The Indian Olympic Affiliation has revealed the names of these from the Indian contingent that shall be participating within the grand opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday.
Whereas PV Sindhu and Sharath Kamal had already been confirmed because the flag-bearers of Staff India beforehand, a complete of 78 athletes and officers from 12 disciplines shall characterize Staff India in a never-seen-before parade that may take witness athletes being carried on boats within the river Seine.
“Indian Olympic Affiliation President Dr. PT Usha and Chef-de-Mission Gagan Narang have given high precedence to athletes within the composition of the contingent within the Athletes’ Parade,” learn an IOA assertion.
Among the many high athletes who shall participate within the opening ceremony are:
The IOA additionally acknowledged that the rationale behind plenty of the athletes not participating in Friday’s opening ceremony is the truth that they’ve occasions scheduled for Saturday.
The nationwide physique additionally confirmed {that a} vital variety of athletes from the Indian contingent (Athletics, Weightlifting and Wrestling) groups are but to achieve Paris.
The 2024 Paris Olympics are scheduled to happen from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
Concerning the opening ceremony
For the primary time of their historical past, the Olympics Video games won’t kick off in a stadium however as a substitute on a river. A bigger-than-life opening ceremony at Paris 2024 will see an armada of boats carry over 200 delegations of athletes alongside a stretch of the river Seine via the town, as hundreds watch from both facet of the waterway. An bold transfer, which within the phrases of Tony Estanguet – head of the organizing committee – will see all the metropolis became an unlimited Olympic stadium.
The boats carrying athletes will depart from the Pont d’Austerlitz bridge, which will get its identify from the Battle of Austerlitz in the course of the Napoleonic Wars. The flotilla will cowl a six-kilometer stretch over the Seine – crossing 18 bridges and several other landmarks throughout the Metropolis of Lights within the sundown hours – earlier than making its technique to Pont d’Léna, which is a stone’s throw away from the Eiffel Tower. Per a number of reviews, together with from French day by day Le Monde, someplace between 80-100 boats are anticipated to parade a contingent of athletes representing 206 totally different Nationwide Olympic Committees.