{"id":32648,"date":"2012-07-28T01:12:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=32648"},"modified":"2012-07-28T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T18:02:05","slug":"olympic-games-officially-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/olympic-games-officially-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Games officially opened!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_20_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/\">Games of the XXX Olympiad<\/a>\u00a0got underway in London with glamorous ceremony called &#8220;The Isles of Wonder&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some 10,500 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees will compete during the<br \/>\n17-day festival of sports excellence, among them 115 Serbian athletes in 15 sports.<\/p>\n<p>Nole, the 2011 World Sportsman of the Year, proudly carried Serbia&#8217;s flag in parade of nations\u00a0at the Olympic stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I\u2019ll never forget the last night&#8217;s spectacle! The excitement, adrenaline, the atmosphere &#8211; everything was just perfect! A great, positive energy was felt among athletes, as well as among the massive audience. I haven\u2019t felt anything like that in a long time and I&#8217;m still under the strong impression. It really gave us a special motivation boost for the start of the games. Andrija Zlatic won the first medal for our country! Let\u2019s go Serbia!!! Idemo!&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_18_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"786\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_26_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_19_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"802\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_21_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_23_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_24_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_25_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"836\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Olimpijada zvani\u010dno otvorena!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oi_22_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: AP, Getty Images, Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo News] Nole, the 2011 World Sportsman of the Year, proudly carried Serbia&#8217;s flag during the procession of athletes at the Olympic stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32648"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32651,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions\/32651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}