{"id":14852,"date":"2018-02-09T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/02\/09\/highlights-of-the-pyeongchang-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:14:00","slug":"highlights-of-the-pyeongchang-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/highlights-of-the-pyeongchang-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights Of The Pyeongchang Olympics Opening Ceremony, In Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beginning with fireworks and ending with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony, called “Peace in Motion,” took place Friday evening amid gusts of wind and frigid temperatures.<\/p>\n

Watching inside the Olympic stadium was a crowd of more than 30,000 \u2014 including South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Vice President Pence sat nearby.<\/p>\n

In the parade of nations \u2014 92 are taking part in these Olympics \u2014 American luger Erin Hamlin, a four-time Olympian, served as Team USA’s flag-bearer. A unified Korean team marched together under a unification flag. But many thought Pita Taufatofua \u2014 who competed in taekwondo in Rio’s Summer Games and is in Pyeongchang to compete in cross-country skiing \u2014 stole the show by reprising his bare-chested appearance as flag-bearer for Tonga.<\/p>\n

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\n Kim Yo Jong (left), the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

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Beginning with fireworks and ending with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony, called “Peace in Motion,” took place Friday evening amid gusts of wind and frigid temperatures.<\/p>\n

Watching inside the Olympic stadium was a crowd of more than 30,000 \u2014 including South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Vice President Pence sat nearby.<\/p>\n

In the parade of nations \u2014 92 are taking part in these Olympics \u2014 American luger Erin Hamlin, a four-time Olympian, served as Team USA’s flag-bearer. A unified Korean team marched together under a unification flag. But many thought Pita Taufatofua \u2014 who competed in taekwondo in Rio’s Summer Games and is in Pyeongchang to compete in cross-country skiing \u2014 stole the show by reprising his bare-chested appearance as flag-bearer for Tonga.<\/p>\n

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