Australia will not wait until 2032 and the Brisbane Summer Games to get into Olympic mode. At the initiative of the New South Wales government, the Sydney Opera House will be illuminated on Sunday September 5, at 18:30 p.m. local time, with the faces of the 665 athletes who represented Australia at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. from Tokyo. An operation organized in collaboration with the national Olympic (AOC) and Paralympic (Paralympics Australia) committees. The face of each athlete will be projected individually onto the sail-shaped roof of the Opera for approximately 30 seconds. In total, the show should last more than five and a half hours. A photographer will immortalize the projection of each athlete. The photos will then be given as gifts to the athletes in recognition of their participation in the Tokyo Games. The AOC explains in a press release: this unique ceremony will replace the traditional parade of athletes in the streets of Sydney, made impossible this year due to restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. The screening will be streamed in its entirety.
