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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Humour, pomp and splendour

...at Olympic open­ing cer­e­mo­ny

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The Olympic open­ing cer­e­mo­ny is about spec­ta­cle, not just sport. So grand, breath­tak­ing-and star­tling-scenes were un­veiled at the Olympic Sta­di­um in east Lon­don on Fri­day evening, when film­mak­er Dan­ny Boyle pre­sent­ed prob­a­bly the most orig­i­nal and off­beat open­ing cer­e­mo­ny ever, with live an­i­mals, fluffy ar­ti­fi­cial clouds, and tableaux-re­al and al­most cer­tain­ly imag­ined from British his­to­ry.

And with her majesty Queen Eliz­a­beth II ap­par­ent­ly climb­ing down a rope from a he­li­copter, and the com­ic fig­ure of Mr Bean putting in an ap­pear­ance, the 2012 cer­e­mo­ny was al­so rare, if not unique, in dis­play­ing not just pomp, cer­e­mo­ny and splen­dour, but al­so a sense of hu­mour.


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