The first medals will be handed out at the Paris Olympics on Saturday after the 2024 Games were officially launched with a spectacular four-hour, rain-soaked ceremony along the river Seine.
Following qualification heats, the 10m air rifle mixed team gold and bronze medal matches will take place at the shooting range in Chateauroux, some 300 kilometres south-west of Paris.
Back in the metropolis, golds will be decided in the judo, men's street skateboarding, men's rugby sevens as well as the individual time trials in the road cycling.
In the pool at the Aquatics Centre in Saint Denis, eight teams – including hosts France – will vie for the women's synchronised 3m springboard diving title.
And at La Défense Arena, the men's and women's 400 metres freestyle as well as the men and women's 4x100m freestyle relays will be contested.
Celebration
Friday night's opening extravaganza featured an array of national and international stars and homages to athletes from 120 years of Olympic history as well as the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, who resuscitated the ancient Greek sports festival.
Water was very much to the fore as around 300,000 people braved persistent, driving downpours to watch a flotilla of vessels ferry around 7,000 athletes between the Pont d'Austerlitz and Pont d'Iéna and fete the Games in Paris since 1924.
During the six-kilometre voyage, opening ceremony artistic director Thomas Jolly unfurled a sporadically wry but continually engaging vision of French history, histrionics and kinks.
At one point, playing with pop and pomp, Jolly orchestrated a vignette in which the Franco-Malian singer Aya Nakamura belted out some of her hit tunes accompanied by musicians from the Republican Guard who eventually broke ranks to get down and funky.
Lady Gaga revelled in an early interlude before the heavens opened.
Soon after her appearance, the 38-year-old American posted a message on social media.
Dancers – who had threatened to boycott the opening ceremony in a dispute over pay and conditions – performed routines along the scaffolding at Notre Dame and along the roof tops.
"I've got such an adrenaline rush," said Selene Martinez, who had travelled from Mexico for the ceremony.
"The atmosphere is really friendly," added 75-year-old Frenchman Jean-Yves Herve, who watched the show with his granddaughter. "There are lots of foreigners, we're enjoying it. It's good for France."
'Love story'
Nearly three hours after the Greek delegation led the way in the first boat, the French athletes emerged in their craft.
Their arrival in front the VIPs perched under a roofed stand at Trocadéro signalled the start of the formalities.
"It's a huge honour to welcome you back after 100 years," said Tony Estanguet, the boss of the organising committee.
"There's been a big love story between France and the Olympics," added the three-time gold medallist in canoeing. "We have put our whole heart into welcoming you and we want to share everything that is most precious to us."
And paying tribute to the teams that instigated and executed the first opening ceremony outside a main stadium, Estanguet added: "We’ve been bold ... doing things that have never been done before with the desire to make the Games bigger.
"There are often times when we don't see eye to eye but in the moments that count, we can come together."
Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, which was set up by de Coubertin in 1894, added: "What better place than Paris to celebrate the Olympics, the birthplace of the IOC founder?"
Eiffel power
Addressing the athletes, Bach, a gold medallist for West Germany in the fencing at the 1976 Games in Montreal, insisted: "This is the pinnacle of your Olympic journey.
"Now you are Olympians like generations before you. Now you are part of something bigger than yourself.
"In our world there is no global south or global north. As Olympians we care for each other."
French football legend Zinedine Zidane, who appeared in the opening segment of the show to take the Olympic torch from comedian Djamel Debbouze at the Stade de France, turned up at Trocadéro to reclaim the torch.
He handed it on to the 14-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal. The torch then went through other sports stars such as the former tennis world number one Amélie Mauresmo and the former basketball player Tony Parker.
French Olympians Marie-José Perec and Teddy Riner combined to light the flame for the Games.
But the coup de théâtre came from the Canadian singer Céline Dion, who in her first public performance for four years following a battle with an illness that affected her voice, belted out from the Eiffel Tower the Edith Piaf song L'Hymne à l'amour.
All that remained from the Jolly good show were the lights and music. Cue the Eiffel power.
