Official opening of the Winter Olympics. But our fans meet our team
The opening ceremony took place last Friday. Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Its budget was about $65 million.
“It was difficult to compete with previous ceremonies, but we are a small country and, despite the small budget, we put on a spectacular show.”
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2. If you compare it with, then there it lasted three hours and consisted of 13 parts, the Koreans completed it in just two and managed with a minimum number of artists - a total of about 2,000 people. This is less than at any other Olympics in the 21st century and 6 times less than in Sochi - there were almost a thousand gymnasts alone, but the total number of performers exceeded 12,000. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev):
3. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 occurred 160 km from the Olympic venue. However, it is claimed that the facilities for the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang 2018 were built taking into account seismic activity and are capable of withstanding a magnitude 7 earthquake. (Photo by Jae C. Hong):
4. “The opening ceremony of the Olympics took place in a pentagonal arena with a diameter of 72 meters. In the East everything makes sense. Five stands, located at a certain angle, symbolize ecology, culture, peace, economy and a focus on the forefront information Technology. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey):
5. As expected, the host side of the 2018 Olympics tried to show national traditions, the history of the country and convey all this spectacularly. Here the production designer used an ancient myth. Five children find themselves in a cave and meet mythical animals and birds. (Photo by Wang Zhao):
6. The main idea of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang 2018 was the theme of peace and unification. The main characters, children, from ancient times find themselves in a modern, futuristic world, which they, in fact, have to build. (Photo by Toby Melville):
7. The entire Olympic stadium was turned into an LED screen. You can write and give pictures around the entire perimeter of the stadium. This was the first time this had been done. (Photo by Mark Ralston):
8. (Photo by Ian MacNicol):
9. Dancing with fire is always spectacular. (Photo by Michael Sohn):
10. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach):
11. Korean soprano singer Hwang Soo Mi. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev):
12. In general, everything was quite traditional - both the figures of mythical animals and life-size dolls. Modest, but with deep meaning. (Photo by Jae C. Hong):
13. (Photo by Christophe Ena):
14. Team of Kazakhstan. (Photo by Rob Schumacher):
15. Team of the Pacific state of Tonga in Polynesia. (Photo by Jae C. Hong):
16. Ours. A Korean woman carries a sign that says “Olympic athletes from Russia.” The same is written on the clothes.
17. Her outfit was apparently made according to the principle “I made it out of what I had.” (Photo by Jae C. Hong):
18. The American edition of The Wall Street Journal considered Russian athletes the most stylish at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. The same author of an article from The Wall Street Journal also criticized the American uniform: “Fancy gloves, sweater, hat, belt, bandana for $125 - they looked like a typical tourist who goes on a ski resort in full dress, but at the same time he gets on his skis just to show off.”(Photo by Matthias Hangst):
19. An interesting incident occurred on the podium during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang - a fan from the United States unfurled the Russian flag. He explained his action this way:
“I want to support Russia because it was not allowed to send many strong athletes to the Olympics, such as Viktor An and Anton Shipulin. I think they should have performed here. I would like to “put politics aside” and simply express solidarity with Russian athletes.”
20. Carrying a torch. (Photo by Petr David Josek):
21. (Photo by Matthias Schrader):
22. (Photo by David J. Phillip):
23. The champion of the 2010 Games, South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna, was entrusted with lighting the fire of the Games. (Photo by Franck Fife):
25. (Photo by Mark Ralston):
26. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda):
27. By the way, this stadium is disposable; after the Olympics it will be dismantled. And here is the bowl olympic flame will remain untouchable. No wonder it was moved outside the stadium. (Photo by Aris Messinis):
I watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. All the most interesting things are in our text broadcast.
19.08 The Olympics are officially open! Good luck to the athletes!
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18.52 Some more photos from our correspondent
18.48 Beautiful!
18.43 Firework! Children light a fire
18.39 President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach speaks
18.28 There is a performance, a lot of light, technology and so on.
18.15 Kazakhstanis took their places in the stands
18.14 South and North Korea came out under one banner, one team!
18.11 Already a legendary standard bearer from Tongo!
18.09 And here are our fans meeting our team:
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18.04 Abzal Azhigaliev carried the flag of Kazakhstan
18.01 We came out after the Chilean team, after us Canada
18.00 Kazakhstan!
17.56 They showed Iran, Italy, Ukraine. We are waiting for Kazakhstan!
17.53 Police monitor security
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17.52 Kazakh fans are waiting for our team to come out.
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17.47 Sweden
17.42 Girls from Belarus!
17.40 The largest team is the USA! 242 athletes came from this country
17.38 Probably the most famous Korean song is playing at the stadium - Gangnam Style
17.36 We are waiting for Kazakhstan to come out. Bye Montenegro
17.32 Germany, some experts predict first overall team place
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17.30 Thomas Bach and Moon Jae-in
17.28 Here's Nigeria. This is how it all looks from the stands:
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17.27 There is a parade of participating countries. Always start with Greece
17.18 They take out the flag South Korea
17.15 Fans from Kazakhstan with a flag
17.09 While we are shown national dances, a tiger, a dragon, a fairytale bird. And surprised Korean children.
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17.04 These young Koreans greet the Russians
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17.03 And this is what the stadium looked like 20 minutes before the start of the ceremony.
16.55
We asked our correspondent in Pyeongchang to take photographs of Kazakh fans.
This is Karlygash-apa. I came to cheer for our team. Especially for speed skaters and figure skaters.
The 2018 Olympics starts on February 9! https://t.co/I6mcujm6WO and https://t.co/imLP62f2RR have prepared a list of Kazakh athletes from whom medals should be expected first of all.
