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‘Records’ is the somewhat cryptic name given to the 2024 Olympic Closing ceremony. I’m going to stick my neck on the line and say that music will play a sizeable part. The official Olympic website has some more incisive/equally spurious blurb”
More than 100 performers, acrobats, dancers, and circus artists will join world-renowned singers in various musical performances. Part of the show will take place in the air, accompanied by spectacular lighting effects and the flair of the French in the costumes, with the overall effect taking spectators – both those at home and in person – “on a journey into the past, to the origins of the Games, but also into the future, and ultimately to a timeless universe”.
On 11 August 2024, the Olympic Games will be over, and the Olympic flame will be extinguished, that moment will remind us just how precious these Olympic Games are - a unique monument to a shared experience - and therefore fragile.”
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