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"I proclaim open the Olympic Games of London, celebrating the XIV Olympiad of the modern era." On 19 July 1952, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, President of Finland, opened the Olympic Games on Helsinki in exact format in English and Finnish: "I declare open the Olympic Games of Helsinki, celebrating the XV Olympiad of the modern era."
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!
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...
0–9. 1936 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; 1984 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; 1988 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
Entry to the venues opened at 17:30 CEST with the ceremony starting two hours later at 19:30 CEST. [34] 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 ...
In Spain itself it had an audience of 5,957,000 viewers in average, which represented a 62.4% share, making it, to date, the most viewed opening ceremony of the Olympic Games ever. [17] In the US, it had an estimated audience of 52 million viewers, with a Nielsen rating of 13.8 and an audience share of 29%.
Handover of the Olympic flag by young athletes Stéphane Préfontaine and Sandra Henderson (1976 Summer Olympic Games last torchbearers) representing the Montreal City. Although the mayor, Jean Drapeau , wished to attend, the US-led boycott was supported by the Canadian government which turned the trip to Moscow impossible.
The Queen declared the competition officially open, immediately followed by a trumpet fanfare based on a theme from Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield and then a fireworks display. [55] The 2012 ceremony was the second time the Queen had opened an Olympic Games, the first being the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in her capacity as Queen of Canada ...