PRC president Hu Jintao.
Swimming has been held at every Olympic games since 1896. Open water swimming was added in the 2008 Olympics.
Yes. After the Games are declared open the Olympic Anthem is played and the flag is brought in and unfurled horizontally and raised on the stadium flagpole.
Yes. During the opening ceremony, after the countries parade in, the speeches are made, and the Games declared open the Olympic Anthem is played while the flag is brought in and raised on a flagpole in the stadium.
The Summer 08 Olympic Games in China haven't started yet.The Games will open August 8th.
The 1900 Olympics were the first modern Olympic Games to be open to women.
Queen Elizabeth II officially declared the 2014 Commonwealth Games open.
The differences are the Olympic Games are open to all 201 countries that are members of the IOC (International Olympic Committee), the Commonwealth Games are only open to countries under the British monarchy and the Asian Games are exclusive to the Asian Continent and it's countries.
yes
The declaration that opens the Games is made by the host country's head of state or their representative.
July 27th 2012.
no
1992 Games in Barcelona.