The public will have the opportunity to attend the dress rehearsal of the fleet of boats which will transport the delegations participating in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. Two tests are scheduled one week apart, reports The Parisian . A first spinning will take place Monday June 17 and a second, more substantial, Monday June 24, 2024.
The tests will be carried out between the Pont d’Austerlitz and the Pont d’Iéna. The first rehearsal will take place from 6:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., specifies France 3 Paris Ile-de-France . The boats will then turn around and travel in the opposite direction, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. On that day, it will only be possible to see half of the fleet, belonging to group 2. Group 1 having carried out the test in July 2023.
A hundred boats
Monday June 24, it will be a spinning with the fleet “almost complete”, warned the organizers. There will be around a hundred boats with speedboats, barges, yachts, riverboats, specifies the local daily. The boats ensuring the security of the event and those of the audiovisual teams will also be present on the Seine.
These tests had been scheduled for April 8 and May 27, but they had to be postponed due to the flooding of the river. The flow of the river was too high and the navigation conditions far too far from those of July 26, the opening day of the Olympic Games. These tests will make it possible to properly measure the safety distances between boats and the times of passage under bridges. The ceremony will begin on July 26 at 8:24 p.m. The hundred boats on the Seine will transport the 200 delegations of athletes from all over the world.
