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As of 2024, there have been 50 different individuals who opened either the Summer or Winter Olympic Games. Four of them have done so more than once. German führer Adolf Hitler was the first person to open more than one Olympic Games; he opened the 1936 Winter and Summer Olympics, both of which were hosted in Germany. He remains the only one to ...
2032 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; L. List of people who have opened the Olympic Games; List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron
Entry to the venues opened at 17:30 CEST with the ceremony starting two hours later at 19:30 CEST. [35] For the first time in Olympic history, the athletes were paraded on boats such as tourist boats, ferries and yachts, and also for the first time, the parade was integrated into the artistic programme, as the Seine was the main venue for the ...
The opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics was a turning point in the implementation of Olympic ceremonies and influenced those that followed. It was the first to be carried out at dusk, taking advantage of the darkness as a dramatic effect and playing with artificial lighting to give it more spectacularity, something that has become a ...
The opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games took place on the afternoon of Saturday, July 28, in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles.As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting event (including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes) with an artistic spectacle to ...
In 1976, Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada, opened the Montreal Olympics (first in French then in English) with: "I declare open the Olympic Games of 1976, celebrating the XXI Olympiad of the modern era." In 1980, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev opened the Moscow Summer Olympics by speaking in Russian: "Mr President of International Olympic Committee!
Speech by the President of the International Olympic Committee, Lord Killanin, his final Olympic Opening Ceremony speech. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev opened the Olympic Games. Handover of the Olympic flag by young athletes Stéphane Préfontaine and Sandra Henderson (1976 Summer Olympic Games last torchbearers) representing the Montreal City.
The opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday, July 19 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, United States.As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal and ceremonial opening of this international sporting event, including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes, with an artistic spectacle to ...