VIDEO. Paris 2024 Olympics: “Everyone is crying”, unpublished images of Celine Dion's rehearsals before the opening ceremony

Celine Dion was moved to tears during rehearsals before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. screenshot – France 2

The Olympic Games Instagram account, Olympics, published this Sunday, December 29, 2024, an excerpt from Celine Dion's rehearsals before the opening ceremony. A particularly moving moment.

“Even the rehearsals made everyone in the room cry,” underlines a post from the official Instagram account of the Olympic Games under a video posted this Sunday, December 29, 2024.

In the images, Celine Dion, alone on stage, sings “The Hymn to Love” by Edith Piaf 24 hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26.

“She sings and she cries”

The singer is moved to tears, as is artistic director Thomas Jolly, who comments: “She sings and she cries. And everyone cries.”

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She “sings true”

This video is the teaser for a 90-minute documentary telling the behind-the-scenes story of the Paris Olympics, BFM points out. Published on the website olympics.com, the film, named “La Grande Seine – The Complete Story”, was directed by Manuel Herrero.

Thomas Jolly had already explained on BFM that he had chosen Céline Dion because she “sings true”. “She told me, even in the middle of a storm, in the middle of a thunderstorm, she would have climbed”, he confided in a Red Line dedicated to the singer.

Stiff Man Syndrome

As a reminder, the singer of “My heart will go on” suffers from stiff man syndrome, a rare neurological condition that affects one in a million people and causes muscle stiffness and uncontrollable spasms.