Now, with the opening ceremonies due to take place Aug.
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Opening ceremonies are Friday, and the Games run through Feb. 25.
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People didn't feel like being bombed out of the Opening Ceremonies.
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But aside from that, the opening ceremonies [are] always my favorite.
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People didn't feel like being bombed out of the opening ceremonies.
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Here's what the opening ceremonies were supposed to look like live.
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Vice President Pence's presence at the Opening Ceremonies increases the possibility he may meet, if only in passing, with North Koreans attending the Olympics, including Kim Jong-Un's younger sister — a surprise guest at the Opening Ceremonies.
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The opening ceremonies are actually two days later, on Friday the 5th.
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Left: Vendors sell food to American tourists ahead of the opening ceremonies.
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Two weeks ago, at opening ceremonies, we met and a friendship began.
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The U.S. election was not mentioned in speeches at the opening ceremonies.
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North and South Korean athletes carried the torch in the opening ceremonies.
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The hearing was held two days prior to the Turin Opening Ceremonies.
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Do you remember walking into the opening ceremonies with the U.S. Team?
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After sitting out the previous three, finally got to walk in Opening Ceremonies!
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It even made an (unexpected) appearance at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Rio.
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Guess I will have to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremonies on a stream.
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The opening ceremonies, expected to be watched by billions, kick off tomorrow night.
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The opening ceremonies will make you wonder what the fuck you just watched.
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I'm glad I went to both, but my favorite was the Opening Ceremonies.
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Even before the opening ceremonies in London, controversy was brewing around the competition.
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A hallmark of the the opening ceremonies, of course, is the Olympic flame.
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One of Brazil's most renowned filmmakers, Fernando Meirelles, will direct the opening ceremonies.
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A dog walks past the Kosevo Stadium, where the opening ceremonies were held.
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As far as opening ceremonies for The Bachelor go, this one was pretty tame.
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"I was scared," she said in an interview the morning of the Opening Ceremonies.
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There's a reason why U.S. presidents rarely attend sporting events outside Olympic opening ceremonies.
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This difference of opinion was on full display during the Winter Olympics' opening ceremonies.
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Apple will air it for the first time during the Olympic Opening Ceremonies tomorrow.
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We're just one month away from the Olympic opening ceremonies in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
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Foreign leaders gawked at gleaming architecture and opening ceremonies that signaled the nation's ambitions.
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Both men confirmed that preparations were on track for the opening ceremonies on August 5.
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Seeing my daughter walking in the opening ceremonies will forever be my greatest Olympic moment.
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And with the festivities for the Games beginning with the opening ceremonies at 8 p.m.
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North Korea and South Korea will march together under one flag during the opening ceremonies.
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Some 3.4 million more people watched the Sochi opening ceremonies than watched those in PyeongChang.
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The two Koreas marched together in the Olympic opening ceremonies in 2000, 2004 and 2006.
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Two years later, he represented the country during opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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Also present for the opening ceremonies were British musician James Blunt and American actor Morgan Freeman.
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So far, 52 million people have interacted with content on Facebook related to the Opening Ceremonies.
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Pence was in South Korea for the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
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I have to be at my friend's apartment by 12:30 at the latest for Opening Ceremonies.
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On Wednesday, more than two weeks before the opening ceremonies, troops appeared on popular beaches, including Copacabana.
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They'll also have a place of honor during the traditional "parade of nations" during the Opening Ceremonies.
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But Secretary of State John Kerry did join the athletes and was present for the opening ceremonies.
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Takada became PRIDE's spokesperson and mascot, playing the taiko drum in many of PRIDE's flamboyant opening ceremonies.
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Later that month, she attended the opening ceremonies of the Invictus Games for wounded warriors, in Toronto.
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Couric last co-hosted the opening ceremonies for NBC with Bob Costas in Athens, Greece, in 2004.
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The Post said Pence, who led the U.S. delegation at the opening ceremonies to the Olympics Feb.
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Orders spiked by 30 percent in Brazil during the four-hour broadcast of the Opening Ceremonies August 5.
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"After sitting out the previous three, finally got to walk in Opening Ceremonies!" he captioned the Twitter photo.
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German Madraza, 43, will represent Mexico in cross-country skiing, and was flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremonies.
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The 2016 Rio Games will kick off with the Opening Ceremonies, which begin on Friday at 7 p.m.
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Olympic figure skating competition will be aired on Thursday night, and opening ceremonies will be shown on Friday.
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It will make its debut on NBC Friday night during the opening ceremonies for the Rio Summer Olympics.
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Members will also have a place of honor during the traditional "parade of nations" during Friday's Opening Ceremonies.
