Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “Extraordinary”, “super-chic”, “dazzling”… the foreign press is unanimous after the opening ceremony
|Les athlètes ont défilé pour la première fois hors d’un stade. XinHua – Hu Huhu
The foreign press was generally unanimous in welcoming an opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics "grandiose" et "very French".
The day after a successful opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the foreign press reports on this original spectacle.
"The best ceremony in history", headlines the Spanish daily Marca
The Spanish press was very enthusiastic about this ceremony, which saw tennis player Rafael Nadal receive the Olympic torch from Zinedine Zidane. “Paris ends the best ceremony in history”, ran the headline on its website of the Spanish sports daily Marca.
The same story was echoed by the newspaper El Pais, which noted that “Paris amazed the world under the flood".
«Meilleure cérémonie de l'histoire» pour Marca
«Éblouissant» pour CNN
«Brillamment frénétique» pour la BBC
«Une superproduction» pour la Gazzetta dello Sport#Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/guZqZ6jOPm— Christophe Lemaire (@ch_lemaire) July 26, 2024
"A brilliantly frenetic spectacle with a distinctive style", for the BBC
"Liberty, equality, humidity", concludes the Washington Post. The Anglo-Saxon press could not help but write a few lines about the torrential rains that fell on Paris last night.
The BBC nevertheless speaks of a "brilliantly frenetic spectacle with a particular style", while the Guardian underlines the beauty of a metal horse "visually breathtaking", even if France has "definitely kept the biggest and best boat for the end", with however some digs for the concept of a ceremony outside a stadium.
Via @lemondefr. pic.twitter.com/90oektKSZB
— Ian Brossat (@IanBrossat) July 26, 2024
"Dazzling", "this show will remain in history"
The Eiffel Tower, a dream setting for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Gao Jing
“Paris is magical”, is the headline of the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir. A message of tolerance and unity welcomed by most of the international press. “A country fractured by months of political friction that was reconciled for four hours”, prefers to remember La Tribune de Genève.
The Brazilian newspaper O’Globo, however, highlights the problems of access to the Seine, noting that “the public had difficulty understanding how far it could go". Only the New York Times is more skeptical. “On television, countries are separated and isolated on the water, with only spectators in the background, instead of being welcomed in unison in a solemn march in a packed stadium,”, notes the American daily.