2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony the Opening Ceremonies, for example in the last Olympics before that, in Salt Lake City, where banners of the previous 18 Winter Olympics entered Rice-Eccles Stadium at the beginning of the ceremony. This would also be seen in Vancouver during the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics and on the Televised version of the Olympic Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The first speech came from Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, the chief organizer of the Athens 2004 Olympics and the first female chief organizer of an Olympic games. She told the athletes: "Welcome home!" and "Greece is standing before
2006 Asian Games opening ceremony Ceremony was described by the media to be one of the most breath-taking and technologically spectacular multi-sports event ceremony, and the most expensive multi-sports event ceremony (including both Opening and Closing ceremonies) in the history of Asian Games. Created and produced by David Atkins Enterprises, the opening ceremony of the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 focused on the future of youth and their dreams that await them. Qatari children were the first to perform. They entered the stadium and spent 10 exuberant minutes creating a cultural and traditional Arabian carpet sometimes referred to as "a Qatari sadu carpet" on the