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The two countries marched under the same flag, and Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, attended the opening ceremonies.
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It's kind of like the parade of nations at Olympic opening ceremonies, a scripted exercise with nothing surprising happening.
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Now a more insidious attack has surfaced, one designed not to merely embarrass, but disrupt the opening ceremonies themselves.
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This story has been updated to reflect that Intel pulled the live version of its opening ceremonies drone show.
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So, long before the Olympics opening ceremonies, there was another sport taking over the world: fighting over Suicide Squad.
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According to Apex Marketing Group, Phelps has appeared in over 67,000 broadcasts on TV and radio since opening ceremonies.
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Like, incredibly fast—88 miles per hour in a DeLorean fast—considering the Opening Ceremonies haven't even happened yet.
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The opening ceremonies of the Texans' late-afternoon game against the Seattle Seahawks were not broadcast live on CBS.
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The United States is also sending Vice President Mike Pence to lead the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies.
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The attack took down internet and Wi-Fi access during the opening ceremonies, as well as the event's website.
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The 1968 Olympic Games were memorable for a number of reasons, starting with Basilio's appearance in the opening ceremonies.
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As for Lund, he found out that CAS reinstated his ban as he was dressing for the opening ceremonies.
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The Rio Olympics opening ceremonies get underway at 7 pm Eastern today in Rio de Janeiro's famous Maracanã Stadium.
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Vice President Pence reportedly did not stand when the joint Korean delegation entered at the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies.
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ACT UP disrupts the opening ceremonies of the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in San Francisco on June 20, 1990.
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North and South Korea eventually walk into the Olympics opening ceremonies together while Kim's sister sits in the stands watching.
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Olympic officials have confirmed that a cyber attack took place during the event's opening ceremonies in Pyeongchang, according to Reuters.
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Olympics The Rio Games officially get under way today, with billions around the world set to watch the opening ceremonies.
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Staged along the California coast, the opening ceremonies featured appropriately outlandish announcements (like the $22015 million 21960,22017-horsepower Bugatti Divo).
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They'll also march under one flag at the opening ceremonies, which has only happened a handful of times since 1991.
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The timing is perfect now, as we just saw Macedonia walk in the Olympic opening ceremonies behind the letter "A".
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A good chunk of our sports desk has relocated to Rio to cover the Olympics, whose opening ceremonies come Friday.
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Exactly three years later, Herring marched in the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics as the U.S. boxing team's captain.
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He'll be writing regular updates—like this one, from a protest outside the Opening Ceremonies—as the Games go on.
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Prior to the opening ceremonies, some of these athletes spoke with CNBC Make It about what it takes to succeed.
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By 2008, those undertones became overtones, with Zhang's most widely seen work ever: the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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The North Korean and South Korean delegations marched together in the opening ceremonies, under a flag emblazoned with a unified Korea.
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Harry's girlfriend, Meghan Markle, also made a much-anticipated appearance at the Invictus Games, first, at the opening ceremonies on Sept.
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Muto said his next dream is to perform at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020.
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They also want to reassure travelers who plan to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Harry's girlfriend, Meghan Markle, also made a much-anticipated appearance at the Invictus Games, first, at the opening ceremonies on Sept.
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Three days before the opening ceremonies, while all our equipment was still in the Village, we lost internet and cell service.
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The U.S.G.A. also wants to include the Shinnecock in the event's opening ceremonies and during the trophy presentation at its conclusion.
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Back in 2018 the opening ceremonies for the League of Legends World Championships featured an incredible augmented reality K-pop performance.
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And the Pyeongchang opening ceremonies could serve as the opening to a crucial and much farther-reaching exchange of international dialog.
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I skipped the fanfare of the opening ceremonies and just joined the march, taking off my media hat and observing my surroundings.
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Click here to view original GIFAside from the opening ceremonies, how many Olympic events did you watch over the past few weeks?
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That year she was also one of the Olympic torchbearers and participated in the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in Atlanta.
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The 31-year-old, who will compete in swimming and sit volleyball, will also have a special role in the opening ceremonies.
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It also comes 200 days before Rio de Janeiro hosts the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics, the first in South America.
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Eddie's teammates haze him out of an appearance at the Opening Ceremonies, while Jackman tears Eddie a new asshole for enjoying himself.
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The International Olympic Committee approved their participation and said delegations from the two countries plan to march in the opening ceremonies together.
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He'll need a shirt for this one Remember that shirtless Tongan guy who lit up the Opening Ceremonies at the Summer Olympics?
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Pence and Kim Yo Jong attended the opening ceremonies in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and were seated just feet away from one another.
