People Who've Opened the Olympics

Name the people who have officially declared open the Olympic Games.

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Year	Host	Opener	Title
1896	Athens	George I	King of Greece
1900	Paris	No official opening
1904	St. Louis	David R. Francis	President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
1908	London	Edward VII	King of the United Kingdom
1912	Stockholm	Gustaf V	King of Sweden
1920	Antwerp	Albert I	King of Belgium
1924	Paris	Gaston Doumergue	President of France
1928	Amsterdam	Prince Hendrik	Prince Consort of the Netherlands
1932	Los Angeles	Charles Curtis	Vice President of the United States
1936	Berlin	Adolf Hitler	German Fuhrer
1948	London	George VI	King of the United Kingdom
1952	Helsinki	Juho Kusti Paasikivi	President of Finland
1956	Melbourne	Prince Phillip	Duke of Edinburgh
1960	Rome	Giovanni Gronchi	President of Italy
1964	Tokyo	Hirohito	Emperor of Japan
1968	Mexico City	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz	President of Mexico
1972	Munich	Gustav Heinemann	President of West Germany
1976	Montreal	Elizabeth II	Queen of Canada
1980	Moscow	Leonid Brezhnev	Chairman of the Soviet Union
1984	Los Angeles	Ronald Reagan	President of the United States
1988	Seoul	Roh Tae-woo	President of South Korea
1992	Barcelona	Juan Carlos I	King of Spain
1996	Atlanta	Bill Clinton	President of the United States
2000	Sydney	William Deane	Governor General of Australia
2004	Athens	Konstantinos Stephanopoulos	President of Greece
2008	Beijing	Hu Jintao	President of China
2012	London	Elizabeth II	Queen of the United Kingdom
2016	Rio de Janeiro	Michel Temer	Vice President of Brazil
2021	Tokyo	Naruhito	Emperor of Japan
2024	Paris	Emmanuel Macron	President of France

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