Russian athletes will ... Athletes from Russia were not allowed to attend the opening ceremony and have ... because it had invaded Ukraine just four days after the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Sochi Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony: ... Now a video presentation begins, a film called "The Russian Odyssey," opening with stirring strings and a zoom-in from space to the Earth's surface.

Russia is banned from the Paris Olympics, but cleared Russian athletes can participate as an Individual Neutral Athlete. Here ...

In a combo of frame grabs taken from Russian television, five snowflakes float together in Fisht Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.

Russian Through History: The Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremonies 4 minute read Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Fisht Olympic Stadium on Feb. 7, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

Flag bearer Sofya Velikaya, of the Russian Olympic Committee, leads her contingent during the athletes' parade at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, July 23, 2021.

Her comments suggest a preference for the more traditional and conservative presentations she associates with Russian events. The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, held on July 26 along the ...

Editor’s note: FollowOlympic opening ceremony live updates. Russian athletes have competed under several different names at the Olympics over the years and they will use another at the 2024 ...

The Winter Olympics opening ceremony kicked off at 2014 local time (1614 GMT) on Friday at Sochi's shining new Fisht Stadium on the shores of the Black Sea, and organisers promised viewers around ...

The Paris 2024 opening ceremony is set for Friday, July 26. "The sanctions against those responsible for the war, the Russian and Belarusian states and governments, remain in place for the Olympic ...