Celebration, sadness Olympic Winter Games open-photohollywood

Celebration, sadness Olympic Winter Games open-photohollywood
Time Vancouver, British Columbia - after Georgian athlete was killed during a training session on the field Luge, Winter Olympic Games officially open on Friday evening.



Opening with a snowboarder jumping from the top of a sports hall, the performance of traditional dances and songs performed throughout Canada. Canadian contemporary artists such as Nelly Furtado, Sarah McLachlan and Bryan Adams, held with a number of other aboriginal Canadians.

Later, skiers and snowboarders strings, imitating moves from the large canvas "Mountains", as the Olympic stadium was designed for them. LIT whistled the skaters at the bottom of the screen, hands and feet.

Events and celebrations was blocked earlier in the day, when the Georgia Nodar Kumaritashvili Luger lost control of his sled on the Luge Course Whistler. Then he was thrown off the track, hitting the pole has been unstuffed. E 'was loaded in an ambulance but was pronounced dead shortly after.

The team received a standing ovation from Georgia, very excited when they entered the stadium during the opening ceremony. IOC President Jacques Rogge said the death Kumaritashvili during the ceremony, just before the official opening of the Games. A minute's silence was observed for several minutes before the athletes and the judges have the Olympic Oath.

After the ceremony, four Canadian sports heroes, including the Hall of Fame NHL Wayne Gretzky and NBA star Steve Nash, a brief technical delays, waiting for the bank rose from the stands before lighting the Olympic flame. Gretzky ran out of the arena in a cauldron standing in front of a stage covered with light.