Orchestrated at the very end of the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Céline Dion's performance from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower greatly moved and won over spectators and viewers around the world. Last month, a new video was released online by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to celebrate this event.
En memory of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the IOC recently unveiled a video clip in which sequences of Celine Dion's memorable performance on “Hymn to Love” and strong and moving images from the Olympic fortnight.
The clip – a little less than four minutes long – first opens on the imposing stage set up at the Trocadéro, facing the «Dame de Fer»and surrounded by the stands of what was the “Champions Park” during the Games. Images of the lighting of the Olympic cauldron then appear, with obviously the conflagration carried out by Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner, the final bearers of the flame in the Jardin des Tuileries.
On the notes of the iconic song covered by the artist with more than 250 million records sold, the Eiffel Tower adorned with the Olympic rings and Céline Dion precede slow motion videos which show the performances and celebrations of the athletes, in particular the French rugby sevens team crowned at the Stade de France or the pole vaulter Armand Duplantis.
As the Olympic institution pointed out when presenting this new video:
Celine Dion's unforgettable performance provides a fitting soundtrack to these highlights of the Games.
This video also allows fans around the world to relive the unique spirit of Paris 2024.
The only artist to have performed at two Games Opening Ceremonies – Atlanta 1996 and therefore Paris 2024 – Céline Dion performed this summer his big return to the stage after several years of absencebetween repercussions of the pandemic of Covid-19 on his international tour and announcement of his illness (stiff-person syndrome / stiff person syndrome).
His performance of “Hymn to Love” has since been viewed tens of millions of times and was also shared on the platforms of streaming from October 10.
A date which was certainly not chosen at random, October 10 being in fact the anniversary of the disappearance of Edith Piaf, who died in 1963.
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