Wow!! What a Opening Ceremony. I bet you London can not beat that come 2012.

seunbballo:

Wow!! What a Opening Ceremony. I bet you London can not beat that come 2012.

Where will they get the money from??

I bet the British may have started lobbying China behind the scenes for loan

the ceremoney is da best i have ever seen , fireworkss. and the stadia.

big ups china

Some pictures from the opening ceremony. Nobody should have missed that kind of **_{can't find a word to describe it}** though

olympic rings, suspended


rings illuminated


young girl suspended


art performance




acrobats create human bird's nest


martial artists perform kung fu




urrm. .  we know this guy right?


another space walk


general view of bird's nest


piano performance; and much more!


human art


more


one world, one dream


passing the flame


from the US of A


from Great Britain ( men that guy is talll


"i do solemnly swear", or, what it means in Chinese


wow (do you notice the pictures on top?)


the flame



Source: http://en.beijing2008.cn/photo/ceremonies




And true talk, London has got to step the game up men. Their culture is not really rich though, they may just do more of 'science' than a 'fusion of science and culture', as yesterday's was described by Supersport.

And lest I forget, DVDs of the Olympics coming to an igbo boy near you _{me sef I recorded my own with pvr and burnt it}

GRAB YOUR COPY!!

Lovely pics

looking like a computer processor

egokanwa:

looking like a computer processor

meaning?

Where will they get the money from??

Same place China got it from ,, ;

Go to Africa, recruit their labour, pay them cheap, put the expatriate people in charge, use the cheap African labour to mine their minerals and ship to a foreign country, sell the products and keep the money in the foreign country.  At G8 meeting offer to help develop Africa and pledge donations but dont follow through.

Thanks for those pix, last night was a very awe inspiring moment.

Somebody said the British flag bearer is very tall, ; you must be short if thats what you call very tall

All you naysayers dissing us Brits, we shall shock all of you.

Someone here actually intoned we have no culture. . . . . .the cheek

the Scots have no culture, the Welsh have no culture, Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, Yorkshire/ / /
My goodness.

You all should realise, Australians and Americans are basically an extension of the British Diaspora.

And if they can hold an opening ceremony, you can bet your Scottish Kilt we will put on a hell of a show.


@topic

I still think the lighting of the flame by the Archer at Barcelona is the best Opening ceremony moment I have seen.

Well, nice pictures but I bet London will definitely beat this come 2012.Wait till then,you will see where the money will come from. Trust my World best Chancellor & PM.

yea we can't wait to see you people in your plaid skirts riverdancing all over the street screaming in Cockney.

Doponu

KarmaMod:

yea we can't wait to see you people in your plaid skirts riverdancing all over the street screaming in Cockney.

Doponu

LMAO!!

at Ruby

I saw the opening ceromony already. I thought I missed it but my friends told me it just started.

I will love the 2016 Olympics to be held in CHICAGO!!!

it was reported in the news today that china spent whooping 40billion dollars on this olympics alone. that amount is

doyin13:

All you naysayers dissing us Brits, we shall shock all of you.

Someone here actually intoned we have no culture. . . . . .the cheek

the Scots have no culture, the Welsh have no culture, Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, Yorkshire/ / /
My goodness.

You all should realise, Australians and Americans are basically an extension of the British Diaspora.

And if they can hold an opening ceremony, you can bet your Scottish Kilt we will put on a hell of a show.

Don't mind the HATERS. . . . .
They will come back here and eat back their technicolor yawn.
We got everything. . . . .the money, the human resources and the weather.
God Bless The Queen.

a top british offical told cnn they can't match china's spectacular opening ceremony come london 2012.

Hannibal:

Don't mind the HATERS. . . . .
They will come back here and eat back their technicolor yawn.
We got everything. . . . .the money, the human resources and the weather.
God Bless The Queen.

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It was breathtaking!!! I was like we Nigerians have a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg way to go.

sure, year 3000 sth.

LOLOLOL.

Well my mom told me that once Nigeria was suppose to hold Mrs. World, but unfortunatley being a mostly Islamic country, the northerners raided the area and all the ladies ran and said they would never come back.

OMG are you serious? What kind of idiocrisy is that?

Lol the same weather that nearly ruined Wimbledon

turned a 2 hr teenis match to 7 hrs

Please would you guys allow me to simply call it a 10 star performance. It was just to breathtaking. No long thing.

All the swimming events, the gymnastic events and the long distance cycling are such an awesome delight to watch. The fitness required is something else, and their physical condition and looks, OMG!
A challenge to those who don't give a siht about fitness and exercise and to all the orobokibos of land naira who just keep stuffing in more and more, get off your surplus and do something. 'm warning yu o! health is wealth, make yu no stand up one day just fall yakata, come wake up for yonder! one ear do sharp man.

On a sad note, "the fatal stabbing of the father of a former Olympian at a Beijing landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Olympic competition Saturday, just hours after China's jubilant opening of the Summer Games.
Todd and Barbara Bachman of Lakeville, Minn. — parents of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth "Wiz" Bachman and in-laws of U.S. men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon — were attacked by a Chinese man while visiting the 13th-century Drum Tower.

