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 ...

The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of ...

The public have started entering the Olympic Park ahead of the opening ceremony which begins ... where the first two world records of London 2012 were claimed by South Korea ...

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.

Olympics held in London, part of the opening ceremony involved a short film in which the inimitable, ultra cool James Bond figure (played by Daniel Craig) went to Queen Elizabeth’s Buckingham Palace ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That marked the most viewers since the 2012 London Olympics and was up 60% from the Tokyo Opening Ceremony (17.9 million) in 2021. Additionally, it ranked as the No. 1 event in the history of ...