US President Hubert Hoover couldn't justify traveling by train cross country from Washington DC to Los Angeles during the middle of the Great Depression to open the 1932 Olympics. And there was no sound technology available in film in 1928 when held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
君が代 / Kimigayo “Kimigayo” was adopted from Japanese classic poems books “Waka .” The meaning is that “ My beloved your life/prosperity can be said eternal for thousands or eight thousand years, and that the small stone will become a big stone and last for a long time until the moss grows on the rock.” In another interpretation, it also means “ The times of His Majesty the Emperor.”
The irony of the man standing there at the opening ceremony in 1964 would have been the same man standing there should the Tokyo 1940 Olympics had taken place. The same man that authorised December 7th 1941.
In Barcelona 92, both Spanish and Catalan national anthems were played, in recognition of Catalonia's status as a nationality in Spain, and the King entered while the Catalan anthem was played in recognition of that. You should have uploaded them both. But otherwise I like the video.
Todo bonito y espectacular hasta q llegó París 2024 y su p3nd3jada de la inclusión en la inauguración y de atletas trans q se convirtió en la peor de todas