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PARIS — With sunset and moonlight gleaming on the river, the grandiose opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics will last nearly four hours. A total of 205 delegations will parade on more than 80 boats on the Seine. The parade will drift slowly from from east to west along a six-kilometer route. Proceedings begin at 3:45 p.m. and finish at 11:15 p.m. local time. Around 320,000 fans will watch the athletes' parade from the embankments. Once the 10,500 athletes have disembarked, the final part of the ceremony takes place at the Trocadéro plaza overlooking the Eiffel Tower. But there are ongoing tensions surrounding the safety of the ceremony.
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