Red carpet photos from the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony

PARIS, France — Stars of sports and entertainment are out at the Paris Olympics for the opening ceremony of the Summer Games. 

NFL Hall of Famer Peyton Manning, who will assist with NBC’s live television broadcast of the Paris Olympics, was among those who joined the red carpet Friday.

Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Kelly Clarkson, Vincent Cassel, Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White, Carl Lewis, and Prince Albert of Monaco and his wife Charlene were among dozens of celebrities who walked the red carpet Friday on an overcast morning in Paris.

Friday’s ceremony is the first-ever Summer Olympic opening ceremony not held in a stadium. Olympic organizers are turning one of the world’s most famous waterways, the River Seine, into the world’s biggest theatrical stage.

Instead of walking into a stadium, a four-mile-long flotilla of nearly 100 boats will carry thousands of athletes from more than 200 countries past hundreds of thousands of spectators seated on the banks of the Seine.

NBC will begin live coverage of the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony at 11:30 a.m. MT on Friday.

The opening ceremony will be broadcast on NBC, Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com and the NBC/NBC Sports apps, or in IMAX theaters.

Mike Tirico, Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning will serve as hosts of NBC’s opening ceremony coverage. “Today” hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb will also be part of the broadcast team.

After the Olympic cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony, there will be 16 more days of competition featuring about 10,500 athletes from more than 200 nations.

Eighty percent of competition venues are within 6.2 miles of the Olympic and Paralympic Village in Paris.

The Olympics will use historic locations throughout France for competition venues.

Some of the venues include Eiffel Tower Stadium for beach volleyball, the Palace of Versailles for equestrian, Roland-Garros stadium for tennis, and the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées for taekwondo and fencing.

Paris previously hosted the Olympics in 1900 and 1924, and will join London (1908, 1948 and 2012) as the only cities to host the Olympic Games three times.