Just over seven years after London was awarded the 2012 Olympics, the eyes of the world were on the Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony of the Games. Danny Boyle, the Oscar-winning director ...

The Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Paralympic Games was held on August 29, 2012 at 20:30 local time in the Olympic Stadium. It featured a cast of more than 3,000 adult volunteers, along with ...

Rowan Atkinson's comic performance at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. Although he was performing under his own name, there was certainly a hint of Mr Bean. Atkinson takes to the keyboard as ...

Associated Press Smoke from fireworks surrounds the iconic Tower Bridge over the River Thames in central London, decorated with Olympic rings, during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The London 2012 Closing Ceremony was held at the Olympic Stadium in London on 9 September 2012 at 20:00 BST. It was broadcast of Channel 4 with an audience of roughly 7.7 million viewers. With ...

The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games took place at the Olympic Stadium, seating a massive 80,000 people with more than 7.7 million viewers worldwide. The event was created by ...

There had been a warning to France, right back when it was taking over the flame, that you can’t simply conjure up Olympic magnificence. For the Tokyo closing ceremony three years ago ...

For three weeks in the summer of 2012, the eyes of the world were on London as the city hosted the Olympic Games. After an opening ceremony that was viewed by millions around the world ...

We spoke to four people directly involved in three of the biggest events to happen in Britain in the past 70 years: The London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony; Live Aid in 1985; and the 1953 Coronation.

The highly anticipated opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris ... the late Queen Elizabeth did this at the London 2012 Olympics where she said: "I declare open the Games of London, celebrating ...

and 24.9 percent for the 2012 London Olympics. In the United States, an estimated 17 million people watched NBC’s telecast of the Opening Ceremony in Tokyo, the lowest number over the past 33 ...