[Music] come with me to the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics I boarded the media buses and traveled through the restricted and heavily police line roads to our coverage zones I had a long journey from where the bus dropped me off which meant I got to walk along the famed sham and see the excitement up close for the first time ever the opening didn’t take place in a stadium but on a river the river send to be exact while there’s been much controversy about the water’s cleanliness boats proceeded across a 6 km stretch even in the rainy weather fans weren’t deterred and cheered loudly as a flotilla of barges carried more than 6,000 athletes along the river in a nearly 4-Hour show I was stationed on the P of Carousel excuse my pronunciation and watch the ceremony both on a screen like you would at home and from the bridge as the athletes dance their way across the river head to rs.com for full coverage of the ceremony including Seline Dion’s performance