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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

British fans before the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremon

Russian fans at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

Spectators at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Famous Canadian ice-hockey player Wayne Gretzky during the Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Famous Canadian ice-hockey player Wayne Gretzky, foreground, and paralympian Rick Hansen during the Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Famous Canadian ice-hockey player Wayne Gretzky during the Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

Fiddlers at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

VIP sector at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

Decoration sets at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening

The entry of the Canadian flag at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Canada

Team Canada at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Canada

Team Canada at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team USA

Team USA at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Ukraine

Team Ukraine at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Russia

Team Russia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada. Center: Andrey Kolesnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russky Pioner magazine.

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Team Russia

Team Russia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada with flag-bearer ice hockey palyer Alexei Morozov on the right and Russian Olympic Committee president Leonid Tyagachev second left.

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Team Russia

Team Russia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Russia

Team Russia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Morocco

Team Morocco athlete at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Hong Kong

Hong Kong athletes at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Georgia

Team Georgia flag-bearer Yason Abramishvili wears an armband at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada to mourn team-mate luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who died in a crash on the sliding track at Whistler 12 February hours before the opening ceremony.

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Team Georgia

Team Georgia wear armbands at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada to mourn team-mate luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who died in a crash on the sliding track at Whistler 12 February hours before the opening ceremony.

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Team France

Team France at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Russian fans

Russian fans at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Estonia

Team Estonia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Czech Republic's team

Czech Republic's team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Croatia

Team Croatia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Bulgaria

Team Bulgaria at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Bermuda

Team Bermuda at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Belarus

Belarus flag-bearer ice-hockey player Oleg Antonenko at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Belarus

Belarus athletes at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Azerbaijan

Team Azerbaijan at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Armenia

Team Armenia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lit at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

One of the four structures failed to come out of the floor during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. Yet the torch-bearers managed to light the other pieces that carried the flame to the cauldron.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

One of the four structures failed to come out of the floor during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. The Olympic flame was to reach the cauldron via that structure. Flames from the other three torches did successfully light the main flame.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lit at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Team Russia

Team Russia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada. The flag-bearer ice hockey player Alexei Morozov is in the foreground center.

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Team Russia

Team Russia at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada. The flag-bearer ice hockey player Alexei Morozov is in the foreground center.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

Raising Canadian flag at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lit at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lit at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky lighting Olympic flame at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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Nelly Furtado, Bryan Adams

Nelly Furtado and Bryan Adams at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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2010 Olympiad opening ceremony on at Sochi sports bar

2010 Olympiad opening ceremony broadcast at Sochi sports bar "Secor 81".

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2010 Olympiad opening ceremony on at Sochi sports bar

2010 Olympiad opening ceremony broadcast at Sochi sports bar "Secor 81".

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Olympic flame lighting ceremony

Olympic flame lighting at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Canada.

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