The national flags that will grace the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 have been revealed. NBA superstars LeBron James (USA), Yannis Atetokounmpo (Greece) and Dennis Schröder (Germany) are among the high-profile names on the list, which also includes a number of Korean taekwondo athletes.

The Paris Organizing Committee unveiled the list of flag bearers for the Opening Ceremony, which will take place at 2:30 a.m. ET on Sunday. Greece, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, will be the first to enter, followed by the refugee team. They will then enter in French alphabetical order. South Korea will be represented for the 48th time by Woo Sang-hyuk (Yongin City Hall) in athletics and Kim Seo-young (Gyeongbuk Provincial Office) in swimming. Host France will be the 205th, followed by the United States, which will host the next Olympic Games, and Australia, which will host in 2032, for the 204th and 203rd time, respectively.

The flag bearers include some of the best basketball players in the world, especially those who play in the NBA. The United States will be led by “living legend” James. James, who is 40 years old and has been playing professionally for 22 years, has won four NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, four NBA Finals titles, and MVP honors. He is also the first player in NBA history to score 40,000 career points and is the only player in history to reach 메이저사이트 the 40,000-110,000 mark, with 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists. In addition to James, the United States has assembled a dream team that includes Steph Curry and Jayson Tatum.

Atetokounmpo will be the first to enter the arena carrying the flag of Greece. Dubbed the “Greek Freak,” Atetokounmpo is a two-time NBA regular-season MVP and Finals MVP in the 2020-21 season after leading the Milwaukee Bucks to their first championship in 50 years in 2021. Germany's Schroder has also been playing in the NBA since 2013. Last year, he led Germany to the 2023 FIBA World Cup, winning both the title and MVP honors.

Jordan has two taekwondo athletes on its roster. Rama Aboaloub for the women and Elsharabati Saleh for the men. Saleh won a silver medal at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, losing to South Korea's Park Woo-hyuk in the men's 80-kilogram final of the taekwondo competition.

Other countries with taekwondo athletes as flag bearers include Saudi Arabia (Dunya Ali M. Abutaleb), Côte d'Ivoire (Cheick Salah Cisse), Lesotho (Michel Tau), Lebanon (Leticia Aoun), North Macedonia (Miljana Leljic), Niger (Abdoul Issoufou), Papua New Guinea (Gibson Kaogo Mara), Timor-Leste (Ana da Costa da Silva Pinto) and Uruguay (Maria Sara Griffoli Galliardo).