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North and South Korean athletes walk out under the same unified flag during the opening ceremonies and compete as a single country.
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Pence sought a meeting with Rippon, who had criticized the choice to have Pence lead the U.S. delegation at Friday's opening ceremonies.
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They invented the modern Olympics, the Nazis: carrying the torch from Greece to the Olympics never happened before; all the opening ceremonies.
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That victory was probably part of the reason that Murray was selected as Team U.K.'s flag bearer at this year's Opening Ceremonies.
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Collectors can also buy his mask, his skates, a stick, his pads and even the the outfit he wore to the opening ceremonies.
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He ultimately made it to the game – five hours after he initially started his commute, but not in time for the opening ceremonies.
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To add insult to injury, the network hired former "Today" show star Katie Couric as a one-off host for the opening ceremonies.
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North Korea plans to send a 22-member delegation to the opening ceremonies, headed by the 90-year-old chairman of its Parliament.
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Millions of tourists flock to see the palace each year, especially to see the traditional Changing of the Guard and Summer Opening ceremonies.
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The organizers of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, said Sunday that a cyber attack took place during the opening ceremonies Friday.
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During opening ceremonies, the horse-race-loving Sambora will sing the nostalgic song – which happens to be the official anthem of the historic track.
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A super generator will feed Maracanã stadium for the opening ceremonies, a precaution adopted at the World Cup with Light providing additional back up.
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Of course, next year's summer Olympics are scheduled to kick off in Tokyo just weeks after that ... with opening ceremonies slated for July 24.
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"He was telling us to enjoy the moment, enjoy opening ceremonies, don't worry about me, you be you," the team captain, Maggie Steffens, said.
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Later in the day, Trump met with Team USA, posing for a team photo and gave brief, encouraging remarks ahead of the opening ceremonies.
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By Thursday last week, a day before the opening ceremonies, the disease was still spreading, with the official tally of confirmed cases rising to 128.
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"I actually remember watching the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics from my hospital bed," she said at the Los Angeles media summit in March.
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With the opening ceremonies for the 2016 Rio Olympics only a few weeks away, concerns are growing about Brazil's level of preparedness for the games.
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"After the competition I'm open to meeting him and having an open conversation, but opening ceremonies are tomorrow and I've been really focused," he added.
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" Of the possibility then that he would earn a spot on Team USA, Gerard said, "If I make it, I would love the opening ceremonies.
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And on Friday, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark returned to the world's biggest sporting spectacle for the Opening Ceremonies in Rio.
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Emmanuel, who is a native of Liberia, carried the Liberian flag during the Olympic opening ceremonies, and gushed about the privilege in an Instagram post.
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You can catch it again tonight at 5p ET: U.S. vice president Mike Pence stands next to his wife, Karen Pence, at the opening ceremonies.
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It would be quite a sight to see "Greece" walk in at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies behind the letter "F" like Macedonia is forced to.
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Pence is unable to attend because he will be in South Korea to lead the U.S. delegation at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.
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Relatives of those killed have long demanded a minute's silence at the Opening Ceremonies of Olympics Games, only to be turned down by the IOC.
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Following Thursday's opening ceremonies, Nicklaus and Player made their way to the media center for a news conference while Palmer disappeared into the club house.
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The news was welcomed by top officials at the United Nations, where Secretary General António Guterres has said he plans to attend the opening ceremonies.
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The opening ceremonies were to have included a Solemn Mass of the Holy Spirit, at St.-Germain l'Auxerrois, with excerpts from "Parsifal" on the organ.
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But the pageantry of the opening ceremonies belied simmering tensions that threaten to boil when the Games conclude and U.S.-South Korea military exercises resume.
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On the first morning of the festival, opening ceremonies were delayed an hour and several of the day's events canceled or rescheduled because of the hartal.
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While details had been kept largely under wraps beforehand, opening ceremonies customarily trace the history and culture of the host country and Friday's was no different.
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North Korea was a key topic on the mind of Vice President Pence, who attended the Olympics opening ceremonies, when he addressed the CPAC crowd Thursday.
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Kim attended the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, sitting in the same box as the Moon and US Vice President Mike Pence.
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"After the competition I'm open to meeting him and having an open conversation, but opening ceremonies are tomorrow and I've been really focused," he said Thursday.
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And there was the awkward cold shoulder he gave Kim Yo Jong sister during the Olympic opening ceremonies — despite the meeting scheduled for the next morning.
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Pence, as the leader of the US delegation, sat in the same VIP box as Kim during the opening ceremonies — just a few feet away from her.
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And it is simply pathetic to keep watching Macedonian athletes walk in the Olympic opening ceremonies behind a sign that literally says "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".
