2010 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations explained

During the Parade of Nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, held beginning at 6:00 PM PST on February 12, 2010, 82 athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into BC Place Stadium in the host city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Athletes entered the stadium in an order dictated by tradition. As the originator of the Olympics, Greece entered first. Canadian delegates entered last, representing the host nation. The names of the nations were announced first in French and followed by English, the official languages of the Olympics, which also happened to be the official languages of the host nation. The nations entered in alphabetic order of their country names in English because it is the more dominant of the two languages in Vancouver and in the province of British Columbia.

Delegations from North Korea and South Korea marched in separate delegations, unlike in the 2006 Winter Olympics when they marched together.[1]

Of the flag-bearers who led their respective delegations, all but one were athletes, the exception being Fuad Guliyev, a skating official from Azerbaijan. The sport which was most represented among the flag-bearers was alpine skiing, as alpine skiers led 26 delegations. Only one delegation was led by a short track speed skater, Hong Kong, led by Han Yue Shueng.[2] Marjan Kalhor, an alpine skier and the flag-bearer for Iran, was both the first female flag bearer from her country and the first female athlete from her country to participate in the Winter Olympics.[1] It was erroneously pointed out by a Canadian TV commentator that Tomomi Okazaki was the first female flag bearer for Japan. This title goes to Seiko Hashimoto in Calgary 1988. Other prominent flag bearers included Canadian speed skater and five-time Olympian Clara Hughes, American luger Mark Grimmette, who had helped carry the American flag during the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Czech hockey player Jaromír Jágr. Hughes is the only Olympian ever to win multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.[3]

Iason Abramashvili, flag bearer for Georgia, along with the other members of his delegation, wore black armbands during the march and received a standing ovation in memory of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luger who was killed in an accident during a training run earlier in the day.[4]

Parade of Nations

OrderNationFlag bearerSport
1 [5] Biathlon
2
3
4 [6] Snowboarding
5 [7] Alpine skiing
6 [8] Alpine skiing
7 [9] Snowboarding
8 Luge
9 [10] Skating official
10 [11] Ice hockey
11 [12] Figure skating
12 [13] Cross-country skiing
13 [14]
14
15 [15] Snowboarding
16
17
18 Freestyle skiing
19
20
21 Alpine skiing
22 Ice hockey
23
24
25 [16] Biathlon
26
27 [17] Ice hockey
28 [18] Alpine skiing
29 [19] Biathlon
30
31 [20] Bobsleigh
32
33 [21] Skeleton
34
35 [22]
36
37 [23] Luge
38
39 [24] Bobsleigh
40 [25]
41 [26] Cross-country skiing
42
43 [27] Speed skating
44 [28]
45
46
47 [29] Skeleton
48 [30]
49 [31]
50
51
52 [32] Biathlon
53
54
55
56
57
58 [33] Bobsleigh
59 [34] Snowboarding
60 [35] Ice hockey
61
62 [36] Cross-country skiing
63 [37]
64
65
66 [38] Ice hockey
67 [39]
68
69 [40] Alpine skiing
70 Ice hockey
71
72 Cross-country skiing
73 Snowboarding
74 Ice hockey
75 [41] Figure skating
76
77 Alpine skiing
78 [42] Cross-country skiing
79 [43] Luge
80 [44] Luge
81 Alpine skiing
82 [45] Speed skating

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References

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Notes and References

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  40. Web site: Google Translate: Great atmosphere in the Serbian team . Translate.google.ca . 2010-02-14.
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