in a press conference, as the French government, the organising committee and the French capital’s mayor signed a security protocol on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.
Some 116 boats will be hired to transport over 10,000 athletes, sailing six kilometers from Pont d’Austerlitz to the Pont d’Iena, with several iconic monuments such as Notre Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower serving as a backdrop.
Around 100,000 tickets will be sold for...
- 5/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Paris, April 25 (Ians) A total of 116 Parisian and regional boats from 42 river companies have been identified to sail on the River Seine for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on July 26, 2024, the organisers have announced.
While 98 per cent of the boats will be hired from the Paris ecosystem, Batorama, a Strasbourg-based provider, will also send their boats to participate in the opening ceremony next year, a Xinhua report said.
“On July 26, 2024, more than a billion viewers will turn to Paris for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games,” said Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet on Monday.
“We are very happy and grateful to be able to count on them to make the organization of this unprecedented, exciting, and we hope, the greatest ceremony in the history of the Games possible,” he added.
In December 2021, the organisers unveiled their ambition to present the opening ceremony on the River Seine, with...
While 98 per cent of the boats will be hired from the Paris ecosystem, Batorama, a Strasbourg-based provider, will also send their boats to participate in the opening ceremony next year, a Xinhua report said.
“On July 26, 2024, more than a billion viewers will turn to Paris for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games,” said Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet on Monday.
“We are very happy and grateful to be able to count on them to make the organization of this unprecedented, exciting, and we hope, the greatest ceremony in the history of the Games possible,” he added.
In December 2021, the organisers unveiled their ambition to present the opening ceremony on the River Seine, with...
- 4/25/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Paris, Feb 3 (Ian) The Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay will begin its journey in Marseille, host city of the sailing and football competitions, the organisers announced on Friday.
“In spring 2024, Marseille will have the honour and good fortune to be the first city to welcome the Olympic flame on French soil. The Belem, a majestic three-masted ship, will carry the flame across the Mediterranean Sea from Athens to Marseille, two cities closely connected by a shared history,” the organisers said in a statement.
After being lit at the site of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece, Olympia the Olympic flame will travel to Athens. From Athens, it will be carried to Marseille aboard the Belem, a majestic three-masted tall ship to embark on its journey across France.
Following the Olympic flame’s arrival, Marseille will host the first stage of the Olympic Torch Relay, the start of an epic nationwide journey...
“In spring 2024, Marseille will have the honour and good fortune to be the first city to welcome the Olympic flame on French soil. The Belem, a majestic three-masted ship, will carry the flame across the Mediterranean Sea from Athens to Marseille, two cities closely connected by a shared history,” the organisers said in a statement.
After being lit at the site of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece, Olympia the Olympic flame will travel to Athens. From Athens, it will be carried to Marseille aboard the Belem, a majestic three-masted tall ship to embark on its journey across France.
Following the Olympic flame’s arrival, Marseille will host the first stage of the Olympic Torch Relay, the start of an epic nationwide journey...
- 2/3/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Paris (France), Oct 6 (Ians) The organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have revealed the route for the marathon event, which was described as “unprecedented and challenging”.
Starting at the Paris City Hall, athletes will run to Chateau de Versailles on the western outskirts of Paris, then return to the city centre and finish at the Invalides.
The course, revealed on Wednesday, will take in some of the most well-known sights and monuments of Paris and its surroundings, such as the Opera Garnier, Jardin des Tuileries, Pyramides du Louvre, Place de la Concorde, and the Eiffel Tower.
“The route, with its historical foundations, also reflects our constant desire to bring the sport to the heart of the city. It combines sporting performance with an exceptional cultural and architectural heritage, and to open the Games to different territories,” said Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee.
The organisers have drawn...
Starting at the Paris City Hall, athletes will run to Chateau de Versailles on the western outskirts of Paris, then return to the city centre and finish at the Invalides.
The course, revealed on Wednesday, will take in some of the most well-known sights and monuments of Paris and its surroundings, such as the Opera Garnier, Jardin des Tuileries, Pyramides du Louvre, Place de la Concorde, and the Eiffel Tower.
“The route, with its historical foundations, also reflects our constant desire to bring the sport to the heart of the city. It combines sporting performance with an exceptional cultural and architectural heritage, and to open the Games to different territories,” said Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee.
The organisers have drawn...
- 10/6/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Paris (France), Oct 6 (Ians) The organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have revealed the route for the marathon event, which was described as “unprecedented and challenging”.
