Why India will enter 21st at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony

Friday, 23 July 2021Newsdesk

At the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, India will be 21st out of 205 contingents in the Parade of Nations. The United Arab Emirates will be among the first 10 entrants, while Australia and Austria will enter after Ukraine and Uruguay. The teams enter the stadium in alphabetical order according to the language selected by the organising committee, generally the dominant language in the host city. The announcers first call out a country’s name in French and English — the official languages for the Games according to Rule 23 of the Olympic Charter — and then the chosen language.

New Delhi, 23 July 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express,For example, at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, nations entered according to the ‘Hangul’ alphabetical order, while at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the Cyrillic alphabet was used.The Parade of Nations always begins with Greece, the host of the ancient Olympics and the first modern one. And the host nation always closes out the ceremony. This year, in order to promote future editions, the IOC wanted the next two Olympic hosts to precede Japan. So, the order at the end on Friday will be 2028 hosts United States, 2024 hosts France and Team Japan.

Source -The Indian Express