Greatest opening ceremony in history. Period.
August 9, 2008
Olympic Opening Ceremony 2008.
“Memorizing”
Opening Olympic Ceremony Beijing 2008 [SBS News] from South Korea – Daehan Minguk – 大韓民國 – 대한민국 – สาธารณรัฐเกาหลี
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The ceremony was directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and was noted for its focus on ancient Chinese culture and creativity. The final ascent to the torch featured Olympic gold medalist Li Ning, who appeared to run through air around the top ring of the stadium. Noted for a lack of politics in the affair, the ceremony was generally lauded as spectacular and declared the “greatest ever” opening ceremony around the world.
Welcoming Ceremony
A scene at the opening ceremony
The opening ceremony proper began with a contemporary dance by 2,008 Fou dancers on a backdrop of a giant LED paper scroll, representing the first great Chinese invention, paper, and displaying animated graphics. The LED displays were manned entirely by humans only, as they countdown using changing LED panels, forming giant digits to herald the start of the opening time of 8.00 pm, local time.
A trail of 29 colossal firework footprints were seen going off at the rate of 1 per second, one after another, from outside the Stadium, marching along Beijing city’s central axis into the national stadium. They symbolized each of the 29 Olympiads, and celebrated the invention of gunpowder, which is one of the four great Chinese inventions.
Next, twenty “fairies” were suspended on midair as they hovered near giant Olympic rings, each holding 45,000 beads. The Olympics rings were then lifted up high vertically to show the complete Olympics emblem, seemingly by magic.
The flag of the People’s Republic of China was marched in by soldiers. Her anthem was sung by a 224-member choir while the flag was raised.
Attention was then turned to 56 young children representing the 56 ethnic groups of modern China, each donning their ethnic costume. A young girl in red stood apart on a podium, as she sang Sing a Song of Praise to the Motherland.
Beautiful Photo’s
