2012 Summer Olympics Quizzical view.

30th Olympics.

Opening ceremony: At Olympic Stadium.

On 27th July 2012. Officially opened by QUEEN ELIZABETH II ( Also opened 1976 Montreal Olympics) London hosts the third time after a gap of 64 years. (1908,1948 and 2012) Actor DANIEL CRAIG, who has played the fictional spy 007 JAMES BOND in films was shown in a video accompanying the Queen from Buckingham Palace into a waiting helicopter and then taking her to the stadium.

British humour by ROWAN ATKINSON (Mr. Bean). Artistic Director : DANNY BOYLE ( Slumdog Millionaire -8 Oscars) Music direction : UNDERWORLD Games cauldron was made up of 204 copper plates. (Symbolizing 204 countries participating in Oly.) 17 days. 39 disciplines. New event : WOMEN BOXING Beijing Bronze winner wrestler SUSHIL KUMAR led the contingent holding the Indian tricolor Olympic stadium costs 486 million. Also called ISLES OF WONDER. The Ceremony kicked off with the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, produced by the Whitechapel Foundry, being rung by Britain's Tour de France champion BRADLEY WIGGINS

IOC President JACQUES ROGGE. LOCOG Chairman SIR SEBASTIEN COE. SARAH STEVENSON, Taekwondo silver medallist at Beijing 2008 read the Olympic oath.

MIK BASI, a boxing referee born at Newham, read the judges' oath followed by ERIC FARRELL, MBE, who read the coaches' oath.

Official song London Olympics 2012- Survival by MUSE band. Naanthaan ungappanda sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and composed by Ilayaraja for the Kamal Haasanstarrer Ram Lakshman (1981) will be played in the opening ceremony.

This will be the first time that the same essential LOGO is to be used for both the Olympic and Paralympic games by Wolff Olins. This will be the second time that the same mascots are to be used for both the Olympic and Paralympic games. WENLOCK AND MANDEVILLE are the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being held in London, United Kingdom.

Wenlock and Mandeville, which were unveiled as the official 2012 Olympic mascots back in

2010, were created and designed by London-based creative agency Iris. Wenlock Wenlocks name is inspired by Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England, where the Wenlock Olympian Society held its first Olympian Games in 1850, regarded as an inspiration for the modern Olympic games. He has five friendship bracelets on his wrist. Each bracelet takes the color of an Olympic ring. The three points on his head represent the three places on the podium. The pattern on his body with the logo of the games symbolizes the whole world coming to London in 2012. The shape on the front of his head represents the shape of the Olympic stadium roof. In the run-up to the games Wenlock hopes to make as many friends as possible and always looks on the bright side of life. Mandeville Mandeville's name comes from the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England which organised the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948, a competition for injured soldiers; They are regarded as the inspiration for the Paralympics.

OLYMPICS 2012 Chinese shooter Yi Siling won the first gold of the London Olympics. Top-ranked Yi won the womens 10-meter air rifle. Gagan Narang won the bronze medal for India in the 10-m air rifle event at the London Olympics 2012 with Romania's Alin George Moldoveanu winning gold and Italy's Niccolo Campriani winning silver. This was also Indias eighth individual medal in the Olympic Games.(Note that Beijing Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra could not make the final in the same event.) Army sharp shooter Vijay Kumar on Friday fought a nerve-wracking battle with five other top marksmen to clinch the silver medal in the mens 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the Olympic Games. Great Britains Nicola Adams dashed M C Mary Koms hopes of making it to finals as she outclassed iconic Indian pugilist 11-6 in the womens flyweight (51kg) semifinal in London on Wednesday, leaving her to settle for a bronze. Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt clinched the bronze medal in the mens 60 kg freestyle category winning three rounds of repechage after losing to four-time world champion Besik Kudukhov of Russia in the prequarterfinals, at the ExCel Arena on Saturday. Sushil Kumar became the first Indian athlete to win two Olympic medals in individual events when he won the silver medal in mens 66kg freestyle wrestling on Sunday. The mens marathon medal ceremony was conducted as part of tradition, and the Olympic flag changed hands from the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes through the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Dr. Jacques Rogge. Snippet LONDON 2012 Prepared by A. Benedict Florance. **************************************************************************************************