The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games will be held tomorrow evening in Paris, where 4.400 athletes and 182 delegations will participate.
The ceremony, like for the Olympic Games (OI) held from July 26 to August 11, will be held outside the stadium, on Concorde Square and on Champs Elysées avenue, choreographed by Swede Alexander Ekman (Alexander), while artistic director Thomas Jolly as well as for OI.
Little is known about the details of the ceremony, only Ekman said that there will be 150 dancers, including 20 with disabilities.
Joly said that the ceremony is called "Paradox".
"Setting the city as the setting for this ceremony is already a paradox because the city is not fully adapted to people with disabilities," said Joly.
The ceremony, which starts around 20.00:50.000 p.m., will last for about three hours, in front of about XNUMX visitors and a parade of sports delegations along the famous Parisian avenue.
The Paralympic torch, lit in England, where the Games originated after the Second World War, arrived in France on August 25 through the Channel Tunnel and travels around the country until the opening ceremony, when the torch will be lit.
In addition to the Paralympic athletes, Chinese actor Jacky Chen, an expert in martial arts, will carry the torch.
The burner, the same as for the OI, is located in the Paris Tuileries Park near the Louvre Museum, and every evening it will be in the sky of Paris by means of a balloon, so that it will be visible to the whole city.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin recently said that up to 25.000 police and gendarmes and 10.000 private security agents will be deployed during the Paralympic Games, which will be held in Paris for the first time.
The security of "sensitive delegations", including the Israeli one, "will be ensured in the same way as at the Olympic Games", Darmanen said, adding that the Israeli delegation of 27 athletes, two judges and the president of the Paralympic Committee "will be under constant protection".
The Paralympic Games last until September 8, and the closing ceremony will be held at the Stade de France. The famous French musician of electronic music, Jean-Michel Jarre, will participate in that ceremony.
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