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2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
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2018 Winter Olympics
opening ceremony
Yuna Kim, South Korean Olympic figure skating champion, lights the Olympic cauldron
Date
9 February 2018 (2018-02-09)
Time
20:00–22:20 KST (UTC+9)
Location
Pyeongchang, South Korea
Coordinates
37°40′03″N 128°42′20″E / 37.66750°N 128.70556°E / 37.66750; 128.70556Coordinates: 37°40′03″N 128°42′20″E / 37.66750°N 128.70556°E / 37.66750; 128.70556
Also known as
Peace in Motion
Filmed by
SBS and OBS
Part of a series on the
2018 Winter Olympics
Bid process (bid details)
Venues
Torch relay
Mascots
Broadcasters
Opening ceremony (flag bearers)
Chronological summary
Medal table (medalists)
World and Olympic records
Controversies (ban on Russian athletes)
Closing ceremony (flag bearers)
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The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea on 9 February 2018. It began at 20:00 KST and finished at approximately 22:20 KST. The Games were officially opened by President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in.
Contents
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1 Preparations
2 Ceremony
3 Programme
3.1 Parade of Nations
3.2 Torch lighting
3.3 Wish Fire
3.4 Intel® Drone Light Show
4 Controversies
4.1 Mike Pence
4.2 Russian hacking
5 Dignitaries in attendance
6 Anthems
7 Ceremony key team
8 References
9 External links
Preparations[edit]
The site of the opening ceremony, Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, was built specifically for the Games. The pentagonal stadium seats 35,000. The organizers for the event said the shape was chosen because it is a combination of different shapes, a circle, a square, and a triangle, which represent heaven, earth, and mankind.[1] No Olympic or Paralympic events will be held at the stadium, which will only be used for the opening and closing ceremonies. The venue will be torn down afterwards.[2]
The broadcast of the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games was available in more than 200 countries around the world.[3]
Ha Hyun-woo of the band Guckkasten, Ahn Ji-young of the musical duo Bolbbalgan4, Lee Eun-mi and Jeon In-kwon with his band Deulgukhwa performed and sang John Lennon's "Imagine" at the opening ceremony.[4]
The Rainbow Children's Choir performed an arrangement, with Korean traditional musical instruments, of the national anthem, “Aegukga”.[5] The multiethnic children’s choir was formed to educate the Korean public about multicultural families living in Korea. [6]
Insooni sang the theme song for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Torch Relay, "Let Everyone Shine".[7]
Ceremony[edit]
The ceremony's message centered on peace, passion, harmony, and convergence.[1]
Five children from rural Gangwon province led the ceremony, which included one Inmyeonjo (a mythical creature with a body of a bird and a head of a man, a creature that only appears when the world is at peace), four mythical creatures, including a white tiger — spirit animal protector of Korea and the mascot of these Games, natural floral and fauna, and a cast of 2,000. Five children were used to symbolize the five Olympic rings, and the five names were chosen to represent fire, water, wood, metal, and earth, the five elements that are believed to make up the Earth.[1]
Augmented reality and 5G technology were also incorporated in the event. The largest drone show in history, featuring 1,218 Shooting Star drones, was planned for the ceremony but cancelled at the last minute; television audiences were shown a version that had been recorded the previous December.[8]
During the opening ceremony the organizing committee was a victim of a cyber attack, but without major consequences.
