Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With the Olympic Opening Ceremonies Through the Years

Let the Video games start!

The 2022 Beijing Olympics are set to formally kick off on Friday, Feb. 4, with the Opening Ceremony. On the occasion, groups from across the globe will characterize their international locations as they put together to compete.

Whereas the ceremony comes amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic, and is prone to be extra subdued given the well being disaster, it’s shaping as much as be extra significant than ever. Curling star John Shuster and velocity skater Brittany Bowe will lead the U.S. group as flag bearers in the course of the ceremony. Brittany truly stepped in after one of many official flag bearers, bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor, examined constructive for coronavirus and due to this fact can not stroll in the course of the occasion.

Whereas in years previous just one particular person was chosen for this position, the Worldwide Olympic Committee made a change in the course of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to promote inclusivity. “With 49 p.c feminine participation, Tokyo 2020 would be the first gender-equal Olympic Video games ever,” the committee beforehand shared. “For the primary time, there can be at the very least one feminine and one male athlete in every of the groups collaborating within the Video games.”

Basketball star Sue Hen and baseball participant Eddy Alvarez did the honors in Tokyo.