Not really a surprise: the French liked the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The organizing committee sought to measure this through an opinion survey, commissioned the next day from the Harris Institute. Its results, announced on Sunday July 28 during the daily press briefing of the OCOG Paris 2024 and the IOC, reveal themselves without nuance: 96% of those questioned declared themselves satisfied with the opening ceremony, and 86% estimated that it had been a success. Another figure from the survey, revealing the effect of the ceremony on the perception of the Games by the French public: 79% of respondents declared themselves “optimistic” for the continuation of the event. Almost eight out of ten French people, therefore. Extremely rare. The IOC also commissioned a survey, but expanded to around fifteen countries around the world. Its results are slightly lower than those displayed by Paris 2024, but they also reveal a success of the ceremony. More than three in four respondents (76%) said this opening was the most memorable they had seen. And 85% of them explained that it made them want to follow the rest of the Paris 2024 Games.