Programme[edit]
Parade of Nations[edit]
Main article: 2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations
The Parade of Nations was led, according to custom due to hosting the original ancient Olympics, by the Greek team, followed by other competing countries in alphabetical order based on their names in the Korean language, with the host country, South Korea, concluding the march.[9]
The delegations from both the host nation South Korea and North Korea (Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics) marched under the Korean unification flag.[9] South Korean Won Yun-jong and North Korean Hwang Chung-gum both held the flagpole.[10]
Even though the temperature in the stadium during the ceremony was very cold, Bermuda's delegation wore shorts and Tongan Pita Taufatofua repeated his shirtless and oiled up Summer Olympic appearance.[10]
Background music for the parade began with an instrumental version of "Hand in Hand" by Koreana and included modern dance remixes of songs such as "단발머리" by Cho Yong-pil and of traditional Korean music, as well as the following K-pop hits: "Gangnam Style" by Psy, "Likey" by Twice, "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang, "DNA" by BTS, and "Red Flavor" by Red Velvet.[11] "Red Flavor" was cut off just as the unified Korean team was introduced.
Torch lighting[edit]
See also: 2018 Winter Olympics torch relay
Cauldron
The Olympic flame was on a 101-day relay across South Korea. The start of the ceremony takes place in Olympia of Greece. Apostles Angelis, 24 years old cross-country skier, is selected to be the first torchbearer. He said "It is a great honour for me to be chosen as the first torchbearer for the Olympic Winter Games of 2018. It is truly a unique moment that I am looking forward to. I feel very proud and with a unique sense of happiness." [12] Park Ji-Sung, football player in Republic of Korea, was the second person to hold the torch. After the flame touring around Greece for a week, it reached the Acropolis on 30th of October. [12] There were 36 ceremonies held in different cities over a week, then the flame arrived to the PyeongChang Panathenaic Stadium. More than 500 torchbearers participated to follow the rituals of Olympic cycle, and carried the message of peace.[13] In the stadium, Opera soloist Sumi Hwang sang the Olympic anthem during the torch lighting ceremony. The final person to hold the torch was Inbee Park, the golfer from Republic of Korea. Chung Su-hyon from North Korea and Park Jong-ah from South Korea carried the torch and headed up stairs toward the cauldron. [14]As the torch neared the cauldron, an ice skating rink with South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim was revealed.[10] Yuna Kim is the well-known figure skater who won gold medal in 2010 and silver metal in 2014.[14] The cauldron was designed to represent a full moon when it is not lit. Kim received the torch and lit the cauldron.[1]
Wish Fire[edit]
The final segment entitled "Wish Fire" featured Korean dance group Just Jerk[15] (who became known internationally for their participation in the twelfth season of America's Got Talent) entered the stage dressed as Dokkaebi, and performers with sparklers on roller blades. This segment in total featured 2,000 fireworks within and out of the stadium, some reaching as high as 1,300 metres (4,300 ft).[1]
Intel® Drone Light Show[edit]
More than 1,200 Intel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones flying above Pyeong Chang to celebrate the opening of 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Intel® drone team now holds the Guinness World Record of flying largest number of drones. [16] The drones flew together to form custom animations illustrating snow boarding, skiing, other different sports, as well as the iconic Olympic rings. The Shooting Star drones carried on the symbol of unity and progress from lighting of the torch. [17]
Controversies[edit]
Mike Pence[edit]
While there is no protocol requiring guests to stand for the host country's arrival,[18] United States Vice President Mike Pence was criticized for not standing, as North and South Korean athletes entered during the Parade of Athletes.[18] Pence was accused of hypocrisy, with critics drawing parallels to national anthem protests by NFL athletes.[19][20][21]
Russian hacking[edit]
On 24 February, the Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence uncovered Russian spies hacked computers during the Opening Ceremony, an act that was previously speculated to be the work of North Korea. Analysts believed the Russians instigated the February 9 attack as a way to retaliate for the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics as punishment for doping violations.[22][23]
Dignitaries in attendance[edit]
Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States
Co-Prince of Andorra and President of France Emmanuel Macron[24]
Governor General Julie Payette[25][24]
Politburo standing member Han Zheng[26]
Vice President Óscar Naranjo[24]
President Kersti Kaljulaid[27]
Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian[28] and Minister of Sports Laura Flessel
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier[29]
Sports Minister Luca Lotti[30]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe[31]
President of Korea Moon Jae-In[32]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė[33]
President Hashim Thaçi[34]
Grand Duke Henri[35]
Prince Albert II[36]
King Willem Alexander, Queen Máxima and Prime Minister Mark Rutte[37]
President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam and Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Yo-jong[38]
President Andrzej Duda[39]
Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovičić[40]
President Andrej Kiska[41]
President Alain Berset[42]
Princess Anne[43]
Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence[44]
Secretary-General António Guterres[45]
Kim Yo-jong attending the ceremony
On 9 February 2018, Kim Yo-jong — sister of Kim Jong-un — attended the ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This was a first time that a member of the ruling Kim dynasty had visited South Korea since the Korean War.[46] Kim Yo-jong shook hands with South Korean president Moon Jae-in before sitting down to watch the ceremony together.[10]
Anthems[edit]
Rainbow Children's Choir – South Korean National Anthem[5]
Sumi Hwang – Olympic Hymn[5]
Ceremony key team[edit]
Artistic Director: Yang Jung-woong[4]
Executive Director, creative: Song Seung-whan[47]
Executive Director, cinematography: Lim Tae-hong, Andrew
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Bill, the Galactic Hero
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Bill, the Galactic Hero
Cover of the first edition.
Author
Harry Harrison
Cover artist
Larry Lurin[1]
Language
English
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
1965
Media type
Print
Pages
185
OCLC
55999461
Followed by
(Bill, the Galactic Hero) The Planet of the Robot Slaves
Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satirical science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison, first published in 1965.
Harrison reports having been approached by a Vietnam veteran who described Bill as "the only book that's true about the military."[2]
Contents
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1 Plot summary
2 Series
3 Plot elements
3.1 Bloater Drive
3.2 Bowb
4 Film adaptation
5 References
6 External links
Plot summary[edit]
Bill is a farmboy on a small backward agricultural planet who is drugged, hypnotised, then shanghaied into the Space Troopers and sent to recruit training under a fanged instructor named Deathwish Drang. After surviving boot camp, he is transferred to active duty as a fuse tender on the flagship of the space fleet in battle with the Chingers, a small reptilian race. Injured and with the fleet almost destroyed, he fires off a shot witnessed by an officer and is proclaimed a hero.
As a reward he is sent to the city-planet Helior to receive a medal from the emperor. Bill's city plan is stolen on a sightseeing tour; because it takes him days to get back to the transit centre, he arrives to find himself AWOL and considered a deserter after missing his transport. He escapes and flees into the depths of the city, where he first falls in with a gang of similarly "deplanned" outlaws, then finds employment with Helior's garbage disposal service. His unwilling recruitment as a spy to infiltrate an ineptly-run anarchist plot leads to his arrest.
He is sent to a prison unit working on the planet where the Human-Chinger war continues. Escaping during an attack, he rescues some prisoners and meets a dying Deathwish Drang. He then shoots off his own foot to get off-planet. The book ends with the story coming full circle as Bill, with an artificial foot and Deathwish Drang's fangs, returns to his home planet and recruits his younger brother into the Troopers (A recruiter's term of service is reduced for each new trooper they enlist).
Series[edit]
Six sequels were published, from 1989 to 1992:
The first, Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves (1989), is by Harry Harrison.
After this, the sequels were penned by other writers and edited by Harrison. Harry Harrison expressed his own disappointment in the series in an interview with Brian Ireland, quoted on Ireland On-Line.:[3]
They have a thing in the States called 'share cropping' where you have a series or character, and you have other writers do work with it [...] I never wanted to do it, I'm not interested. But one of the packagers said, coming back to this thing I said about the pornography of violence: Harry, why don't we do a Bill, the Galactic Hero series and actually do some anti-war propaganda instead of all pro war. So they eventually talked me into it. The second one — Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves — I did myself, that was a lot of fun. If they could all be like that. But no, no. We all make mistakes. I'm a professional writer. I earn a living at it. These are the only ones where I did it wrong.
