Welcoming the World
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Team 2002

Welcoming the World, also, Team 2002. . , Welcoming the World , The Salt Lake 2002 Opening Ceremony featured a child skating around Rice-Eccles Stadium while avoiding a raging storm with a lantern in hand. After the storm of adversity dissipates, this lantern light spread to hundreds of other children and beyond into the crowd. The Children of Light were a powerful symbol in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2002 Games representing youth, hope, courage, idealism, peace and honor. , The Opening Ceremony also featured Native Americans from Utah's five major tribes: Ute, Shoshone, Goshute, Paiute and Dine' (Navajo]. Each tribal leader greeted and blessed an Olympian before the tribes performed an awe-inspiring unified drum dance. , Captions , Fireworks explode in the night sky over Opening Ceremony festivities. Scenes from the 2002 Opening Ceremony festivities. , Team 2002 , "Excellence - the sheer beauty of human excellence is here, possible, part of us, part of life." Mitt Romney Salt Lake Organizing Committee President and CEO Mitt Romney, Welcoming. Selfless. Passionate. Kind. These are just a few of the ways to describe the dedicated Team 2002 volunteers. Over 24,000 volunteers formed the functioning backbone of these Olympic and Paralympic Games with a warm spirit and tireless service.