Dignitaries and Other Officials in Attendance
Aside from celebrities participating in the ceremonies and members of the International Olympic Committee, the following dignitaries and officials associated with the Olympic movement were in attendance.
- Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Organizer of the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cherie Blair, Wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States, and her daughter Barbara
- Harald V and Queen Sonja, King and Queen of Norway
- Horst Köhler, President of Germany
- Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel prize winning physiologist and Italian senator-for-life
- Luca di Montezemolo, President and CEO of Ferrari and chairman of FIAT
- Mitt Romney, Organizer of the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Governor of Massachusetts
- Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
- Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia, host Canadian province of the 2010 Winter Olympics
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was absent.
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