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Living up to its moniker the "City of Lights," Paris shimmered through heavy rain on Friday evening as the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony took place for the first time outside of a stadium. But while light shows, pyrotechnics and live performances along the river Seine dazzled, including artist Céline Dion paying homage to songbird Edith Piaf from atop the Eiffel Tower, one thing that stole the show was perhaps the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. A tradition of the Games since the 1928 Olympiad in Amsterdam, how the Olympic flame was lit was unique to this year's event, much like the re...
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When Snoop Dogg agreed to become an Olympic torch bearer, the hip-hop star recalled an emotional, iconic moment watching Muhammad Ali light the cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Now, the 52-year-old US rapper hopes to recreate some of that magic for a global audience watching the Paris Olympics. “It was emotional for all of us to see the champ holding that torch and walking up there,” Snoop Dogg said of the late Ali, who surprised the crowd when he lit the cauldron because he had Parkinson's disease. Snoop Dogg will carry the torch in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, as the town's mayor, ...
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He better not drop it like it’s hot... The Olympic torch has spent two months crossing France, and it has been confirmed that American rapper Snoop Dogg will be among the carriers of the Olympic torch this Friday (26 July) as it makes its final rounds before the Paris Games' opening ceremony. Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr (his real name, in case you didn’t know), 52, will carry it through the streets of Saint-Denis, the Paris suburb home to the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre. The mayor of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin confirmed the news on X: "An international casting @SnoopDogg for the final ...
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On Sunday, Paris welcomed a special guest for France’s national holiday - the Olympic flame illuminating the capital’s grand military parade for Bastille Day. Just 12 days before the French capital hosts the 2024 summer Olympic Games, the torch relay gathered thousands of soldiers, sailors, rescuers, and medics marching in Paris beneath the Patrouille de France flyover. The parade concluded with the arrival of the flame, escorted by horseback riders, 25 torchbearers, and cadets dressed in the five Olympic colours, forming the shapes of the five interlocking Olympic rings. The first torchbearer...
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