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The members were literally standing in front of banners with the company names on it, standing there in the opening ceremonies with banks labeled all over it.
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As World Cup opening ceremonies go, it was low-key, but what was not missing was the passionate chants of fans from both sides of the turf.
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The fashion house designed a case to house the Worlds championship trophy, and it featured five LCD panels that reflected what was happening during the opening ceremonies.
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Organizers have not disclosed much publicly about the incident, which disrupted internet access and Wi-Fi during the opening ceremonies and also took the Olympics website offline.
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Last-minute "impromptu logistical changes" kept Intel from performing its drone light show live during the opening ceremonies for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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Officials in Pyeongchang had already acknowledged that the Winter Games were hit by a cyberattack during the February 9 opening ceremonies but hadn't said who did it.
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A day before the opening ceremonies, I got hopelessly lost trying to navigate the vast triangle and walked down a long paved lane lined with cables and units.
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The IOC, whose president Thomas Bach was also present, has said opening ceremonies are not the appropriate platform and has instead made other gestures to remember the victims.
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Pence abruptly left the summit's opening ceremonies and returned to his hotel in time to make secure phone calls to congressional leaders to tell them about the strikes.
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The refugee team will also be given a place of honor during the game's opening ceremonies in August, marching behind the Olympic flag and before host team Brazil.
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The 2016 Olympic Games already stand to go down as one of the greatest Olympic calamities in modern history—and the opening ceremonies are still two weeks away.
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Blizzard announced the game at the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon 2019 in Anaheim, California, and it marks the first entry in the series since 2012's Diablo III.
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Of course, Pita shot to stardom during the 2016 Olympics in Rio (he competed in taekwondo) when he carried the flag of Tonga during opening ceremonies ... sans top.
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"When I was really young, I always thought of the Olympians that walked in the opening ceremonies as the greatest-athletes-in-the-world type of thing," Spieth said.
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"At best, stagnation is expected for 21," said Steve Rich, a vice president with auto supplier Autoneum, during the opening ceremonies of the show, which runs through April 234.
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Snapping into the regulation Nazi salute, Bund members hail the swastika banner as it is paraded during the opening ceremonies of the pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
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"Sloan Scott Quinn 6lbs 5 oz and 20.5 inches long!" the new mom added of her daughter, who was born just hours before the Opening Ceremonies commenced in Rio.
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Couric, who co-hosted Today for 15 years before leaving in 2006, previously hosted Opening Ceremonies during the Olympics in Sydney, Australia; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Athens, Greece.
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But this year's games are especially troubled, and with the opening ceremonies less than 100 days away, the call to cancel Rio's Summer Olympics has reached a fever pitch.
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When we speak on the phone, Doris is just a few weeks from heading to Rio de Janeiro, the big August 5 opening ceremonies creeping ever closer like Christmas.
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What happened: Officials in Pyeongchang have acknowledged that they experienced a cyber attack that caused disruptions to the internet, broadcast systems and the Olympics website during the opening ceremonies.
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Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Eileen Filler-Corn (D) arrives before the start of opening ceremonies of the 2020 Virginia General Assembly at the statehouse on Wednesday.
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In the past, two Koreas have marched together during the Olympic opening ceremonies under a neutral "unification flag" but competed with separate national teams during the actual sporting events.
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The Houston Texans cheerleaders enter the field surrounded by smoke and flame during the opening ceremonies of the season opening NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in Houston, Sept.
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Getty ImagesIn addition to the cutting of a large red ribbon at the tunnel's opening ceremonies, there was a modern dance performance that took place at the tunnel's entrance today.
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The two countries marched together at the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympics and of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the same year they held their first summit meeting.
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Pele is arguably Brazil's greatest athlete of all time, and so having him miss out on the big moment of tonight's Olympic opening ceremonies in Rio just doesn't feel right.
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The strange fate of Olympic opening ceremonies is that they inevitably segue into the visually monotonous parade of nations, two hours of waves, hideous national costumes and rampant selfie taking.
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" Rippon last month said he didn't support the decision to send Pence to lead the U.S. delegation at Friday's opening ceremonies, saying that the vice president backed "gay conversion therapy.
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The vice president caused a stir in the media when he was seated a few feet away from Kim Yo Jong during the opening ceremonies, but did not acknowledge her.
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No wonder Shani Davis, a five-time Olympic speed skater who won the gold in the 1,000-meter races in 2006 and 2010, skipped attending the opening ceremonies last week.
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Based on the viewership of the 2012 Summer Games in London, however, there are a good 40 million Americans who tune in just for the spectacle of the opening ceremonies.
