The opening ceremony of the Olympics is an hour away, and the world is preparing for a couple of weeks of sporting glory.
The Internet giant Google joined the festivities (although based in the U.S., has operations worldwide), and features a theme of the Olympics doodle on their homepage today, the celebration of the opening ceremony.
These are some of the things that happen during the ceremony, according London2012.com:
The ceremony ends with the arrival of the Olympic flame, which is passed through to the end that athletes carrying the torch lit the cauldron. This means that the FO beginning of the game, and the flame burns everything.
Walk every athlete, coach, judge and host of the platform, holding a corner of the flag of the IOC in the left hand. Each of them raised his right hand and took the oath, pledging to compete and judge according to the rules of their sport.
The Olympic flag is carried out in the stadium stood up at once the anthem played.
Made use of the LOCOG Chairman Seb Coe and Rogge.Then, the Queen will be invited to officially declare open the Games.
There is a parade of athletes - a procession of all participating teams, country by country in alphabetical order (except for the Greek team, which is the first, and the host country, the latest in equipment.
The Head of State is received by the state president of the IOC. Jacques Rogge, will welcome the Queen.
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