Opening Ceremony lives up to expectations

We had the tremendous privilege to see the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympics last night. It certainly lived up to all the expectations. Everybody seemed to enjoy it tremendously.

There were some fantastic set pieces. The drummers to start, the wall symbology, the one world one dream sequence and the lifting of the final torch bearer into the rafters were all stunning realised.

I'm sure that it was a televsion spectacular. Although for us in the audience there were a couple of minor niggles.

Firstly, the production was all towards the VIPs, so we had a lot of back views of the action. But the main disappointment was that we couldn't see the torch from inside the stadium!

The Games have now begun a sixteen days of competition await.

Waiting on the Opening Ceremony

With just a few hours to go until the Opening Ceremony begins, we're just about to leave for the Stadium. Their is huge exitment here in Beijing. We passed a registry office on the to a shopping expedition this morning, and saw several couples coming out with their marriage licences. Apparantly 16,000 couples are getting married today in China on this lucky day.

We have heard that Mark Foster will be carrying the flag for GB.

I wonder how they will light the torch.

One month to go

One month to go! We've got tickets to the Opening Ceremony. Can't wait!

Fifteen Months to Go

It is now fifteen months to go until the Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2008. With the full competition schedule now available on the Beijing 2008 ticketing site, we are now able to look at what events we want to try to get tickets for.

Role on 8th August 2008!

Olympic Experience

Events that we are considering seeing for the enhancement 'Olympic Experience'.

• Badminton (preliminaries)
• Basketball
• Beach Volleyball
• Closing Ceremony
• Cycling - Mountain Bike
• Gymnastics - Rhythmic
• Handball
• Hockey (preliminaries)
• Opening Ceremony
• Volleyball
• Water Polo