1994 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

1994 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Date	12 February 1994
Location	Lysgårdsbakken, Lillehammer, Norway
Coordinates	61°07′32″N 10°29′16″E / 61.1256°N 10.4879°E
Filmed by	1994 Olympic Radio and Television Organisation (NRK ORTO '94)

The opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February 1994 at Lysgårdsbakken in Lillehammer, Norway.

Ceremony

Artistic content was made to present a range of Norwegian culture, included

Olympic oaths were issued by Vegard Ulvang for the athletes and Kari Kåring for the officials.^[5] Finnish Sami poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

On the day of the opening ceremonies,

art thieves stole Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream

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^ and, Jere Longman. "WINTER OLYMPICS; Games Open Amid Pomp, Snow and Quiet Culture". The New York Times.
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Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. "1994 Winter Olympics Report, volume I" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. "1994 Winter Olympics Report, volume II" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. "1994 Winter Olympics Report, volume III" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. "1994 Winter Olympics Report, volume IV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.