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    28 July 2012| last updated at 07:03AM

    Let the Games begin



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    LONDON: The opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games got under way in front of a star-studded crowd of 80,000 spectators at London's Olympic Stadium.

    Britain's newly crowned Tour de France cycling champion Bradley Wiggins launched proceedings, ringing the giant Olympic Bell stationed at one end of the stadium.

    It marked the start of a much-anticipated three-hour show, which has been put together by Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle.

     

    Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Olympic Opening Ceremony was viewed live by a worldwide TV audience of over a billion people.

    The ceremony is an attempt to capture a picture of Britain as a nation, where it have come from and where the country wants to be.

     

    The opening ceremony is a celebration showcasing the best of the host nation. It also featured a parade of all competing nations and the highly anticipated entrance of the Olympic Flame, which ignited the Cauldron and signals the start of the Games.

    Themed, ‘Isles of Wonder’, the ceremony kicked off with the sound of the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, produced by the Whitechapel Foundry, and the Stadium was transformed into the British countryside for opening scene ‘Green and Pleasant’, which included real farmyard animals. The ceremony also included a special sequence celebrating the best of British.

     

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