The assailant, Tang Yongming, 47, leapt to his death from a 130-foot high balcony on the Drum Tower, just five miles from the main Olympics site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed Bachman died from knife wounds and that Barbara Bachman suffered life-threatening lacerations and stab wounds. She and their Chinese tour guide, who was also injured in the attack, were being treated in a Beijing hospital".

Violent crime against foreigners is rare in tightly controlled China, and the assault occurred despite major security measures that have blanketed the capital city during the Olympics: A 100,000-strong security force plus countless volunteer guards have been deployed to protect against any trouble.

Beijing's Communist leaders are hypersensitive about anything that could take the shine off the games. China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei visited the Bachmans in the hospital". Source, Yahoo News.

Sad ehn

color=#006600]@ Where will they get the money from??

I bet the British may have started lobbying China behind the scenes for loan[/color]

Infact Gordon Brown still dey look 4 money from taxpayer and lotteryfund to fund london olympics 2012. The Opening ceremony is gonno be poor as well. Resourceless Country!!

seunbballo:

color=#006600]@ Where will they get the money from??

I bet the British may have started lobbying China behind the scenes for loan[/color]

Infact Gordon Brown still dey look 4 money from taxpayer and lotteryfund to fund london olympics 2012. The Opening ceremony is gonno be poor as well. Resourceless Country!!

Higher taxes on you brits!!!

The opening ceremony was amazing, the chinese did very well.

The Joker:

All the swimming events, the gymnastic events and the long distance cycling are such an awesome delight to watch. The fitness required is something else, and their physical condition and looks, OMG!
A challenge to those who don't give a siht about fitness and exercise and to all the orobokibos of land naira who just keep stuffing in more and more, get off your surplus and do something. 'm warning yu o! health is wealth, make yu no stand up one day just fall yakata, come wake up for yonder! one ear do sharp man.

On a sad note, "the fatal stabbing of the father of a former Olympian at a Beijing landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Olympic competition Saturday, just hours after China's jubilant opening of the Summer Games.
Todd and Barbara Bachman of Lakeville, Minn. — parents of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth "Wiz" Bachman and in-laws of US. men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon — were attacked by a Chinese man while visiting the 13th-century Drum Tower.

The assailant, Tang Yongming, 47, leapt to his death from a 130-foot high balcony on the Drum Tower, just five miles from the main Olympics site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The US. Olympic Committee confirmed Bachman died from knife wounds and that Barbara Bachman suffered life-threatening lacerations and stab wounds. She and their Chinese tour guide, who was also injured in the attack, were being treated in a Beijing hospital".

Violent crime against foreigners is rare in tightly controlled China, and the assault occurred despite major security measures that have blanketed the capital city during the Olympics: A 100,000-strong security force plus countless volunteer guards have been deployed to protect against any trouble.

Beijing's Communist leaders are hypersensitive about anything that could take the shine off the games. China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei visited the Bachmans in the hospital". Source, Yahoo News.

Sad ehn

Yes o, trully amazing!!
Especially the female voilleyball team.

I heard about the voilent assualt on NBC, so sad!

Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 9:29 pm EDT

Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked
By Chris Chase

If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But -- hold on -- it's not necessarily as bad as you think.

The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I'm not sure it's such a terrible thing.

The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less impressive? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn't really that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up, then we'll have problems, China.

Source: Yahoo News


No be only naija bad belle dey.

hen hen, i talk am, britain don enter trouble. wetin dem go come don now oooo. o, i just dey sorry for dem o. okay may be dem go come thief traditional ideas from Africa, as dem take thief our artifacts. Oh, China don put Britain for big wahala o. Anyway the "LADS" will need to think up something fast, cus, Four years aint that long a time.

@dOYIN13

@topic

I still think the lighting of the flame by the Archer at Barcelona is the best Opening ceremony moment I have seen.


God bless you! I did not think anyone would remember that. It was breathtaking and it still remains my best, if one should use the word spectacular for an event, then that one takes it.

Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked
By Chris Chase

If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But -- hold on -- it's not necessarily as bad as you think.

The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I'm not sure it's such a terrible thing.

The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less impressive? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn't really that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up, then we'll have problems, China.

Source: Yahoo News

BullShyit!!! What is Chris Chase smoking A pool of more than one thousand individually manned cameras positioned at different angles, none of which was chained together for synchronized output, was fake? You can generate sky displays with laser, with accompanied soundbites, but you cannot generate after-burn smoke with lasers. It should be passed on to MythBusters for fact finding - Chase (The Party-Pooper) will be dissapointed.

klas:

Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 9:29 pm EDT

Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked
By Chris Chase

If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But -- hold on -- it's not necessarily as bad as you think.

The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I'm not sure it's such a terrible thing.

The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less impressive? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn't really that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up, then we'll have problems, China.

Source: Yahoo News


No be only naija bad belle dey.

I was about to post this myself. You beat me to it.

eh ehhe ehh

TV effect