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Read on for a survey of the highlights and increasing spectacle of the past eight Summer Olympics opening ceremonies, and how each one raised the bar from what came before.
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And then there was the awkward cold shoulder he gave Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong during the Olympic opening ceremonies — despite the meeting scheduled for the next morning.
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Look out for Snapchat videos of the opening ceremonies and Instagram posts from inside the arenas, and see 27 of our favorite compelling athletes to follow on social media before Rio.
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The memorial offers some comfort for relatives who have also long demanded a minute's silence at the Opening Ceremonies of Olympics Games, only to be consistently turned down by the IOC.
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Obviously, I am talking about what I hope will be your decision to decline the position as flag bearer in opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Rio De Janeiro on Friday.
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As the world's attention turns to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics opening ceremony — airing Friday morning stateside — take a look back at the most dramatic and emotional moments of opening ceremonies past.
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As your favorite athletes kick their intense training into high gear for the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero (the opening ceremonies are tonight!), so are your favorite fashion brands.
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Its new owners banned the use of grid girls in January, saying that it would no longer use female models in opening ceremonies at grands prix because the practice was inappropriate.
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There are cheerleaders and drums and inflatable Q-tips everywhere, with people waving them around in unison to different songs as if they were practicing for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
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His voice rises and breaks a little when he lets it slip that he's just read in a Guyanese newspaper that he's meant to be the country's flagbearer in the opening ceremonies.
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The father of Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American who died after being jailed in North Korea, will accompany Vice President Pence to the Winter Olympics' opening ceremonies in South Korea.
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Heavily armed soldiers guarded the Maracana stadium, host of the 2014 soccer World Cup final, on Wednesday during a test run of the opening ceremonies that lit up the skies with fireworks.
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When French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel launched his new start-up incubator last month, President Emmanuel Macron attended the opening ceremonies in Paris and delivered a rousing speech to the 2,000 attendees.
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"After the competition I'm open to meeting him and having an open conversation, but opening ceremonies are tomorrow and I've been really focused," Rippon, who is taking part in his first Olympics, added.
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Neo-Nazi protesters organized by the National Socialist Movement demonstrate near the site of the grand opening ceremonies of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois, on April 19, 2009.
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Much like swimmer Michael Phelps, who carried the flag during the opening ceremonies, Biles will hold the flag and march Team USA out of the Olympics — where it's earned 108 medals so far.
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Kim agreed to a joint Democratic People's Republic of Korea-Republic of Korea team for the Pyeongchang Olympics, and then sent his sister and the DPRK Cheer Team to attend the opening ceremonies.
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The opening ceremonies are playing out this morning, but were preceded by a shocking statement from the head of Russia's Family, Women, and Children Committee in the lower house of parliament, Tamara Pletnyova yesterday.
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For the past decade or so, the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics have taken on the screen-filling dizziness and the ooooh-inducing chutzpah of that other mid-year spectacle, the summer blockbuster.
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Below, take a look at the inside of Estédio Jornalista Mério Filho – or as it's more popularly known, Maracanã Stadium – during the opening ceremonies, as captured through the lenses of athletes, networks and more.
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For the opening ceremonies, she went date-night chic, wearing a purple dress from Aritzia, a Canadian brand, and a coordinating leather jacket, also in a deep purple hue, from another Canadian brand, Mackage.
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But while the band was missing from the Olympics, their song "DNA" — the other of their pair of 2017 hits — did at least play during the opening ceremonies, much to the delight of fans.
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North and South Korea just announced plans for their athletes to train together in advance of the Winter Olympics and enter the opening ceremonies as one team, under the flag of a reunified Korea.
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While BlizzCon's opening ceremonies took place on the afternoon of November 1st, the preliminary rounds began on Thursday, October 31st, when Team Hong Kong would face off against Team Paraguay in their first match.
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In addition to overseeing the usual pomp and circumstance that accompany Olympic opening ceremonies, organizers have also had to make preparations to alleviate the cold at the open-air Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, Reuters said.
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Similar technologies have allowed the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku to tour with real bands, and Riot Games has made augmented reality concerts a staple of the opening ceremonies for its League of Legends World Championships.
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So every year, every Olympics, there's this consistent narrative, where a certain number of people complain about tape-delayed sports, and in ... the opening ceremonies are on tape-delay ... this is live, this isn't.
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But with so much already being streamed live, both online and on television, it is a wonder why NBC refuses to budge, especially given that live opening ceremonies traditionally get better ratings than tape-delayed.
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Pita Taufatofua nearly busted the internet the last time he showed up at the Olympics, slathered in coconut oil and carrying the Tongan flag during the opening ceremonies for the 2016 summer games in Rio.
