Paris 2024: A Call for a ‘Disability Revolution’, Corinne Doria
On the evening of 28 August, the Place de la Concorde in Paris hosted the Summer Paralympic Games opening ceremony. Music, dance, fireworks, and inspirational
5 September 2024
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Paris 2024: ‘City of Flight’ or why the Olympic balloon seems so at home in Paris, Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira
The Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony was remarkable in its scale. Rather than constricting the events to a stadium, as had been the case since
4 September 2024
The Requin-ing: Netflix’s Sous la Seine and the Age of Human Disaster
In this guest post, Venus Bivar and Roxanne Panchasi reflect on the recent Netflix film ‘Sous la Seine’ in the context of the recent Paris
13 August 2024
Paris 2024: Paradoxes of the Opening Ceremony, Jonathan Ervine
7000 athletes on 85 boats, 2000 performers, and music from singers such as Lady Gaga, Aya Nakamura, and Céline Dion. And then there was the
8 August 2024
Paris 2024: France Bars Veiled Muslim Athletes Despite Inclusivity Pledge, Rim-Sarah Alouane
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games dazzled with its grand display of glitter, parades, punctuated by typically French provocative performances that celebrate France’s unique
8 August 2024
Paris 2024: The Spectacular Seine, Jessica Wardhaugh
Focusing on the Seine rather than the stadium was one of the most self-conscious innovations of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony. “Bold, original, and unique,”
8 August 2024
Paris 2024: Missing in Action: Coubertin and the 1924 Games, Robert Lewis
The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris was joyfully creative, bizarre, and entertaining. At a personal level, I enjoyed it from start
8 August 2024
Paris 2024: A Joyous Entry? Erika Graham-Goering
As an event that memorably featured the spouting blood of beheaded aristocrats, the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris may not seem
8 August 2024
Paris 2024: What happened to 1924? Geoffrey Levitt
Elite sport in 1924 was both vital and political. Now, it is merely commercial. This was epitomised by the fact that during the 2024 opening
8 August 2024
Paris 2024: An Opening Ceremony and ‘en même temps’ a Carnival, Andrew Smith
President Macron’s use of the phrase ‘en même temps’ has become a political cliché, signalling duality, a need for nuance, or (as his supporters would
8 August 2024
