Nadia Tokovic
Mr. Calic
Humanities 8B
13 February 2013
With many lights, fireworks, dance and music the most expensive Winter
Olympics in history, have started in Sochi, Russia.
At 20:14 on February 7th by the local time lights and music filled
the Fisht Olympic Stadium with over 40,000 spectators from the stands. The Russian
President, Vladimir Putin was joined by over 40 other world leaders. This worldwide
competition will last from the 7th of February until the 23rd
of February and for these 16 days results of the games will dominate the
sporting channels and websites.
"Most of the ceremony focuses heavily on Russian
classical music," said Konstantin Ernst, who was the main creative
producer of the ceremony. The music for these Olympic Games was to be
focused on is the music that Russia is most famous for; classical music. The
opening scene also included a little girl who was dreaming about Russia’s landscapes,
landmarks and artists and then was lifted up into the skies by wires as if she
was flying. The performance of the little girl was followed by the athletes
walking up ceremoniously onto the stage. Dmitry Chernyshenko, who was the head
of the games, wanted to make sure that the Olympics would be “the safest place
on Earth”, and indeed there were 37,000 policemen and officers placed around
Sochi to handle any conflict. These Olympic games were being prepared for since
2007, when Russia first bid to host the Winter Olympic games. The cost for the
games was at that time expected to be around 12 billion dollars but got up to
50 billion dollars making these the most expensive Olympics in history, both
summer and winter. Overall, this spectacular opening to the ongoing Winter Olympics
really proved to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the spectators. “We came with all
our family,” said one of the spectators. “It is a big event for us, for our
city, and for the whole country. This happens only once, and you have got to
watch it, like this, at least.”
Sources:
1.http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/07/winter-olympics-start-with-glittering-opening-ceremony/
2.http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/world/europe/russia-sochi-winter-olympics/
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