Starting at the Paris City Hall, athletes will run to Chateau de Versailles on the western outskirts of Paris, then return to the city centre and finish at the Invalides.
The course, revealed on Wednesday, will take in some of the most well-known sights and monuments of Paris and its surroundings, such as the Opera Garnier, Jardin des Tuileries, Pyramides du Louvre, Place de la Concorde, and the Eiffel Tower.
“The route, with its historical foundations, also reflects our constant desire to bring the sport to the heart of the city. It combines sporting performance with an exceptional cultural and architectural heritage, and to open the Games to different territories,” said Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee.
The organisers have drawn...
Starting at the Paris City Hall, athletes will run to Chateau de Versailles on the western outskirts of Paris, then return to the city centre and finish at the Invalides.
The course, revealed on Wednesday, will take in some of the most well-known sights and monuments of Paris and its surroundings, such as the Opera Garnier, Jardin des Tuileries, Pyramides du Louvre, Place de la Concorde, and the Eiffel Tower.
“The route, with its historical foundations, also reflects our constant desire to bring the sport to the heart of the city. It combines sporting performance with an exceptional cultural and architectural heritage, and to open the Games to different territories,” said Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee.
The organisers have drawn...
- 10/6/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Beijing, Feb 17 (Ians) Paris is determined to hold the 2024 Olympic Games in some ways never tried before, Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organising committee, has said. The 2024 Olympics will be games open to the public, said Estanguet, who won Olympic gold in C1 canoe slalom at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 […]...
- 2/17/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
France Télévisions has signed a deal with Discovery to sub-license exclusive free-to-air French broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games for Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024 from Eurosport, Discovery’s leading sports brand.
Under the deal, France Télévisions will broadcast the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games, as well as extended coverage, including dedicated streams covering every sport, event and gold medal across all screens. France Televisions previously sub-licensed the broadcasting rights for the 2018 and 2020 Games from Discovery.
Discovery, Eurosport and France Télévisions will be working closely with the Paris 2024 Organising Committee and its leadership to support the delivery and promotion of the Olympic Games.
The sub-licensing pact follows Discovery’s long-term partnership with the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) announced in June 2015. Discovery acquired exclusive multimedia rights for 50 countries and territories in Europe. The deal started with Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and will run through to Olympic Games Paris 2024.
“Discovery is all about powering people’s...
Under the deal, France Télévisions will broadcast the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games, as well as extended coverage, including dedicated streams covering every sport, event and gold medal across all screens. France Televisions previously sub-licensed the broadcasting rights for the 2018 and 2020 Games from Discovery.
Discovery, Eurosport and France Télévisions will be working closely with the Paris 2024 Organising Committee and its leadership to support the delivery and promotion of the Olympic Games.
The sub-licensing pact follows Discovery’s long-term partnership with the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) announced in June 2015. Discovery acquired exclusive multimedia rights for 50 countries and territories in Europe. The deal started with Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and will run through to Olympic Games Paris 2024.
“Discovery is all about powering people’s...
- 4/23/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The possibility of video gaming as an Olympic sport was one of the topics explored in the Esports Forum held Friday in Switzerland.
The International Olympic Committee (Ioc) and the Global Association of International Sports Federations (Gaisf) brought together 150 representatives from the esports and gaming industries to meet at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, including pro players/teams, game publishers, and media professionals, among others. Various representatives from National Olympic Committees, International Sports Federations, and even Olympic athletes, partners, and broadcasters attended as well.
While the topic of esports coming to the olympics was one of the topics up for discussion, the main intent was to explore areas of “commonality and potential collaboration” according to a news article from the official Olympics website.
The article notes that “an organization does not currently exist that represents esports globally and could align with the Olympic values, rules and regulations” which is why...
The International Olympic Committee (Ioc) and the Global Association of International Sports Federations (Gaisf) brought together 150 representatives from the esports and gaming industries to meet at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, including pro players/teams, game publishers, and media professionals, among others. Various representatives from National Olympic Committees, International Sports Federations, and even Olympic athletes, partners, and broadcasters attended as well.
While the topic of esports coming to the olympics was one of the topics up for discussion, the main intent was to explore areas of “commonality and potential collaboration” according to a news article from the official Olympics website.
The article notes that “an organization does not currently exist that represents esports globally and could align with the Olympic values, rules and regulations” which is why...
- 7/23/2018
- by Liz Lanier
- Variety Film + TV
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