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The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday, 15 September 2000 in Stadium Australia, Sydney, during which the Games were formally opened by then-Governor-General Sir William Deane.
Adolf Hitler arriving at the opening ceremony of the controversial 1936 Berlin Games Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1931, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected the German capital city Berlin as the host city of the 1936 Summer Olympics.
The 2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony at Stadium Australia, on 15 September 2000. The opening ceremony began with a tribute to the pastoral heritage of the Australian stockmen and the importance of the stock horse in Australia's heritage.
In a glitzy opening ceremony that was meant to celebrate diversity, the Paris 2024 Olympics has ignited a firestorm of religious controversy. The organizers found themselves in hot water over a ...
UPDATED: Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics, has filed a second complaint on Aug. 3, along with two organizers of the event, Alexandre Billard and ...
1980 Summer Olympics boycott; 1984 Summer Olympics boycott; 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal; 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal; 2012 Olympics one minute of silence campaign; 2016 Summer Olympics ticket scandal; 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
The Paris Olympics opening ceremony — held not in a stadium but along the River Seine in the middle of a summer downpour — was both an audacious, awe-inspiring spectacle and a sloppy, rain ...
The Flame was lit during a ceremony in Olympia, as has been tradition at all the Summer Games since those in 1936. The Flame is initiated by using a parabolic mirror that concentrates the sun's rays. However, due to some cloud cover on the day of the ceremony, there was insufficient sunlight to create the required level of heat.