Talk:2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

message: The TV viewing figures cited in this, until my edit, aren't worthy of Wikipedia. There is simply no way on earth 4.5bn out of a world population of 6bn (that including an estimated 600m babies) actually watched the opening ceremony - that is actually 600m more than the IOC claimed had access to TV coverage, 3.9bn. These figures are the product of marketing hype meeeting the media's love for large figures - and they are just nonsense. Just think of all those people in rural India and China without access to TV who magically managed to watch the Opening Ceremony, if these figures are to be believed. Oh yeah? If you dispute this, read this instructive article from the Wall Street Journal about inflated TV viewing figures: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112180840215889963-0heH1LSDovgHdjc0ribnrPO2TbY_20060721.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top Cardicam 22:10, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV hype 

message: Is there really a point in having a separate encyclopedia article specifically on the opening ceremonies??? Just a question, not meant to cause misunderstanding... Colipon 00:42, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The main article was 32 Ks long, so I split something off. And we have full articles on the smallest and weirdest topics these days. ❝Sverdrup❞ 00:56, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: I think it's probably worth having articles to mark the details of each opening ceremony -- not to mention that such an article fully expanded would contains links to such diverse matters such as Björk, Costis Stephanopoulos, Centaurs and so forth -- you don't often get to see such diverse issues brought together. :-) Aris Katsaris 00:57, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existence 

message: Thanks for the factcheck; I missed the start of the opening so I didn't know. I did know that Greece wasn't first, though. Thanks again for checking up on it. --Golbez 03:55, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Afghanistan

message: East Timor competed in 2000, but hadn't got its own flag (it competed either under the Olympic flag or the UN flag, I can't find my video of the opening ceremony to check it). I also have a sneaking suspicion that the joint-entry thing done by the Koreas was done in 2000 as well as at the 2002 Winter Games - but I won't change that just as yet.
BigHaz 10:21, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  East Timor and Koreas 

message: NBCOlympics.com has his named spelled "Nikolaos Kaklamanakis", with an additional "o" in his first name.  Does anyone know what the proper spelling is? Beginning 23:04, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
: Both Nikolas and Nikolaos (and Nikos) are variations of the same name, but "Nikolaos" is the official name, while "Nikolas" (or "Nikos") is the informal form that normal people would use to refer to him. Greek naming has quirks like that. Google gets you 2460 hits for Nikos Kaklamanakis, 511 for Nikolaos Kaklamanakis and 291 for Nikolas Kaklamanakis. Aris Katsaris 00:42, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nikolas Kaklamanakis 

message: Can anyone point me at a web page that lists the participating countries in Greek alphabetical order with the names in Greek letters, with an adjacent list of translations into English?  Michael Hardy 00:20, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Greek alphabetical order -- details

message: A centaur — whose human and animal parts supposedly symbolize the duality of spirit and body...
Is this line saying that centaurs in general symbolize the duality of spirit and body, or that the specific centaur used in the Opening Ceremony was meant to represent spirit and body?  In case it makes a difference, the line used to read "symbolized" instead of "symbolize", which is what makes me question it.  Past tense would indicate that the centaur used in the ceremony represented spirit and body, while present would indicate that they always mean that.  (Also, I don't think the "supposedly" is necessary in either case, but I could be wrong.) Beginning 01:35, Aug 27, 2004 (UTC)
: The Greek commentator during the opening ceremonie mentioned that symbolism -- and it fits with the theme of the sequence so I thought it made sense and I mentioned it in the article. I used "supposedly" because I think that to some extent we are only pretending to know what (if anything) the ancients "symbolically meant" with the various mythological creatures they had in the stories... And I used the past tense, because I though it'd be better to limit the talk of the centaur symbolism on what was meant in the ceremony, rather than discuss centaurs in general... Aris Katsaris 02:40, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Centaurs

message: At the end of the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, an ice skater skated across the floor of the stadium and thereby lit Olympic Rings on the ice , leading to a very similar image as to what appeared in Greece two years later.  Perhaps a new tradition was  started?  Or had this been done in earlier Olympic opening ceremeonies?   
:4.228.102.212 23:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rings of Fire

message: Hi, the 3 images I removed are suspected copyright violations and may soon be deleted from the Commons:. If you want to keep them, please consider uploading the images locally as fair use. Thank you. pfctdayelise 07:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images removed 

message: This is 18 months too late, perhaps, but I specifically remember the Jurassic Park theme being played during these ceremonies.  Does anyone else remember that, or know why?  Am I crazy? -- stillnotelf has a talk page 04:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jurassic Park 

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thread_title:  Dead link 

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message: I just want to put in the foreign dignitaries who attend the celebration of athletes during the parade of nations in the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad Athens 2004 Olympic Homecoming. --72.69.243.12 (talk) 23:53, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dignitaries attend the Opening Ceremony 2004 Athens Olympics 

message: At the Opening ceremony, who is the Military supporter Colonel of the Hellenic Air Force that accompanied the President of the Hellenic Republic Konstantinos Stephanopoulos to declare open the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens, Greece, of the modern era along with IOC Members and foreign dignitaries? What's the Air Force Officer's name? A gentleman. 72.69.243.12 (talk) 05:33, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name of the officer of the Hellenic Air Force accompanied the President of the Hellenic Republic Konstantinos Stephanopoulos to declare open the 2004 Athens Olympics 

message: President's Adjutant Officer of the Hellenic Air Colonel Georgios Dritsakos accompanied the President of the Hellenic Republic Konstantinos Stephanopoulos to declare open the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens 2004 of the modern era. 100.2.114.167 (talk) 21:36, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  President's Adjutant Officer Colonel Georgios Dritsakos at the Opening Ceremony Athens 2004 Olympics