Salt Lake Games open with music, pageantry and security

More than 50,000 spectators gathered at Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony.


SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 8 — On a brisk Utah night, with temperatures dipping into the teens and light snow falling from the skies, America welcomed the world to play in peace and harmony on the slopes and in the arenas of the Wasatch Range for the next 17 days as the curtain raised on the XIX Olympic Winter Games.