Are you happy to be in Paris? Oui! The 2024 Olympics have made their way to the French capital, and everyone’s asking the same questions: “Will anyone be able to beat Simone Biles?” Probably not. “Will Sha’Carri Richardson be fabulous?” Undoubtedly. “Will the swimmers who are forced into the Seine die of dysentery?” Uhhh .
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Below, find our continually updating highs, lows, and whoas from the entirety of the 2024 Paris Olympics , from the Lady Gaga–featuring Opening Ceremony all the way through to the final podium. HIGH — “The Individual” TikTok is always warning me not to venture into the Paris catacombs without a guide, but the beginning of the Opening Ceremony sent precocious children to run down there unattended. These Stranger Things enfants end up running into a Phantom of the Opera–esque figure beneath the Paris streets, who rows them (and then turns on the boat’s motor to go faster) all the way down the Seine to help them get the torch to the bigger torch they have to light to start the games.
Eventually, though, the phantom (whom the announcers kept referring to as “the individual”) ditched the kids to parkour the torch all over Paris. So don’t go down there if you’ve got a torch you need to hang on to! —Anne Victoria Clark LOW THAT BECAME A HIGH IN CONTEXT OF THE LARGER DANCE PIECE — The totally unrehearsed cancan. What at first seemed like a very rickety version of the cancan suddenly gained new context as the .