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Ceremonia de inauguración de los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012: Galería en Bekia
After having slept only for 4 and half hours I feel unwell. And I am angry to myself, why did I stay awake and watch the ceremony, because it was so disappointing. I love the Olympics and watch different sports there as much as I can, and the opening ceremomy gives me the olympic spirit that lasts during the whole games. This time it didn't happen.
For me the good things were
- the countryside at the beginning was good
- the children singing
- the parade with the olympic flag and the bearers of it: Haile Gebrselassie, Ban Ki-moon and others
- David Beckham and sir Steve Redgrave were honoured as the cauldron carriers, the Beckham part was filmed great, it looked very good: the river, the night, the lights and a handsome man. And the organizing committee succeeded to give Beckham a big role at the opening ceremony, although he wasn't at the stadium. And that was a good choice, he isn't an olympic athlete.
- One great music piece: Chariots of Fire, played by London Symphony Orchestra
- memorizing the World War and 7th July
- The speeches of lord Sebastian Coe and Jacques Rogge
- The athletes marching in and the royals and head of states cheering for them.
The negative things
- The Queen and James Bond. There was nothing good in it. Mixing the Regent of our time, The Queen, with a fictional figure was so vain and it took all the dignity from the opening ceremony. The Queen is unique, no other country has that. She could have entered in her normal way with a fanfare, that would have been dignified and grand. That would have given the final touch to this ceremony
- The wonderful music piece, Chariots of Fire, was totally destroyed by putting Mr Bean there, he could have performed with the Arctic Monkeys or with sir Paul.
- There should have been texts on TV so that one could have understood what happened. People like me, who don’t know the history of Great Britain very well and Harry Potter at all, didn’t understand much and it was boring. Our finnish commentators tried to explain it, but it didn't help.
- Almost all the music was bad, and sir Paul in the end wasn’t a highlight. I love sir Paul, but his “Hey Jude” was a tired performance and too melancholic to end the ceremony.
- Lighting the Olympic fire, perhaps the biggest disappointment. I was waiting for a great former british athlete to get the honour so that the moment would have been dignified and memorable. Now it wasn’t and it didn’t raise the Olympic spirit at all. If London wanted many lighters, they could have chosen seven great athletes to do it.
- The ceremony was too long. The first part before the inmarch of the athletes should have been shortened.