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The 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony was held at Beijing National Stadium, China on 4 February 2022. 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 showcase the host nation's winter culture and ...
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing officially kicked off with the opening ceremony. Here's a recap from our reporters in China.
A light show takes place at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place du Trocadero on July 26, 2024. Hector Vivas/Getty Images The City of Lights was lit up even brighter ...
Revolution ran like a high-voltage wire through the wacky, wonderful and rule-breaking Olympic opening ceremony that the French capital used to astound, bemuse and, at times, poke a finger in the ...
This was the first Winter Olympics and first Olympic Games opening ceremony under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. [2] [3] [4] This was also the second consecutive Winter Olympic opening ceremony to be held in an indoor stadium. The Games were officially opened by President Vladimir Putin. An audience of 40,000 were in attendance at the ...
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The site of the opening ceremony, Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, was built specifically for the Games.The pentagonal stadium seated 35,000. The organizers for the event said the shape was chosen because it is a combination of different traditional shapes - a circle, a square, and a triangle, which represent heaven, earth, and mankind.
A parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous fresco "The Last Supper" featuring drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris has sparked fury among the Catholic Church and far-right politicians ...