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Celine Dion performs at Paris Olympics in first return to the stage since 2020
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Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance: closing out the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower.
Nearly two years after revealing her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf's "Hymne à l'amour" ("Hymn to Love") as the finale of the roughly four-hour spectacle. Her appearance had been teased for weeks, but organizers and Dion's representatives had refused to confirm whether she was performing.
On a page dedicated to Dior's contributions to the opening ceremony, the media guide referred to "a world star, for a purely grandiose, superbly scintillating finale."
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