The opening ceremony of Beijing-2022 began this Friday, making the Chinese capital the first city to organize the Summer and Winter Games, a milestone in Olympic history, despite a complicated context, between covid, diplomatic tensions and various controversies.
As in the 2008 Summer Games, the amazing National Stadium in Beijing, better known by the nickname “Bird’s Nest”, hosts the glitter of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Games.
Like fourteen years ago, this show was conceived by the Chinese director Zhang Yimou, author in 2008 of a splendid and colorful patriotic celebration, staging 14,000 extras, dancers and acrobats, under a profusion of fireworks and special effects.
Zhang Yimou has promised a “totally innovative” show, acknowledging that he has had to take into account the frigid temperatures (-6 ° C announced) and the epidemic threat to conceive his ceremony, which this time would bring together “only” 3,000 artists, with a large majority of adolescents.
As tradition would have it, the twenty-fourth edition of the Winter Olympic Games in history will only officially begin when Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared them “open”, according to the formula decided for that purpose.
The rest, from the script of the ceremony to the identity of the last relay of the flame that will light the Olympic cauldron, are protected as state secrets. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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