August 08, 2008
Summer Olympics @ 7:30pm
It's opening night for the Beijing Olympic Games as National Stadium, aka "The Bird's Nest," welcomes 10,000 performers, 91,000 on-site attendees and a television audience expected to be in the billions for the opening ceremony. The traditional elements of this gala event are the parade of athletes (Greece is the first of 205 countries; host China arrives last) and, in what has become an Olympic tradition, the "Can You Top This?" lighting of the Olympic cauldron. An elaborate...
