“Magnificent” and “electric”… the French and foreign press unanimously praise the closing ceremony

A success. Like the organization of these Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024, this is what the French and international press has welcomed. In France, Release seemed to enjoy the show.Paris is a party”greets the daily, for whom “electricity was passing through the TV” despite a show designed this time for the spectators present at the Stade de France.A few transitional scenes offer welcome breaks, but the sequences are lively.“, notes the special envoy of Figaro in the Dionysian enclosure, where ““Electro was in celebration”.

Despite the rain, spectators and viewers were able to enjoy a colorful and joyful show, marked by the presence of several big names in French and international music (Jean-Michel Jarre, Amadou et Mariam, Santa).The Games ended on Sunday and now we are already lacking a little oxygen, and not only because Jean-Michel Jarre and his entourage of trance-ridden DJs have put away their keyboards and lights in the humid Saint-Denis night.”retrace The team for whom “Back to school starts a week later”.

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Pour The Parisian, «Paris 2024 was able to bow out magnificently at the end of a Paralympic Games closing ceremony that was perfectly controlled from start to finish. And «unforgettable farewell” for the Parisian daily, for whom this final ceremony was more “much more moving and successful than that of August 11th,” date of the Olympic Games.

Present in large numbers at the Stade de France, the editorial staff of West France took the opportunity to salute the organization of these Games: “The day after closing the book on seven years of work, Paris 2024 and the various sporting bodies of the Paralympic movement can wake up with the feeling of duty accomplished.” Libération clutch, and see further: “All hope that the energy and fervour of the Paralympics that ends this Sunday will open up prospects for inclusion for people with disabilities, in sport and in society.”

The foreign press is also won over

Internationally, The Guardian was seduced by “the biggest party that Paris 2024 will have delivered” and a ““A historic closing ceremony”The British daily newspaper already seems to be affected by nostalgia: “Farewell, Paris: you were chic, spectacular and showed how to organize beautiful Games”.

Still in the Anglo-Saxon world, the New York Times also praised the quality of the organization of these Games: “The remarkable 16 days of the Olympics were marked by uncompromising French ambition, a miracle of careful planning and execution at a cost of some $4.8 billion. France arrived at the Games reeling from two rounds of unexpected legislative elections that resulted in political impasse. It will emerge without having resolved these problems, but with a newfound confidence in itself. A pretty good summary of the month and a half that ended last night.

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