Olympics athletes arrive in Paris ahead of opening ceremony

The games will officially start on the 26th of July until the 11th of August.

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00:00A steady stream of athletes and support staff has started flowing through arrival terminals

00:06at Paris airports as the Olympic Games opening ceremony looms even closer.

00:11Maria Luisa Calderon, a fencer from Peru, has travelled to the French capital to take

00:16part in her third Olympiad, this time as her country's flag bearer.

00:21She couldn't be more excited.

00:22It's a dream come true, of course, we train so much for this, I've been doing my sport

00:32for 28 years, so yeah, this is going to be my third Olympic Games and I'm so excited

00:39to just begin, you know.

00:46A seasoned British athlete Kirsty Gilmore has a few tricks up her sleeve to ease the

00:50stress as she waits at the Olympic Village for her first badminton match.

00:56I brought my pillow from home, I brought a little candle from home, just trying to make

01:00it feel a bit more home-like and not a kind of, yeah, separate, very strict Olympic Village,

01:07so trying to make it a little bit comfy.

01:09The Games will officially start on the 26th of July.