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Complete vancouver 2010 opening ceremony vancouver 2010. The opening ceremony of the 2018 winter olympics was held at the pyeongchang olympic stadium in pyeongchang, south korea on 9 february 2018. Olympic games opening ceremony vocabulary lesson plan 312. Directed by fernando meirelles, daniela thomas, andrucha waddington. Tokyo olympics opening ceremony rescheduled for july 23, 2021. Some of the elements of the modern ceremonies harken back to the ancient games from which the modern olympics draw their ancestry. Download the lausanne 2020 app to catch all the live.
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