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- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games abstract "The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event featuring both summer and winter sports, held every two years with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating. During Olympic Games opening ceremonies, the sitting president of the International Olympic Committee will make a speech before inviting a representative from the host country to officially declare that particular Games open. The current Olympic Charter requires this person to be the head of state of the host country, although this has not always been the case. This article lists the people who have had the ceremonial duty to declare each Olympic Games open.Rule 56 of Chapter 5 of the Olympic Charter sets out the exact words that are to be declared by the person opening the Games. If at a Summer Olympic Games, the words to be said are: I declare open the Games of [name of host city] celebrating the [number of the Olympiad] Olympiad of the modern era. When at a Winter Olympic Games, the dignitary opening the Games is to proclaim: I declare open the [number of the Olympic Winter Games] Olympic Winter Games of [name of host city]. However, this has not always been followed strictly; at the 2010 Winter Olympics the Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean, used the format of a Summer Games declaration to open the Games by saying \"I declare open the Games of Vancouver, celebrating the 21st Winter Olympic Games.\"In 1976, Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada, opened the Montreal Olympics (first in French followed by the English) with:I declare open the Olympic Games of 1976, celebrating the XXI Olympiad of the modern era.In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan opened the Los Angeles Summer Olympics with:Celebrating the XXIII Olympiad of the modern era, I declare open the Olympic Games of Los Angeles.In 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush opened the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which took place five months after the September 11 attacks, with:On behalf of a proud, determined and grateful nation..., then the standard opening formula followed. In 2008, Hu Jintao, the President of the People's Republic of China, formally announced the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics by speaking in Mandarin:On behalf of the 29th Olympiad, I officially declare these Olympic Games of Beijing ... open.In 2012, Elizabeth II, as Queen of the United Kingdom, opened the London Summer Olympics with the same fashion in English, making it the second time that she opened the Games.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ↑".
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- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Akihito.
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- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lists_of_people_by_activity.
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- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Chamonix.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Chancellor_of_Germany.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink China.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Cortina_dAmpezzo.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Dilma_Rousseff.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Dwight_D._Eisenhower.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Edward_VII.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Elizabeth_II.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Emperor_of_Japan.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Equestrian_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Finland.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink France.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Führer.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink George_I_of_Greece.
- List_of_people_who_have_opened_the_Olympic_Games wikiPageWikiLink George_VI.