OBS Paris Olympics Open captures the action of the Games amidst the host city’s iconic architecture

The Olympic Broadcasting Services open stream for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, combines active sports images while continuing the thematic elements used for years.

As in 2022, 2020-2021, 2018 and 2016, OBS continues to use stylized figures of athletes engaged in various activities amidst iconic French scenes and landmarks.

Locations featured in the sequence include the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Palace of Versailles, the Luxor Obelisk and the Jardin des Plantes, as well as broader depictions of French streets, rooftops, the Seine, bridges and Olympic venues.

The Open’s color palette focuses on blue-violet hues with various accents including teal, light brown, gold and lighter blues.

The final scene of the open features a sweeping view of the Seine and its bridges, with oversized versions of the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the glass pyramid of the Louvre looming on the horizon.

OBS Open was developed by Olympic Broadcasting Services, an organization founded by the International Olympic Committee to provide common services and standards to rights holders in the broadcasting industry.

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In a broader sense, the OBS acts as a kind of pool service provider for the RHBs, setting up and managing camera sites throughout the host city and venues for use by partner broadcasters.

OBS, in turn, uses the data from these cameras to produce sophisticated event feeds using modern sports broadcast standards and makes them available to the RHBs, who often broadcast them unmodified or combine them with their own live or recorded content, graphics, camera feeds and presenter and commentator intros.

This eliminates the costs of each RHB sending its own camera crew to the same locations to capture essentially the same footage. OBS also provides on-screen graphics with elements such as leaderboards and timing that are displayed to viewers around the world.

OBS creates its own opening each year to be used at the start of certain blocks of coverage, which in turn are provided to all broadcast partners. RHBs have the option of airing them as is, or overlaying their own logos and branding on them. Some leave them out altogether and use their own openings and introductory materials instead.

The OBS Open uses the circular flame logo of the French Organising Committee of Paris 2024. RHBs have the option to create their own logos, such as NBC’s diamond-shaped logo.