Xinhua Headlines: Olympic Games return to Paris with spectacular waterborne opening ceremony

by sportswriter He Leijing

PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- After a century-long wait, Paris welcomes back the Olympic Games with a splashy and "Seine-sational" opening ceremony, making itself a truly moveable feast.

French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open before the waterborne ceremony reached its climax when Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec lit the cauldron with the Olympic flame.

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