Onion Sports recaps the most memorable moments from the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in London.
- The Olympic torch is awkwardly dropped into the River Lea and officials spend 45 minutes trying to fish it out
- Faint sound of 1.34 billion Chinese people laughing, heard five minutes after ceremony’s start
- Tajikistan athletes hamming it up for the largely Tajikistani crowd
- Daniel Craig appears in a short film as James Bond to promote Dow, official chemical company of the Olympic Games
- Queen Elizabeth throws a flaming javelin into a terrified lion
- The official song of the Olympics, performed by the band Muse, celebrates 50 years of British rock and roll and 15 years of overreaction to Radiohead
- Accidentally holding all event finals while athletes still marching out
- Some elaborately choreographed dance routine that, frankly, nobody really cares about
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