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Batista's bribery conviction was linked to the rights to run Brazil's most famous soccer stadium, the Maracana in Rio, which held the 2014 World Cup final and the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Olympic Games.
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And it was pretty great: After finishing up the pre-game opening ceremonies, Big Papi ripped off his Red Sox jersey to reveal that he was wearing a "Girl Power" shirt underneath the entire time.
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Pence said leading up to the Olympics that he intended to use his appearance at the opening ceremonies to push back against any favorable media narrative the North Koreans generated by attending the Winter Games.
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"[Mangione] flew himself out on his own dime to play at the opening ceremonies — he plays the flugelhorn and the trumpet — because he in fact actually played at the Olympics in Lake Placid," Kinsey shared.
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It allows for a hilarious cross-cut sequence between archival footage of runners in the real 1984 Olympics opening ceremonies and shots of Brooke running haplessly through the woods as she's chased by Mr. Jingles.
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On the night of the 2016 Olympics' opening ceremonies in Rio, Trump posted an image of himself to Twitter and Facebook, giving a thumbs-up with the words "Big League" and "Good Luck Team USA" overlaid.
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Until then, collaboration at major sporting events was generally limited to joint processions under a unified flag during opening ceremonies, said Udo Merkel, an expert on international sports events at the University of Brighton in Britain.
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The scenes with the synchronized drummers recall the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, and the dense forest of arrows and the spear movements of the bungee-jumping female fighters are like those seen in Peking Opera.
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As the opening ceremonies live snafu underscores, getting these drones capable of flying in extreme conditions involves some fine-tuning of a Shooting Star drone design that has otherwise remained fairly consistent over the last two years.
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Not only is the opening ceremonies performance incredible to watch — especially as AR versions of the K/DA skins glide across the stage or emerge from the air — but the song is also a straight up banger.
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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab found evidence that the Olympic Destroyer malware, which briefly downed Pyeongchang systems in advance of this year's olympics opening ceremonies, was a false flag operation trying to pin the attacks on North Korea.
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Trampolinist Rosie MacLennan, who won Canada's only gold four years ago, is back to defend her Olympic title and will lead the team of 187 women and 126 men into the Rio Games opening ceremonies on Aug.
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More recently, tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem to have cooled, with the two Koreas engaging in talks along their heavily fortified border and agreeing to march in this week's Olympic opening ceremonies together under one flag.
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Yeah. The X-Games kind of people that I don't really cover, though it's not because I don't care but to me, I'm a traditionalist, so give me the opening ceremonies, closing ceremonies, figure skating, speed skating.
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Meirelles is the latest beneficiary of the recent tradition of host nations turning their opening ceremonies over to one of their best directors — in this case, the Oscar-nominated man behind City of God and The Constant Gardener.
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Click here to view original GIFIn today's 'I can't believe they've been funded' news, a startup called Star-ALE wants to create a man-made meteor shower over the city of Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics opening ceremonies.
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Citing officials from the US intelligence community, the Post says that Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) gained access to around 300 computers, hacked routers, and distributed malware in the lead-up to and during the event's opening ceremonies.
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Unlike the opening ceremonies in Beijing in 2008 and London 2012, a financially constrained Brazil had little choice but to put on a more "analogue" show, with minimal high-tech and a heavy dependence on Brazil's Carnival party traditions.
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PARIS(Reuters) - Athletes from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Russia were among the thousands of people convening in Paris on Saturday for the opening ceremonies of the 20.8645th Gay Games, which aim to raise awareness about gay and transgender rights.
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Even so, Mr. Blackmun emphasized last week in his fifth-floor office in downtown Colorado Springs, decorated with oversize photographs of American athletes marching in various opening ceremonies, that the United States was exclusively focused on hosting in 2024.
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In the build up to Friday's opening ceremonies for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the royal trio released a video sharing their best wishes for the 366 athletes competing as a part of Great Britain's Olympic team.
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Last year, at the League of Legends World Championship in Incheon, the biggest moment of the event arguably wasn't the competition itself: it was a virtual K-pop group called K/DA that performed an AR concert during the opening ceremonies.
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So when the Russians, historically an Olympic powerhouse, marched into Rio's Maracana Stadium at the Opening Ceremonies on Friday, they confronted the fallout (and perhaps a preview of what was to come in competition): a decidedly mixed reaction from the crowd.
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I always loved watching the opening ceremonies through the years and the Olympic games are one of my favorite sporting events to watch," adds Bündchen, who will walk the world's longest runway to an appropriate song, "The Girl from Ipanema.
