Opening ceremony of London Olympics is going to be a big affair

ONE DAY to go for the world's biggest sports event - the XXX Olympics event better known as London Olympics to start. London won the right to stage the event in Singapore in 2005 against bids from New York, Madrid, Paris and Moscow. London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) are jointly organising the summer Olympics 2012. This event is co-chaired by the Minister for Sport and Olympics and the Mayor of London.

During the 17 days of competitions in London Olympics, 26 Olympic sports will be played at 34 venues. Wenlock and Mandeville is the mascot of the Olympic Games 2012, which are scheduled from July 27 to August 12. The opening ceremony of the mega sports extravaganza will kick off at 9 p.m. on Friday July 27 at the Olympics Stadium in London. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh will officially open the event.

During the opening ceremony the 204 competing nations will parade with their national flag and according to custom, Greece, who hosted the first modern Olympic games in 1896, will lead the parade and the host nation Great Britain will come in last. Other competing countries take part in the parade in alphabetical order. In the Opening Ceremony Olympic flame will ignites the Cauldron.

The name of the Olympic Opening Ceremony show will be called 'Isles of Wonder'. Film Slumdog Millionaire 'Oscar-winning' director Danny Boyle, who is also the Artistic Director of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, and his team will provide an opportunity for the world to view the artistic expression and the culture of London and the UK.

According to the London Olympics official website, the ceremony will kick off with the sound of the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, produced by the Whitechapel Foundry, and the Stadium will be transformed into the British countryside for opening scene ‘Green and Pleasant’, which includes real farmyard animals.

During the event the stadium will be packed with 80,000 spectators, 16,000 athletes, 10,000 performers. In the opening ceremony 70 sheep, 12 horses, ten chickens, three cows, two goats and even dogs and geese will also be the part of it. The Republican Presidential nominee of United States, Mitt Romney, will also attend the event. Along with Mitt Romney hundreds of VVIPs will also attend the event from across the world.

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