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The Olympic torch was relayed around the stadium by seven athletes, and was finally passed on to Li Ning, the former Olympic gymnast champion, the eighth and final athlete. The eight athletes were, in order: Xu Haifeng (shooting, China's first Olympic gold medalist in any event, 1984)
Olympic songs and anthems are adopted officially by International Olympic Committee (or by official broadcasters and partners selected by IOC), to be used prior to the Olympic Games and to accompany the games during the event. They are used as theme music in TV broadcast and also used in advertising campaigns for the Olympic Games. Some songs ...
The opening ceremonies included Grammy Award-winning artist LeAnn Rimes singing "Light the Fire Within," the official song of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Michael Kamen and Brian May composed a ten-minute orchestral piece, "The Fire Within", with Kamen conducting and May featured on guitar. "Gold". Linda Eder's 2002 single from the musical Camille ...
The torch relay was a spectacle in itself, as French soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane carried the flame through the cafes and skate parks of Paris, before passing it off—in a Métro tunnel—to ...
A three-time Olympic gold medalist in judo, he triumphed in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Games. All of this had been a tightly guarded secret until the Olympic torch snaked through a rainy Paris on ...
There is a sense of one-upmanship inherent in the Olympic ceremonies, which peaked over the 2008 and 2012 games. Beijing’s curtain-raiser – considered one of the greatest theatrical spectacles ...
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out filmed segment: recap of 1948 London Olympics, merging to the Olympic torch being lit in the Temple of Hera at Olympia in Greece and its progress throughout the UK on the Olympic torch relay, [116] ending with David Beckham and Jade Bailey in the speedboat on the Thames with the Olympic torch 01:13:35
PARIS (AP) — Lady Gaga delivered a dazzling performance as the first musical act during the Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony — except it was all prerecorded. The Grammy- and Oscar-winning ...