The much anticipated day of Beijing Olympics 2008 finally opened yesterday, on the 8th day of the 8th month, of the 08 year at 8pm. Yesterday after work, on my way home, I got stuck in a bad jam which is quite unusual. I guess everyone was rushing home so that they don't miss the opening ceremony.
The starting performance was pretty awesome, as they got thousands of people to synchronize on some performances. Especially the part where they have blocks of letter cubes in synchronized patterns. Details of the opening ceremony can be found on the official website here.
After the performances, participants from all over the world starts marching in. Took quite a few hours to have all of them walk through the main area.
Finally, the event ends with the lighting of the fire pit, which is also one of the highlights of the night. After Barcelona's archer shooting the flame to light the pit, many are wondering what would China do to top that. Apparently they used technology in this case, to lift the ex gymnastic gold medalist Li Ning on wires so that it seems like he was making a round in the stadium, in the air. Should be quite tiring for him as he has to act like he was walking on air.
Overall it's a successful olympic opening. As some say, having a successful opening is almost like 50% of the whole event is already a success. Although I'm not much of a sports fan, I still look forward to see record breaking moments in this year's game.
3 comments:
Yeah, i truly enjoy the opening ceremony, especially the highlight of the night ~ Li Ning running on the air as if he was making a round in the birdnest stadium, and lighting the flame cauldron. Amazing..
Too bad i miss out the initial part of the opening ceremony.
I missed the entire opening ceremony. Don't have Astro and forgotten to switch to TV1 although I switched to every other channels to check which was showing the ceremony ~__________~"
Not a huge fan of sports either. So , I suppose I would be pretty outdated on the game's update =p Anyway, bet my colleagues around me would be talking about it and hence, shall benefit from it ;-)
chen: sure got replays on TV, just watch out for the time schedules... hahaha. but I know you already found it on Youtube :P
petite: maybe channels like NTV7 would plan to do replays? otherwise best source would be Youtube.com :P
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