Paris 2024: Unforgettable moments from the Opening Ceremony one year on

Lady Gaga emerging from cabaret-style pink feathers to perform the iconic music-hall song 'Mon truc en Plumes' on the banks of the River Seine.

Portrait masterpieces from the Louvre Museum, rising out of the French capital's river.

Fashion models on a boat sashaying down a banquet-table runway.

Tennis star Coco Gauff geeking out over being a Flagbearer alongside basketball icon, LeBron James, for Team USA, on one of the 85 boats taking part in the Parade of Nations, which memorably floated down the rainy Seine towards the sparkling Eiffel Tower.

It can only be the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which took place one year ago today, 26 July, to open the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.

To celebrate the anniversary, Olympics.com picks just some of the plethora of iconic moments from the history-making ceremony that took place outside of a stadium for the first time in Olympic history.

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