The Paris Olympics opened with a bang, a mechanical horse, headless aristocrats and (probably) the kitchen sink – 40 favourite reactions
For those of you who have been desperate for more sport since the end of the Euros, and have decided to ignore the cricket, there’s about to be a kind of sports heaven with the Olympics and the Paralympics.
Let the Olympic Games Paris 2024 begin! #Paris2024 #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/rqi8PeUKC4
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) July 26, 2024
Any Olympics opening ceremony is a spectacle, but when France does spectacular – they go all in. The three-hour ceremony, taking place along the Seine, featured Lady GaGa, Celine Dion – and heavy metal band Gojira, who understood the assignment.
BREAKING NEWS
This year Gojira became the first metal band to perform at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.
This is incredibly cool and badass. France will now forever be labeled as cool and badass. pic.twitter.com/vJtH6wEOYv
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) July 26, 2024
Let the games begin!Sending love and luck to all competitors.
– Celine xx… #paris2024 #openingceremony pic.twitter.com/84aJP9AGjw— Celine Dion (@celinedion) July 26, 2024
The teams ‘paraded’ via boat
Near, far, wherever you are… #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/xFbbCCk1y1
— Team GB (@TeamGB) July 26, 2024
CANADAAAAAAA
Floating along the Seine.
Around 100 athletes on the boat.
Andre De Grasse and Maude Charron are flag bearers.
What a moment. #Paris2024 | #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/oKgj57WWmR
— Lukas Weese (@Weesesports) July 26, 2024
These comments give a hint as to how genuinely bizarre the whole ceremony was.
1.
Suddenly realising we need to let France win Eurovision, just to see what the hell they do with it
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) July 26, 2024
2.
Rosie & Jim have arrived upon the River Seine representing team GB at the flag ceremony at the #Olympics #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/cfIEWFPQBX
— (@SianThymes) July 26, 2024
3.
‘My dad could make something better than this.’ #OpeningCeremony #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/kWFKd4grbD
— Count Binface (@CountBinface) July 26, 2024
4.
Petition to have these weirdos do every Opening Ceremony.
— John Green (@sportswithjohn) July 26, 2024
5.
Gonna tell my kids this is Avatar. pic.twitter.com/JtWoS9H1cl
— Gigg’s (@Giggs_) July 26, 2024
6.
I'm currently watching coverage of the olympics on Canadian television. If I'd taken a drink every time they mentioned Celine Dion, I'd now have a liver like an ice mummy.
— Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann) July 26, 2024
7.
I’ve watched so much of the #OpeningCeremony that I am now in favour of Brexit!
— Jason Manford (@JasonManford) July 26, 2024
8.
The ghost of Charlotte Dujardin’s career has been spotted racing down The Seine. pic.twitter.com/XXl0Kyib2Y
— Miffy (@miffythegamer) July 26, 2024
9.
This Opening Ceremony has it all: Assassin's Creed; Decapitated Monarchs; A Lady Dressed as a Croissant. It's like if you distilled France into a powder and snorted it.
— John Green (@sportswithjohn) July 26, 2024
10.
The masked parkour figure peeling off the mask and it’s Paul Shane, immediately launching into You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ as the crowd loses their minds #OpeningCeremony #BaybehBaybeh pic.twitter.com/BUsfMBH5j8
— Scott Innes (@Flying_Inside) July 26, 2024
11.
wow, if you look closely you can see that the olympics is actually set in the same cinematic universe as ratatouille pic.twitter.com/nwKOSrRkc0
— Callum Asplen (@callumasplen) July 26, 2024
12.
i feel like they're siblings. cousins at least pic.twitter.com/GnzxYfA0mU
— nicole boyce (@nicolewboyce) July 26, 2024
13.
2012, no one drowned
2016, no one drowned
2020, no one drowned
2024.. pic.twitter.com/4b7qpkwTGS— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) July 26, 2024
14.
god I'm feeling patriotic, we're just so unapologetically weird
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) July 26, 2024
15.
You know what he is thinking: this Opening Ceremony is very much a meeting that could have been an email pic.twitter.com/BLRwZe2YWe
— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) July 26, 2024
16.
This guy was 28 years old when the Opening Ceremony started!#OpeningCeremony #OlympicGames #Olympic2024 pic.twitter.com/dNEv3wPV6C
— Des Kelly (@TheDesKelly) July 26, 2024
17.
The most French place for the Olympic flame to finish would be lighting a candle in a Kronenburg bottle at Jim Morrison’s grave.
— rufus jones (@rufusjones1) July 26, 2024
18.
Papa Smurf is in his OnlyFans era #Olympics #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/ZUUuPQL09v
— SHANE REACTION (@imshanereaction) July 26, 2024
19.
“Vietnam, another country with very strong ties to France” might be my favourite bit of commentary so far
— Conor Sewell (@CCSewell) July 26, 2024
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"And here comes the one athlete from Peru" pic.twitter.com/ocqZ2KNqcR
— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) July 26, 2024