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2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony: Time, TV Coverage And More

London's newly built Olympic Stadium will be the setting for the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday night.Follow @SBNOlympicsThere have already been games played at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but the Olympics' official start comes with each Olympiad's Opening Ceremony, and that is yet to come. But for Britons and attendees, there isn't that long to wait: "The Isles of Wonder," as the 2012 Opening Ceremony has been dubbed, will begin on Friday at 9 p.m. local time in London at the Olympic Stadium.Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle heads the creative team for the Opening Ceremony, which will celebrate Britain's history and feature chickens, sheep, mosh pits, a rain-producing cloud, the largest harmonically tuned bell in the world, the music of A.R. Rahman and a model of the hill known as the Glastonbury Tor, which many consider to be the place where King Arthur's Avalon sat. Boyle told The Guardian he hopes the Opening Ceremony will reveal "how peculiar and co...

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