From the one, single athlete from Paraguay, to the hundreds of dancers and performers to the thousands of volunteers, the Opening Ceremony at the Sochi Games can best be described numerically. Compare Slovakia’s 6-foot-9 Zdeno Chara to the 25-foot high Polar Bear mascot. And how many Olympic rings are there?

Here’s the Opening Ceremony by the numbers.

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