Olympic Opening Ceremonies 2012

By Saudia Mohamed

As fireworks lit up the heavens above the Olympic’s opening ceremony, watched by over a billion people, were viewed by an estimated 27 million people in the UK.

The ceremonies welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, marking an historic third time the capital has hosted the world’s biggest and most important sporting event!!!

A commentator described the curtain raiser, directed by award winning film director, Danny Boyle, as bold British, and bonkers. This probably sums up most accurately the epic three and a half hour extravaganza, which cost almost 27 million pounds!!! Yonkers!

The opening ceremony was laced with ecstatic humor and surprises. The Queen stole the show by far by making her acting debut in a sequence with James Bond, and Daniel Craig.

Amazing. Gulps, gasps, eyes closed from audience and viewers of the Queen, who by this time had been replaced by a stand in, was shown parachuting from a helicopter to the stadium. Now that was something!

The spectacular finale of the event saw the Olympic Cauldron, formed of 205 copper petals representing the competing nations coming together in London for the Games, got lit up by seven young Torchbearers nominated by Britain’s past and present Olympic and sporting greats.