Many abruptly left! Without volunteers to keep athletes in the middle of the stadium floor, the extremely long parade of nations left many athletes bored and tired leaving around 2,000 of originally over 10,000 to watch the end of the ceremony.ījork performed at the 2004 opening ceremony in Athens during the Dove of Peace segment. The Rio Opening Ceremony in 2016 was smaller in scale than the several prior games, but one oddity occurred after the athletes entered.
Rio 2016 - Where have all the athletes gone? For many in the stadium and as described by athletes in attendance, the cauldron lighting would be far more memorable not as the climatic moment we see on television, but they described it as a "perfume explosion" and "gas attack" when ceremony organizers decided to mass disperse chrysanthemum perfume to coincide with the entrance of the torch.ĩ. Some of these videos may require you to view them on youtube instead of this blog.Īt the opening ceremony in Tokyo, the cauldron entered the stadium carried by a survivor born in Hiroshima on the day of the Atomic Bomb blast.
Let's take a look at the top 10 failures in Olympic Ceremony history!Īnd if you're interested in further information, please visit for more history about the Olympic Ceremonies. This live event inevitably contained some of high-stakes moments that ended up in failure. The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is among the world's largest theatrical and artistic events.