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August 27, 2024 27 mins

As a bonus episode, we decided to put a focus on the opening ceremony of Paris 2024, as it was a global phenomenon! Yes we know we’re a bit late with this one, but we had to share our take on it! The world had never seen a ceremony quite like it before and in this episode we discuss how French and non-French the ceremony was, what the cultural references were and how it was received by different audiences!

The real story of the ancient olympic games

World Wars’ impact on the Olympics

Paris 2024 in numbers

The opening ceremony

9.7 million tickets

Tickets prices & ticket prices

300K tickets sold & 29M watched

Thomas Jolly

Opening Ceremony Artists

12 Tableaux

Entire playlist of the songs played on the ceremony

10 Women honored

Yuming Hey interview

Philippe Katerine - Nu

Philippe Katerine Interview

Values

Marine le Pen’s reaction to Aya Nakumura

Iron Horse reactions

Jeanne d’Arc reference

Louise Michel reaction

Louise Michel

The Last Supper vs The Feast of Gods

Thomas Jolly announcement

“Stop attacks on Christians” bus

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