Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games could be moved to the Stade de France. The President of the Republic made the announcement in an interview with BFM TV and RMC.
The Stade is already scheduled to host the closing ceremonies of the Games. The Olympic flame will be lit on Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, where the Games will begin on July 26th and end on August 1st. The opening ceremony is currently scheduled for the first time to make history outside of a stadium with a nautical parade on the Seine in the heart of the capital. The fallback solutions lead, according to the tenant of the Élysée, to the Trocadéro, the place where the festivities must end, but also at the Stades de France, the President said in the interview.. The possibility of moving the ceremony is extremely low because the scenario has not really been worked on. “It’s a subject that has never been raised before and we have never been asked to prepare for it,” confides an internal source to the Paris 2024 consortium, which will hand over the keys to the premises in June.