Olympic ceremonies

London has bid farewell to the 2012 Olympic Games with a blazing tribute to 50 years of British music and culture.

Fifty thousand live audience members joined the final countdown to the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games opening ceremony.

The world-famous pianist Lang Lang appears to have ‘performed’ on a fake piano at the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing, China last week.

German fencer Imke Duplitzer, who boycotted the Opening Ceremony, shares her thoughts on Olympic values, China and human rights

School child walking with Yao Ming during the Opening Ceremony holds flag upside down. An upside-down flag is the international nautical convention for “great distress.”

While an estimated 3 billion viewers who tuned in to the opening ceremony marvelled at the military-like drumming and synchronisation, the acts showed a country vastly different from the issues China has been confronted with in the lead-up to the Games.

The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) is predicting a 40 percent chance of rain the day of the Olympics’ opening ceremony.

Chinese authorities are anxious to publicize a list of about 80 foreign leaders who have accepted the invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics.