Aboriginal people of Canada dance around Welcoming Poles during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press)
A snowboarder sails through the Olympic rings during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Amy Sancetta / Associated Press)
Georgia's Iason Abramashvili, second from left, wears a black armband in memory of Nodar Kumaritashvili of Georgia, who died during luge training on Friday, during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (David Phillip / Associated Press)
Georgia's Iason Abramashvili carries the flag during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Mark Terrill / Associated Press)
A performer is silhouetted during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press)
US athletes march in during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (David Phillip / Associated Press)
Canadian athletes march in during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (David Phillip / Associated Press)
Germany's Andre Lange carries the flag Germany during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press)
Performers are seen next to a giant illuminated bear during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (David Phillip / Associated Press)
South Korea's Kwang-Bae Kang carries the flag as other nations' Olympians parade during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press)
Japan's Tomomi Okazaki carries the flag during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Mark Baker / Associated Press)
Photos from the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010.
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The show went on – with grief and a closing glitch. The Olympics’ opening ceremonies unfolded in a mostly jubilant atmosphere, with an upbeat crowd filling BC Place Stadium only hours after a luger from the country of Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, was killed in a horrific training-run crash at Whistler.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With the din of Canada's pride careening through domed BC Place like a Rocky Mountain storm, the 2010 Winter Olympics began Friday night with history's first indoor opening ceremonies, a laser-lit spectacle that — for a few hours anyway — obscured the troubles already besetting these Games.