어제밤 11시 14분(EST) 러시아 소치에서 동계 올림픽 개회식이 열렸다.
이로서 17일간의 지구촌 겨울 스포츠 축제가 시작되는것이다.

주최국 러시아를 비롯 88개 국가가 참석 화려하게 개막되었다.
개막식 중계는 오늘 저녁 7시 30분(EST) NBC에서 delay 중계됩니다.  규정

사진 몇장 첨부 합니다. 규정






옥의 티, 주최측의 잘못으로 5륜기가 4륜기가 되었다










마지막 성화주자들,러시아 아이스 하키 영웅,불라디 슬라프 트레티아크와 피겨여신 이리나 로드니나
















토마스 바흐 IOC 위원장의 연설

태극의 우리 청년용사들,
평소에 훈련하고 노력한 온갖 역량을 그대로 발휘하기를 기원합니다.

이들과 함께 순수한 스포츠 정신으로 온 땅의 우리 민족은 한 마음으로 뭉치고 있습니다!

SOCHI, Russia — The party that is the Winter Olympics officially began on Friday night inside a new stadium on the shores of the Black Sea.
The Russians brought out their best entertainment: top ballet dancers, dramatic re-enactments of Russian history, an opera singer whose voice was so strong it seemed to shake the Olympic stadium. It was so entrancing, and ran so smoothly, that it was tempting to forget what was behind the pageantry and sparkle.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, was hoping for that to happen. He said earlier Friday that he was “longing” for the Games to begin. And it’s no wonder.
This week Sochi was like a party host whose guests had shown up way too early: just out of the shower, hair in curlers, no makeup, dirty dishes in the sink.
Finishing touches, including some important ones, like bathrooms, were still being applied. Some housing was not ready. Some of it was less funny. One colleague witnessed city workers enticing stray dogs — which are all over this city, though in rapidly decreasing numbers over the past week — with meat, a meal that could very well have been their last.
But all that should not overshadow the bigger issues of these Games, including Russia’s oppressive antigay law and its suffocating restrictions on freedom of speech. Those two issues cannot be lost amid the chaos surrounding these Games, and even the competitions about to begin.
It is a certainty that at the same time athletes are celebrated for winning medals, some Russian citizens will be treated far less well — cruelly in fact — for speaking their mind or for being gay. Dmitry Chernyshenko, the head of the Sochi organizing committee, even tried to stifle athletes from speaking their minds about politics in official interview areas in the Olympic Park. But Bach, at his first Olympics as president of the I.O.C., quickly overruled him.
That was not the first time Bach, who is from Germany, took a stand at these Games. He took a bold one on Friday, with the world watching.
At the opening ceremony, during which he sat next to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, Bach gave a strong speech to kick off the Olympics. He made points that sounded like sharp digs at Putin and the law he signed that banned the distribution of so-called gay propaganda to children in Russia.
In the most refreshing speech by an I.O.C. president in decades, Bach did not kowtow to the host country. He said the Olympics should set an example for “human diversity and great unity.”
“To the athletes, you have come here with your Olympic dream,” he said. “You are welcome, no matter where you come from or your background. Yes, it’s possible even as competitors to live together and to live in harmony with tolerance and without any form of discrimination for whatever reason.”
He did not have to come out and say it, but many people who heard him knew exactly what he meant.
Most of the spectators were from Russia, some in parkas with their country’s name on the back in Cyrillic letters, others wrapped in the white, blue and red of their nation’s flag.
As those people and others filed into the Olympic Park, I could not find a single person wearing Team USA gear. That was not a surprise, since the State Department had issued a travel warning for Americans coming to Sochi because of fears of terrorism. But I did track down four British men in Team GB coats, all of whom had been involved in the London Games two years ago.
“When I came into the airport, the woman who checked me in was miserable, and people don’t seem very happy here,” said Robin Money, a consultant and former director of sports marketing for Adidas in Britain and Ireland.
“But the opening ceremony is an important trigger. We learned that in London. After this, maybe they’ll actually smile.”
He was partly right. By the end of the night, some Russians were beaming.
Outside the stadium, as athletes from all nations marched into the opening ceremony, volunteers formed a cordon on either side of them. As each country’s delegation passed by, the volunteers cheered. Swe-den! Swe-den! Or Jap-an! Jap-an! And, yes, even U-S-A! U-S-A!
Of course, they cheered loudest for Russia’s athletes. As they applauded, a stray dog was sprawled out behind them, chewing on a Sochi 2014 glove someone had dropped by Juliet Macur, NYTimes, Feb 7, 2014