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If you're hoping to witness the opening ceremonies live, you'll have to get up at 83 am Eastern/3 am Pacific on Friday and log in to NBC online or the NBC app, as NBC is the Olympics official broadcaster.
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The North's participation in the games has not yet led to talks between the U.S. and North Korea, with officials from the two countries, including Vice President Pence, sitting just feet away from each other without speaking at the opening ceremonies.
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The Summer Olympics are fast approaching — opening ceremonies are set for August 5 — and no matter where you are in the world, one of the best ways to stay up to date on what's going on in Rio is through social media.
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We're not exactly sure, but this feels eerily similar to the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies, where fireworks were digitally added to television feeds because officials were fearful that they would not be able to capture the true beauty of the real firework display.
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This year's Olympics was already home of a few firsts for Phelps – he served as the flag bearer for his first-ever march with Team USA during the Opening Ceremonies and it also marks the first Olympics since he became a dad.
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After Tuesday's opening ceremonies, competition is scheduled to get underway on Wednesday while at the same time more than a million people along the U.S. southeast coast will be fleeing the Category 2777 storm and winds of 2125 miles per hour (2000 kph).
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Protesters jeered Brazil's new President Michel Temer on Wednesday as he participated in the county's Independence Day parade in Brasilia and the opening ceremonies of the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, his first official events since taking office on Aug. 31.
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"This is going to be a very, very difficult thing for me to do to watch the opening ceremonies and watch my peers compete for a gold medal ... and watch people stand on the stage and hear the national anthem playing," added Spieth.
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" But with this experience comes wisdom – and she has a few tips to pass along to her fellow competitors: Take it all in and always attend the Opening Ceremonies your first year, for one, because "you never know if you're going to go back.
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Over the weekend, the Pyeongchang Olympics organizers confirmed that they're investigating a cyberattack that temporarily paralyzed IT systems ahead of Friday's opening ceremonies, shutting down display monitors, killing Wi-Fi, and taking down the Olympics website so that visitors were unable to print tickets.
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The NBC documentary offers a look into the life and career of Ali through the prism of the 133 Rome Olympics, where he won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal, and the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta where Ali lit the torch during opening ceremonies.
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The question of whether or not Rio can pull off the Olympic Games has been debated for months, but with the Opening Ceremonies less than three months away, the rhetoric is becoming more urgent: Is it possible that the Olympics would ever be postponed?
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For example, NBC chose to save popular events, competitions with big-name athletes, and even the opening ceremonies (which were last seen live in the US in 1996!) for more lucrative prime-time television slots, even when the actual event had taken place hours beforehand.
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The opening ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro are well underway, but thanks to the magic of Instagram, you don't have to be in Brazil – or watching NBC's delayed-by-an-hour broadcast – to be all caught up on what's happening.
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"Yesterday (just in time for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies) @bradyquinn and I welcomed our little blessing of a daughter into the world," Sacramone, 28, wrote alongside a black-and-white photo of the couple in their hospital garb, cuddling their baby girl after the birth.
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It's kind of a PowerPoint-heavy Opening Ceremonies, minus musical numbers, and the ballroom is full of launch vehicle makers, propulsion companies, component constructors, New Space upstarts, Old Space stalwarts, spaceport representatives, and also the guy who sent the first hot dog toward space.
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"Two weeks ago, at opening ceremonies, we met and a friendship began," Kenworthy wrote alongside a picture of himself posing at Sunday's closing ceremony with the 28-year-old athlete, who was wearing the bronze medal he picked up during the figure skating team event.
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This year's Olympics was already home of a few firsts for Phelps – he served as the flag bearer for his first-ever march with Team USA during the Opening Ceremonies and it also marks the first Olympics since he became a dad to baby Boomer.
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The U.S. will impose fresh sanctions on North Korea, Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday in Japan, a step that comes days ahead of the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies in South Korea, where the two Korean teams will march together under a unification flag.
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At the Olympics opening ceremonies in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence sat mere feet away from Kim Yo Jong, the sister and trusted adviser of none other than North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. That's remarkable for a few reasons.
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They paraded together under the Unification Flag — a blue silhouette of the Korean peninsula on a white background — at the Olympic opening ceremonies in Athens, Torino and, in 2010, the opening ceremony in Sydney, at which they received a standing ovation for their gesture of goodwill.
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Unlike the opening ceremonies in Beijing in 0003 and London in 2012, a financially constrained Brazil had little choice but to put on a more "analog" show, with minimal high-tech and a heavy dependence on the vast talent of Brazil and its Carnival party traditions.
