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I think of the Sumida River while watching the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024, which took place at 2:30 am on July 27, 2024 (Saturday). It was held outside the stadium for the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games. In addition to the finale of the `` Sanka of Love '' sung by Cerine Dion, the entire Seine flowing through the center of Paris was set, Ladies Gaga's performance, `` Paris Collection '' on the bridge, etc. The parade of about 6 km in length, in which a team of about 6,800 people march on 85 boats of large and small, was very impressive.
As mentioned several times in the Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog, Sumida River and Seine entered into a friendly river tie-up in 1989. Watching the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 on TV, I can imagine that the Tokyo Olympics 2020 athlete parade might have been held on the Sumida River without COVID-19 infection.
Chuo-ohashi Bridge, which spans the Sumida River and connects Shinkawa and Tsukuda. In 1992, the statue of "Messenger" by Osship Zackin, given by Jack Sirak, the mayor of Paris at the time, is installed in the center, and it seems suitable for a special seat to watch the parade.
On the other hand, Ishikawajima Park has Paris Square, which was maintained in 1999 (by the way, there is Tokyo Square in Paris's 16th ward). Nearby there is a Marronnier tree, famous as a street tree on the Champs-Elyse Avenue in Paris, where you will surely see the parade.
※Above the photo shows the signpost and Marronnier tree of "Sumida River / Seine Friendship River Commemorative Tree Planting" along the Sumida River near Paris Square.
One day, if the Olympics are to be held in Tokyo again, the opening ceremony will be held at the multi stadium scheduled to be built on the Sumida River and the site of Tsukiji Market, and it will be interesting to see Kachidokibashi, which jumped with fireworks in the background, and the fleet carrying the team will surely be a picture.…I dreamed of myself.