From Kazakhstan, 49 athletes in nine sports will take part in the games pic.twitter.com/5mrYqtueZq
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Pyeongchang from February 9 to February 25. About 2,500 athletes will take part in them. They will compete for 102 sets of medals in 15 disciplines.
The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics will begin on February 9 at 14:00
Before the start XXIII winter There are three days left of the Olympic Games in South Korea. On February 9 at 20:00 local time (14:00 Moscow time) the opening ceremony of the 2018 Olympics will begin in Pyeongchang.
The parade will traditionally be opened by the Greeks, and the rest of the teams will go in alphabetical order (in Korean). The last to appear in front of the audience will be North Korean and South Korean athletes. U " Olympic athletes from Russia” will be the 55th serial number, and a volunteer will act as the team’s standard bearer.
“Championship” has launched an online broadcast of the upcoming opening ceremony, as well as all the main events that will precede it. Follow all the main events of Pyeongchang 2018 on a special page - Live.
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The Winter Olympic Games have been held since 1924. Previously, two winter sports - figure skating and hockey - were represented at the Summer Olympics. But at first the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix was timed Summer Games and was called “International Sports Week on the occasion of the VIII Olympiad.” The success of the competition was so great that it was decided to hold Winter Games with the same frequency as the Summer Olympics - once every four years.
This rule was broken twice. The 1940 and 1944 Olympics were canceled due to World War II. The second time the frequency changed for a pleasant reason. International Olympic Committee decided that it is not very good to hold both the Summer and Winter Games in the same year. And then the “white” Olympics were shifted by two years: so the XVI and XVII Winter Games in Albertville -92 and Lillehammer -94 were separated by only two years.
Disciplines and awards
At the first Winter Olympics in 1924, only 14 sets of medals were awarded. But with each Games, the number of participants and the number of disciplines grew, and there will already be more than 100 award ceremonies in Pyeongchang.
For 2018, the Winter Olympic sports include:
Skiing
Ski race
Ski jumping
Nordic combined
Freestyle
Snowboard
Figure skating
Skating
Short track
Skeleton
Luge
Hockey
Venues
Since winter sports require special infrastructure such as ice skating rinks, springboards, ski slopes and so on, the “white” Olympics were held only on three continents - in Europe, North America and Asia. Moreover, Asians ended up in this company. Only in 1972, when the Games took place in Sapporo, Japan. In fact, Asia should have appeared on this list much earlier. But in 1940, the Olympics in Sapporo was canceled due to World War II.
Russia and the USSR at the Winter Olympics
This is a paradox, but first gold medal V winter species Sports Russia won at the Summer Olympics. And this was generally the first in the history of the country olympic gold. At the 1908 Games in London, figure skater Nikolai Panin-Kolmenkin became the champion in the “special figures” discipline, which was no longer represented in the program at subsequent Olympics. It is noteworthy that Panin-Kolmenkin also participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but in pistol shooting competitions.
The USSR national team took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time in 1956. And she immediately won 7 gold medals, 3 silver and 6 bronze, becoming first in the unofficial team competition.
In 1992 after the collapse of the USSR Russian athletes competed as part of the united CIS team under the Olympic flag. And since 1994, the Russian national team has already been an independent team.
Winter Olympic Games records
Olympic records in winter competitions are recorded in only two sports: speed skating and short track speed skating. Because in all other disciplines where time or flight distance is recorded, for example in ski jumping, much depends on the topography of the tracks or the design of the sports facility itself.
Russian luger Albert Demchenko took part in seven Olympics! This is a kind of absolute Olympic record. His first Games were Albertville-92, and he finished his performances in Sochi-2014. True, Demchenko never managed to win gold - he only had three silver medals.
Lidiya Skoblikova won two gold medals at the 1960 games, and four more years later, four more, and is the only 6-time Olympic champion in speed skating.
Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen - 8-time Olympic champion. In Sochi, at the age of 40, he won three gold medals.
Karl-August Kronlund from Sweden is the oldest medalist at the Winter Olympics. He won silver in kroeling for Sweden at the age of 59 years and 155 days.
South Korean athlete Kim Yun Mi is the youngest champion. At the 1994 short track speed skating competition, she won the 3000 meter relay at the age of 13 years and 85 days.
0 February 9, 2018, 6:03 pmOpening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games - 2018
2018 started in Pyeongchang, South Korea. We tell you how the opening ceremony of the main sporting event of the year.
From February 9 to 25, South Korea will be the world's main newsmaker because of the 2018 Winter Olympics, the official opening of which took place today in Pyeongchang. The ceremony, as befits such a solemn occasion, turned out to be colorful, grandiose and emotional (even some athletes cried from the surging feelings!). The start of the show was given by a large-scale fireworks display, which, it seems, illuminated not only Olympic Stadium, but also the whole city.
The theatrical performance, which included children, was filled with South Korean and simply Eastern symbols (tigers, dragons, yin and yang, the song Gangnam Style by artist Psy), but by the end of the ceremony the emphasis shifted towards universal human values - equality, brotherhood, tolerance, unity. All this, by the way, was demonstrated by the joint team of the DPRK and South Korea, which marched under the flag of a united Korea.
Other teams also distinguished themselves during the parade of participating countries. Thus, from the delegation of the Kingdom of Tonga, the flag was carried by Pita Taufatofua, who captivated the audience at the last Olympics, in Brazil - with his muscular naked torso. That incident made the athlete famous, and he apparently decided to repeat his success by coming to the Winter Olympics: at this opening ceremony he again appeared bare-chested. And this despite the fact that the temperature was -8! It’s interesting that if two years ago Pita competed in a taekwondo tournament, now he’s... a skier.
