Celine Dion's performance of Hymne a l'Amour provided a triumphant finale...But it took endurance to get there for the athletes, performers and spectators drenched by the summer rain, and for the viewers at home watching the ceremony as it was conceived by the French organizers and packaged by NBC and Peacock.
The decision to abandon the event's traditional format for a waterborne procession along the Seine intercut with performances had a twofold effect. It turned the ceremony into something bigger, more various and more intermittently entertaining. But it also turned it into something more ordinary, like a halftime show or awards show that exists to promote itself.
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