The Paralympic opening event is on Wednesday 28 August 2024.
The opening event of the Paralympic Games will happen on Wednesday, 28 August. Here's how to enjoy it all over the world.
How to Watch The Paralympics Opening Ceremony Live
For the Olympics opening event, Paris took the action beyond the arena for the very first time ever– something that will be duplicated for the Paralympics, too. As soon as once again, it will be managed by Thomas Jolly, the Artistic Director for the Ceremonies, however the choreography and staging are under the assistance of Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman.
Ekman made his name for his variation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake in Oslo in 2016 when he recreated a lake and filled it with 6,000 liters of water. Ekman will utilize dancers with impairments.
The opening event will be on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and Place de la Concorde, the biggest square in Paris and simply a brief range from the Assemblée Nationale and Le Grand Palais4,400 Paralympic professional athletes, 240 from France, will parade on the Champs-Élysées.
The very first part will be complimentary for the general public to enjoy live, and the last ritualistic and creative part will be at Place de la Concorde, on a 4,500-square-meter phase surrounded by 4 tiers of seating. Rates vary from EUR150 to EUR700, and tickets are readily available on the main ticketing site.
In the end, the Olympic cauldron will when again be lit up until it is snuffed out at the closing event for the last time, and the entire procedure will begin once again in Los Angeles in 2028.
How to Watch The Paralympics Opening Ceremony On Screens
There will be a chance to enjoy the events along with lots of Paralympic occasions on huge screens in the fan zones throughout Paris, as there was throughout the Olympic Games.
For anybody outside Paris, it's possible to view on tv. There's a list of the rights holders of the Olympics and Paralympics, on which you can discover who will be televising the occasions worldwide. The Paralympics opening event in France will be evaluated on free-to-air channel France 2 from 8 pm on Wednesday, 28 August.
In the U.S., NBC Universal has the broadcast rights, and it will be revealed on USA Network and Peacock. A total list of broadcast protection can be discovered here. In the U.S., there will be an unique one-hour pre-show at 1 pm E.T., followed by the Opening Ceremony instantly later on at 2 pm EST. The event will last around 3 hours.
NBCU's Paralympic Games protection will include more streaming hours than any other Paralympic occasion. For the 12-day occasion, there will have to do with 1,500 live hours of protection on Peacock and more than 140 hours of Paris Paralympic tv protection throughout NBC, USA Network, and CNBC.
The schedule for the whole Games can be discovered here,
