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Then came the "Oslo Ceremony" (so called because the original Olympic flag, which was used for transfer of the Winter Games, was first used at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo), which is the transfer of the replica of the Oslo Olympic Flag from the mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson, to Jacques Rogge, and then to the mayor of Turin, Sergio Chiamparino.
The closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 25 February 2018 from 20:00 to 22:05 KST . The ceremony took place at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang County , South Korea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The closing ceremony had 60,000 people in attendance, including 10,000 volunteers who received free admission. [1] It was the first Winter Olympics to stage a closing ceremony outdoors. [1] The closing ceremonies consisted of a Parade of Athletes less formal then the opening ceremonies as athletes from all nations paraded together. [2]
The 2018 Winter Olympics officially ended on Sunday with the closing ceremony held in the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium.
The 2022 Winter Olympics closing ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing on 20 February 2022. As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings are expected to combine the formal ceremonial closing of this international sporting event (including closing speeches, hoisting of the flags, the parade of athletes, and the handover of the Olympic flag) with an artistic ...
The closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics took place on February 28, 2010, beginning at 5:30 pm PST (01:30 UTC, March 1) at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was the first Olympic Closing Ceremony held in an indoor venue since the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
After delivering a star-studded opening ceremony that saw the comeback of Celine Dion, Paris Olympics artistic director Thomas Jolly is employing one of Hollywood’s biggest names for the Games ...
Following the conclusion of the ceremony protocol, it is not uncommon for the ceremony to continue on with an "afterparty" of concert performances as a finale; the 2000 Summer Games closing ceremony features various Australian musicians, the 2010 Winter Games closing ceremony featured various Canadian musicians, the 2016 closing ceremony ...