Olympic Documentary "Opening Ceremony of the 28th Athens Olympic Games in 2004" At 1:45 a.m. on August 14, 2004, the main Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece, became a sea of joy at this moment, and the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games with the theme of "After 108 years, the Olympic Games return to their hometown" was held here. The Olympic Complex is already packed with crowds, with delegations from 202 countries and regions, nearly 10,000 performers and staff, and more than 50,000 spectators coming together to witness this sporting event with nearly 4 billion TV viewers around the world.
Entering the Olympic Complex, the first thing that catches the eye is a pool of turquoise water in the center of the venue, which symbolizes the Aegean Sea that the Greeks are proud of, and it is also the stage for tonight's opening ceremony. This particular stage contains high-tech components: the total weight of the water is 2162 tons, and it takes six hours to fill it all, and at the end of the show, ten large pumps will make the water disappear in three minutes, and the disappeared water will flow to an underground reservoir large enough to hold it.
Before the opening ceremony, people began to count down from 28, indicating that the 28th Olympic Games had entered a countdown state.
As the lights dimmed, hundreds of drummers beat the earth-shattering drums against the backdrop of melodious Greek music, announcing the official start of the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games.
Amid the cheers, Greek President Stephanopoulos announced the opening of the 28th Olympic Games!
Five bells representing the five continents ring at the same time to celebrate this exciting moment! Many children and teenagers came to the venue with olive branches in hand to welcome the arrival of the Olympic flag. The Olympic flag was escorted by 8 flag guards into the scene, and the Olympic flag was slowly raised in the solemn Olympic song.
A dove of peace appeared on the big screen, a runner descended from the sky with a sacred flame, and in the warm applause, the first torch bearer entered the scene, and the exciting moment of torch lighting was coming. The Olympic flame was lit on March 25 at the site of Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the 3,000-year-old Olympic Games, and then the flame crossed five continents for the first time, passed through 33 cities, and passed through 3,600 torch bearers, completing a 34-day round-the-world relay. On July 9, local time, the flame returned to Greece, the host country of the Olympic Games, and after a new round of relay in Greece, the torch arrived in Athens on August 12. The Athens Olympic Torch Relay lasted about 78 days and covered a total distance of 78,000 kilometers, and 260 million people around the world were fortunate enough to witness the Olympic flame.
The third torchbearer was Patrido, a 100-meter hurdles athlete in Barcelona who won Greece's first women's Olympic gold medal; the fourth torchbearer was Dimas, a 32-year-old weightlifting hero who won medals at three Olympic Games, who won gold twice at Barcelona, 1996 at Atlanta and Bronze in Sydney in 2000; the fifth torchbearer was a gymnast; the sixth torchbearer was sailing athlete Konamanassky. He has won three world championships. Konamanasski ran to the position of the main torch stand on the other side of the arena, and the giant torch of the main stadium of the Athens Olympic Games was slender and spindle-shaped, like a "needle nose", about 30 meters high and more than 1 meter in diameter; and could be put down. Konamanasski ran to the design position with the flame in hand, and the main torch was slowly lowered, and after being lit in the cheers of the audience, it slowly returned to its original height again. The ignition ceremony expresses the connection between heaven and earth, matter and spirit. The raging fire pushed the opening ceremony to the climax, and the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games also came to an abrupt end in the climax.
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