ENTERTAINMENT – The last of the last. This Saturday, September 14, “The Parade of Champions” takes place, the final opportunity to honor the athletes and para-athletes who shone throughout the summer and to close the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games in style. Several tens of thousands of spectators will be on hand to watch the parade that will take place between the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe.
The Paris 2024 Olympics Champions Parade, the ultimate moment of celebration for French athletes
Less than an hour. That’s how long it took for the (free) ticket office for the parade to sell out. If you’re not one of the lucky 70,000, don’t panic: the entire day’s celebrations will be broadcast on the small screen.
Deprived of the Olympic and Paralympic events this summer, TF1 did not intend to miss the final event. The channel canceled several of its flagship weekend programs to participate in this day. It will begin broadcasting its special edition “The French celebrate their champions” at 3 p.m., half an hour before the start of the Parade from the Champs-Élysées to the Place de l’Étoile (3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.). As specified in the TF1 press release, it will be followed by the rekindling of the flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then by the ceremony of presentation of decorations to the athletes by Emmanuel Macron, between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. The TF1 event will end just before the evening news. BFM will also follow the parade and the presentation of decorations, live from 3:30 p.m. in a special edition.
A unique evening on France 2
France 2 will go on air a little earlier, with the start of “The Champions’ Party” from 1:30 p.m. A program that will follow the parade and the presentation of decorations, and which will extend until 8 p.m. But above all, France Télévisions will broadcast the program exclusively “Paris 2024: thank you! The big event evening” : a concert with the artists from the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games ceremonies. This will include Lucky Love, an artist who caused a sensation at the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
The concert will start at 9pm and is expected to last around two hours. The channel will then extend the party with a DJ set broadcast from the Arc de Triomphe between 11pm and midnight.
Finally, nostalgic people with insomnia tendencies are not forgotten with two documentaries “The Olympic Games Album” and “The Paralympic Games Album” broadcast during the night.
This final event linked to the Paris 2024 Games will be an opportunity to applaud for the last time many medal-winning athletes and para-athletes (including Léon Marchand, Teddy Riner, Antoine Dupont, Cassandre Beaugrand, the Lebrun brothers, Sandrine Martinet, Gloria Agblemagnon and Alexis Hanquinquant) and non-medal-winning athletes. But also volunteers, as well as members of the Games organization, the Paris city hall and representatives of the French sports movement.
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