The second, Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (1990), is by Robert Sheckley and Harry Harrison
The third, Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1991), is by David Bischoff and Harry Harrison
The fourth, Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires (1991), is by Jack C. Haldeman and Harry Harrison
The fifth, Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991), is by David Bischoff and Harry Harrison (Was also published under the title: "Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell")
The sixth, Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure (1991), is by David Harris and Harry Harrison
"Bill, the Galactic Hero's Happy Holiday" appeared as a short story in Galactic Dreams (1994) by Harry Harrison
Plot elements[edit]
Bloater Drive[edit]
The standard ways of circumventing relativity in 1950s and 1960s science fiction were hyperspace, subspace and spacewarp. Harrison's contribution was the "Bloater Drive". This enlarges the gaps between the atoms of the ship until it spans the distance to the destination, whereupon the atoms are moved back together again, reconstituting the ship at its previous size but in the new location. An occasional side-effect is that the occupants see a planet drifting, in miniature, through the hull.
Bowb[edit]
Harrison introduced a new euphemism, "bowb", in the series to cover the vulgarity necessary to render military life accurately.[4] It is used extensively in Bill, the Galactic Hero.
Film adaptation[edit]
According to filmmaker Alex Cox, Bill, the Galactic Hero was optioned in the mid-1980s, but never came to fruition as a film project.[5] Prior to his death in 2012, Harrison gave Cox "academic license" to make a student film version of the novel with his students at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[6] In March 2013, Cox launched a Kickstarter campaign, hoping to raise a goal of $100,000 to shoot the film. Cox succeeded in raising in excess of the budget and in getting a number of film professionals to work on a royalties basis. The film went into production in October 2013 [7] and premiered in Boulder on 12 December 2014 to positive reviews.[8][9][10]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/n06-1-phist.htm
Jump up ^ fanac Con Report.
Jump up ^ IOL.ie
Jump up ^ "Bowb as a Gaming Term". panix.com.
Jump up ^ Cox, Alex (26 August 2012). "HARRY HARRISON, PRESENTE! (2012.8.26)". The Blog of ALEX COX. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
Jump up ^ Rubino, Joe (16 October 2012). "Apollo-era replica space suits take earthbound trip across CU-Boulder campus". Daily Camera. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
Jump up ^ Kickstarter campaign page for Bill, The Galactic Hero
Jump up ^ Casciato, Cory (10 December 2014). "Alex Cox on Bill the Galactic Hero, Biggest Student Movie of All Time". Denver Westworld. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
Jump up ^ Casey, Michael (18 December 2014). "An independent fit for Boulder". Boulder Weekly. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
Jump up ^ Fortune, Ed (19 December 2014). "Bill, the Galactic Hero". Daily Camera. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
External links[edit]
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Books by Harry Harrison
Novels
Deathworld trilogy (1960-1968)
The Stainless Steel Rat series (1961-2010)
Planet of the Damned (1962)
Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965)
Make Room! Make Room! (1966)
The Technicolor Time Machine (1967)
Captive Universe (1969)
The Daleth Effect (1970)
Tunnel Through the Deeps (1972)
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973)
To the Stars trilogy (1980-1981)
A Rebel in Time (1983)
Eden series
West of Eden (1984)
Winter in Eden (1986)
Return to Eden (1988)
Stars and Stripes trilogy
Stars and Stripes Forever (1998)
Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000)
Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2002)
Coauthored with John Holm
The Hammer and the Cross (1993)
One King's Way (1994)
King and Emperor (1996)
Short story collections
War with the Robots (1962)
Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965)
Prime Number (1970)
One Step from Earth (1970)
50 in 50 (2001)
Other works
Spaceship Medic (1970) (juvenile)
Vendetta for the Saint (1956) (The Saint novel)
"The Streets of Ashkelon" (1962)
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