2022 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations
parade nation within beijing winter olympics opening ceremony february athlete official participating country marched beijing national stadium preceded flag placard bearer bearing respective country name flag bearer chosen either nation national olympic committee team athlete tradition greece entered first originator olympics china entered last host per new rule introduced international olympic committee summer olympics italy entered secondtolast upcoming host winter olympics nation entered order host nation language simplified chinese part sanction due russian doping scandal russia allowed directly use name flag entered acronym roc russian olympic committee flag announcer stadium read name marching nation mandarin chinese official language host country english french official language olympics music accompanying athlete marched stadium according current version olympic charter nation option two flag bearer man woman effort promote gender equality chinese character alphabetical order sorted based stroke count specifically character fewer stroke march earlier san marino 圣马力诺 marched kyrgyzstan 吉尔吉斯斯坦 圣 stroke 吉 stroke initial character number stroke stroke order two character grouped order 橫竖撇捺折 horizontalverticalleft fallingright fallingfold example denmark 丹麦 marched brazil 巴西 丹 four stroke order ㇓㇆㇔㇐ 巴 four stroke order ㇕丨㇐㇟ second character compared even though 麦 stroke 西 possible pair character stroke count stroke order group occur parade initial character identical second character nation used following list country flag bearer list sorted sequence nation appeared parade nation name given official designation ioc chinese name follow official designation beijing organizing committee olympic paralympic winter game