1988 Winter Olympics national flag bearers celebrating Bicentenary event at that time. 1988 Winter Olympics national flag bearers During the Parade of Nations section of the 1988 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, athletes from the participating countries marched into the arena. Each delegation was led by a flag bearer and a sign with the name of the country on it. The Parade of Nations was organized in English, one of the official languages in Canada. As tradition dictates, Greece led the parade and Canada was the last to march to the stadium as the host nation. Organizers played Happy Birthday to You during Australian team march as
Francesca Solleville songs against Nazism, Francoism and the Vietnam War. Equally, she supported the workers' cause ("Le Chant des ouvriers"). In 1971, she recorded with Marcel Mouloudji and Armand Mestral "La Commune en chantant", a homage to 100 years of the Paris Commune. In 1975, she released "Chants d'exil et de lutte" based on the texts of Pablo Neruda. In 1988, she celebrated the bicentenary of the French Revolution with "Musique, citoyennes !". Allain Leprest wrote the words of her album "Al Dente" (1994). In 2004, she published her autobiography, "A piena voce", written with the collaboration of Marc Legras. In 2009,