The incident, which came a day after Tibet activists staged a demonstration at the Acropolis in Athens calling for a boycott of next year’s Games, shows the potential protests that the first Olympics in China since 2008 face. Security guards forced the demonstrators, who were standing in the ruins of the site of the Ancient Olympics, to take down the flag and the banner and detained the activists. The demonstrators produced the flag and the banner following the ceremony in Olympia attended by International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. The 🍁 are in the stadium! 😃 #Beijing2022 #StrongerTogether | unfurled a Tibetan flag and a banner that said “no genocide” at the flame-lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Greece on Monday. #StrongerTogether | /SjMO88uO60- Olympics February 4, 2022 Jaqueline Mourao and Edson Luques Bindilatti lead the way flying the 🇧🇷 flag. #StrongerTogether | /7Akc7MM1gB- Olympics February 4, 2022īrazil hasn't missed an Olympic Winter Games since 1992 and they ain't starting now! #Beijing2022 Jamaica have a bobsleigh team, an alpine skier and women's monobob athlete participating at #Beijing2022. Jamaica is in the building! #OpeningCeremony The host nation of the next Summer Olympics, #Paris2024, have entered the stadium! 🤗 #Beijing2022 #StrongerTogether | /kWXGbe5Om3- Olympics February 4, 2022Īs is customary, Greece will enter first, lead by flagbearers Apostolos Angelis and sure to see some amazing outfits, entrances, and enthusiasm from the athletes! 🤩 #StrongerTogether | /OBHpZBb78T- Olympics February 4, 2022 🇬🇧 #TeamGB have arrived to #Beijing2022.įlagbearers Dave Ryding and Eve Muirhead lead into the National Stadium! 👋 | | #StrongerTogether /3qCm7OscyJ- Olympics February 4, 2022 #StrongerTogether | #Beijing2022 /e0GlA7Ei0O- Olympics February 4, 2022Īnd they're looking sharp in their outfits as usual! #StrongerTogether | #Beijing2022 /augRzwhUcb- Olympics February 4, 2022 Led by speed skater Tingyu Gao and skeleton athlete Dan Zhao, the athletes of the People's Republic of China enter the stadium. and checking in 👋 #OpeningCeremony /52ONJMTPSz- Team USA FebruParade of nations #TeamUSA #Curling #Beijing2022 /oDvUmapWVh- Phill Drobnick February 4, 2022Ĭouple of 5 timers 🇺🇸 & #OpeningCeremony /QlhDDrYW29- U.S. I'm honored to be a part of this great group of athletes & staff we have at time to get this party started. It's #OpeningCeremony night! Can't wait to watch to lead out with that American Flag! 🇺🇸 Modelling definitely doesn't seem like a viable career option for either of us🤣 /sad2iGKube- Andrew Musgrave February 4, 2022 No Olympic opening ceremony for me & but we thought we'd give the ceremony kit a try on. So much gratitude for being here representing #TeamCanada 🇨🇦❤️ /EcdlGtqn3E- Rachel Homan February 4, 2022 The Opening Ceremonies is getting us in the Olympic spirit!! So fun to watch and see our teammates walking in tonight 🙃🇺🇸🌟 #Olympics /ivSFYy1CGx- Mikaela Shiffrin February 4, 2022Ĭool kids in the back #teamusa /mygD2sgQSW- Hilary Knight February 4, 2022 It's that #OpeningCeremony feeling! 🎆 #StrongerTogether | #Beijing2022 /IprbuqsAAg- Olympics FebruCheck out the fitsĭo you approve, /amNZgNt4mu- Olympics February 4, 2022

#StrongerTogether | #OpeningCeremony /WrgpZ0YxDM- Olympics February 4, 2022įireworks! Goosebumps. Friends come together and welcome the Lunar New Year, a new season - and #Beijing2022! The Chinese believe the coming of Spring, in a season of freezing temperatures, often breeds new life. You know it's an #OpeningCeremony when you hear 'Imagine'.🕊️ #Beijing2022 | #StrongerTogether /VdoDUHxpsA- Olympics February 4, 2022 #StrongerTogether | #Beijing2022 /hUYhHqj7uv- Olympics February 4, 2022 The Olympic motto of 'Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together' lights the way at the #OpeningCeremony. 🔥 #OpeningCeremony #Beijing2022 /Ulj03yPiY3- Olympics February 4, 2022 The Olympic flame has entered the National Stadium. #StrongerTogether | #OpeningCeremony | #Beijing2022 /ATJjZVx3yQ- Olympics February 4, 2022

The Olympic cauldron is lit by Dinigeer Yilamujiang and Zhao Jiawen! 🔥 Here are some updates from the opening ceremonies: The performances Team USA comprises 225 athletes who will be representing 31 states. According to the IOC, 2,871 athletes representing 91 national Olympic committees will take part in the Games.

Beijing becomes the first city to host both a Winter Olympics and a Summer Olympics, which it did in 2008.

Olympic flame 2022