Episode 13, Part 2: Selected Speeches from the Atlanta Olympics Opening Ceremony - Practical English Listening Material

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the opening ceremony of the Games of the 26th Olympia, the Centennial Olympic Games. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Mr. William Porter Billy Payne, and the President of the International Olympic Committee, his Excellency Juan Antonio Seminoff. Tonight, as we together stand on the threshold of the greatest peacetime event in modern history, the centennial celebration of the Olympic Games, as we bear witness to the largest gatherings of nations ever, as we applaud the greatest assembly of athletic talent the world has ever known, let us rejoice and let us resolve that these Olympic Games can reflect a hope for brighter future, a better world. Hope inspired and brought to life by these athletes that they live out their Olympic dreams.

Look into their faces. What do you see? I see a montage of all the world's cultures beautifully distinct yet now in Juan in a quilt of solidarity and friendship. I see you anxiously awaiting and anticipating the glorious moments of the next 16 days, surely, to inspire us all with their heroic achievements, with stretched the limits of human performance. For 100 years, others have seen the special moments of magnificence and for a fleeting moment in time have seen in its symbolism the possibility of a more peaceful and tolerant world.

Others have experienced the compelling power of a world temporarily united in a celebration of all that we share in common, but inevitably, as we have returned home after the Olympic flame has been extinguished so too, of our concept of what is possible in this world been forgotten. Look again into the faces of these athletes. Promise them that you will never forget what you feel and see tonight. Look into their faces and you will see the possibilities. For if we believe there is nothing we cannot achieve and if we dream, all things are possible. Thank you.

I now have the personal pleasure and honor of introducing his excellent C. Juan Antonio Summer-Hotz president of the International Olympic Committee to whom I extend a very warm welcome. Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, your royal highness, this thing is guessed ladies and gentlemen. Atlanta, here we are. And finally, I would like to express our gratitude to the people and governments of the United States of America. The state of Georgia, the city of Atlanta, the national Olympic Committee of the United States, and in particular the Agenda Committee for the Olympic Games, that by Mr. William Porter Payne, we thank all them for their warm and traditional welcome. And also to the tens of thousands of volunteers for their dedicated contributions to the success of the Games. I now have the honor and privilege of inviting the president of the United States to proclaim open the Games of the 26th Olympic Central Games. I declare open the Games of Atlanta celebrating the 26th Olympic of the modern era.

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