Olympics PARIS / The XXXIII Summer Olympic Games 2024 are officially inaugurated!

In a long, iconic, risky and very complex Ceremony, Spain 'paraded' in its boat along the Seine River in search of Olympus. And tonight the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games (July 26-Aug 11) were officially inaugurated, highly anticipated Games after the Tokyo 2020 pandemic that left no one satisfied. On this occasion, the rain greatly spoiled the boat parade of the 203 National Committees, but that remains for history and tomorrow we are already in the water competing. We will do it with 59 Olympic aquatic athletes. Let's go, Spain!

With Marcus Cooper and Támara Echegoyen as standard bearers and some of the great aquatic athletes who still have days left to compete, Spain will It clung to the liveliest ship - it is wrong for us to say it - but together with the United States we were the most active in the waters of the Seine River.

France showed muscle, history and power in equal parts with a great city (Paris), in a Ceremony that was very different for those who suffered it (due to the adverse weather) than for those of us who saw it on television (a luxury). Still, a historic event for our athletes and for our lives.

If the first part was somewhat heavy due to the rain, the second had a little more dynamism with the raising of the flag, the lighting of the cauldron Olympian carrying the Rafa Nadal torch at the hands of Zinedine Zidane, the speeches and the universal declaration. The same as always, but in 2024 and in a new sleep: the stadium was the city. Long live the Games!

Communication RFEN Aquatics. Photo: The Olympic Spain boat sailing along the Seine River in Paris / (c) Spanish Olympic Committee (COE)