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Unlike the opening ceremonies in Beijing in 0003 and London in 2012, a financially constrained Brazil had little choice but to put on a more "analogue"show, with minimal high-tech and a heavy dependence on the vast talent of Brazil and its Carnival party traditions.
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"This is for sure the longest runaway I have ever walked in my life and by far with the most amount of people watching, so it is a little nerve wracking I must say," Bündchen, 36, told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview ahead of the Opening Ceremonies.
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Why it matters: This suggests the possibility of a meeting between Pyongyang and Washington on the sidelines of the Olympic closing ceremonies, and comes after the North Koreans agreed to, and then canceled, a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence around the time of the opening ceremonies.
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After years of frustration, billions of dollars and a nagging national debate about their worth, the opening ceremonies took place before a world watching the moment not only for its athletic significance and global spectacle but for clues about what the political future of the peninsula could hold.
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Last week, watching the proud, hopeful faces of the thousands of Olympians in South Korea — 244 whom are American — walk out during the opening ceremonies carrying their nation's flags, it was impossible not to believe that if you work hard, anything is possible no matter who you are.
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"It was right then that I realized, 'I need to design my own prosthetic so I can get back on my snowmobiles and dirt bikes," recalls Schultz, 36, who served as the Team USA flag bearer during the opening ceremonies for the 2018 Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, on March 9.
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Among the negotiations the North Korean government made with South Korea—including their agreement to march together during opening ceremonies—was the permission to have this 230-woman "army of beauties" come and cheer on the estimated 10 North Korean athletes who will actually be permitted to participate in the games.
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In September, she ventured solo to Canada to represent the United States at the Invictus Games opening ceremonies; she also made trips by herself to West Virginia, Michigan and Texas, spreading messages of helping children and families with everything from the opioid crisis to middle school bullying and hurricane recovery.
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True Damage is a group made up of five League heroes, including Qiyana, Akali, Ekko, Yasuo, and the recently added Senna, and starting November 10th players will be able to purchase their new looks as in-game skins; that same day, the virtual group will appear onstage at the Worlds 2019 opening ceremonies.
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During the Olympic opening ceremonies on February 9, 2018, athletes marched in the Parade of Nations to the accompaniment of a select group of K-pop hits, each playing into the image South Korea wants to present right now: one of a country that's a fully integrated part of the global culture.
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Quivering like a nervous gymnast on a beam, stumbling like a hurdler, sinking to the bottom like a diver, the IOC has squandered a golden opportunity to demonstrate its integrity to the world with its spineless decision not to ban Russia's entire team from the Rio Olympics, which are to begin with opening ceremonies on August 5.
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During Harry and Meghan Markle's recent visit to Tonga during their royal tour, the prince had the chance to meet Polynesian athlete Pita Taufatofua, who caught the eye of everyone around the world when he carried the Tongan flag shirtless and slathered in coconut oil during both the Summer 2016 Olympics and Winter 2018 Olympic opening ceremonies.
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Appearing on the Google search page early Friday, the doodle, which coincides with the Olympics' opening ceremonies in Rio, Brazil, features a minute-long YouTube video in which animated fruits from, according to Google, a fruit stand in Rio, compete in Olympic-style sports like marathons, spider-riding, water polo, bicycle racing and golf (welcome back!).
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Martin Green, the director of the City of Culture programme, was the man who ran the opening ceremonies at the London Olympic Games, and he has brought all his connections and showmanship to bear on Hull, enticing the Royal Ballet, National Theatre (NT), Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and many others to perform and exhibit in the city, often in collaboration with local companies.
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Though this pair of impersonators weren't an official part of the opening ceremonies, they turned plenty of heads — according to USA Today, they "wandered through the lower section of the crowd near the media seating section shortly after the United States team finished its walk in the Parade of Nations" and "created a major stir" before eventually being thrown out.
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" While Pence was at the games' opening ceremonies, news outlets described Kim Yo Jong with labels like "the Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia Ivanka Trump talking to lawmakers about gun reform legislation: report MORE of North Korea" and said that she's "stealing the show.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Juan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America MORE will lead the Trump administration's delegation to the opening ceremonies of the 85033 Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, according to a press release Tuesday.
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And for me, just to be at an Olympics opening ceremonies, I remember calling my parents and saying, "I'm here!" because they knew how much I just ... I would ... Again, this sounds funny to anyone younger than 40 or something, but '76 Olympics, I was working as a bank teller that summer in Toledo and I would race home to watch the coverage from 8:00 to 11:00.
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In a propaganda counteroffensive, the Trump administration has put the spotlight on North Korean survivors of human rights abuses at the State of the Union address and has invited the father of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died as a result of mistreatment during his detention in North Korea, to join Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE at the Olympic opening ceremonies.
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