Boats, rain, Lady Gaga, lights usher in 2024 Summer Games

(Photo credit: Angelika Warmuth)
PARIS -- Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song near Notre-Dame cathedral, a giant plume of blue, white and red smoke was sent high above a bridge over the Seine and a winged man played accordion as the Olympics' opening ceremony marked the official start of the Summer Games in Paris on Friday.

A fleet of barges took athletes on a six-kilometer stretch of the river alongside some of the Fre