Key sections of the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were in jeopardy on Friday after a performing artists union announced a boycott of the extravaganza along the river Seine on 26 July unless organisers cleared up discrepancies in contract deals.
Around 3,000 dancers, musicians and actors will take to the banks of the river Seine and its bridges as part of the gala in which 10,000 athletes will be ferried six kilometres in a flotilla of vessels between Pont d'Austerlitz and the Pont d'Iena.
