The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, the first city to organize the Summer Olympics, in 2008, and the Winter Olympics, began Friday at 8:00 p.m. local (1:00 p.m. French) in the National Stadium.
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The Beijing Olympics will be declared officially open during this ceremony, around 9:25 p.m. local time, by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who received his Russian "friend" Vladimir Putin earlier in the day, while the United States and the Great Britain in particular is diplomatically boycotting these Olympics.