The extravagant opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics – a spectacle on the River Seine – came with a price tag of around €100 million, a government report has revealed. The cost has drawn criticism, with some estimates suggesting the total could exceed €120 million when security expenses are factored in.
Details of the spending were made public in an annex to France’s 2025 finance bill, which tracks public funding for sports. By contrast, the London 2012 opening ceremony cost just 30 million euros, raising questions about Paris’s big-budget approach.
