Event begins at 10:30 a.m. PT on Friday
PARIS – The Canadian team, including several Island athletes, will literally go with the flow today in the floating opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on the Seine .
“I am nervous and really don’t know what to expect or even what kind of boat it’s going to be,” said De Grasse, Canada’s winningest male Summer Olympian with six medals.The opportunity isn’t lost on him: “It’s going to be a big moment that I will remember the rest of my life. Watching as a kid, I never dreamed of going to the Olympics. But I became not only an Olympian but a flag-bearer. It’s incredible.
All that means only about 100 of the 338 Canadian athletes will take part in the opening ceremony today and almost all of them will be athletes competing in the second week of the Games. Even that is not a guarantee of being in the opening. “So we will be watching the opening ceremony from our TV screens like everybody else. We’ll get to take part in the closing ceremony, hopefully with medals around our necks.”
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