The Games kicked off with a Shakespeare reading, pastoral scenes and the queen. July 27, 2012 — -- London's Olympic Stadium became a vast meadow in an opening ceremony that at first evoked the ...

An estimated one billion people will stop what they are doing to watch the London 2012 opening ceremony Friday, as athletes from across the globe officially open the games of the 30th Olympiad during ...

Oh Danny Boyle. The Slumdog Millionaire director’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics started with such verve and promise. There were fireworks! There were sheep! There were geese! There ...

As eager spectators take in the much anticipated London 2012 opening ceremony, the Olympic Stadium is filled with montages of everyday life in the British Isles: performers playing cricket, ...

30th July 2012 – London – The two companies that made event history by developing the digital artistry and technology behind the London 2012 Opening Ceremonies ‘human-powered’ video screen signed a ...

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Apparently NBC's controversial tape-delay strategy is working. The Olympics opening ceremony drew the largest audience ever for an opening ceremony that didn't take place in the U.S., NBC announced on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Olympic organizers marked the three-year countdown to the London 2012 opening ceremony on Monday with a first time trial of the train that will ferry spectators between ...