The spirit of the Games
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And thus it is with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. The lighting of the caldron tonight at Rice Eccles Stadium during the opening ceremonies will add the punctuation mark to the phrase, "the spirit of the Olympics."

WTC flag: memorial to peace
Tonight, the tattered American flag recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center will be carried into Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Games by an honor guard of American athletes and other heroes, among them policemen and firemen.

Greetings to all and to all a good Games — at last
On opening day of the 2002 Winter Games, I would like to add my bonjour, buon giorno, ni hao, guten tag, nazdar, hei, kalimera, szia, konnichiwa, annyong ha shimnikah, bom dia, jambo, zdravstvuite, god dag, buna ziua, hallo, vitazyu, zdravo, hola, howdy and hello.

Games evolve from fist to flag