Beijing 2008 remains the best opening ceremony everything from the firework footprints to the drummers and the scroll painting, that ceremony was a beautiful, moving tribute to Chinese history and culture
I think Beijing's 2008 Opening was way ahead of its time. There's simply no other openings that can surpass it, not even its own when it hosts the Winter Olympics in 2022.
Athens 2004 also had certain technical elements that audiences may not directly see but were also way ahead of its time such as draining gallons of water in a mere 2 minutes to a dry surface and the laser water screen that projected a spinning dna double helix.
Athens 2004 always my favorite. I watched it from Opening to the Closing. I was very impressed & in awe. Especially to have witnessed the Olympics at a conscious age- 16 at time. Before then, I'd only heard of the Atlanta Games & glanced the Sydney Opening Ceremony. Beijing was impressive as well, in my top 3.
Honestly, the most incredible part of London 2012 was the massive display of their history they pulled off with some of the most badass music I've ever heard. And in the same city, 1948... it was the Scouts who led the way. Nobody could be more fitting for a new, international era. Youth who hadn't fought the last war, all part of an global organisation focused around cooperation and self-improvement.
@@mercury6765 You have to be somewhat a marksman with a bow to do that. Rebollo flung the arrow on a perfect line with the cauldron, which had gas lines in it to help ignite the flame once it flew past. If the arrow was too high or low, it would have missed the gas line.
It's unbelievable that the official account doesn't even play the most marvellous moment of Beijing's ceremony. I want to watch the Five rings and countdown moments!
Barcelona 1992 definitely had the best cauldron lighting not only because of the epic bow and arrow shot, but also they got a Paralympian to do it too! Antonio remains the only Paralympian to light the Olympic cauldron. He deserved an honorary Olympic medal for that incredible feat, on top of his Paralympic medals
It's unbelievable that the official account doesn't even play the most marvellous moment of Beijing's ceremony. I really want to watch the Five rings and the countdown moments!
Nobody could beat Beijing 2008 one. The country freak me out. They hold the events regardless of the cost. London felt huge pressure. Admittedly, it was amazing.
Beijing was the best in the Opening ceremony as well as the closing ceremony... It gave us Indians hope that we can win more than a single MEDAL in the Games. And wow, an Individual Gold Medal for India as well. Beijing was the start and best ever performance by India in the Games. Hopefully we can surpass it by winning atleast 2 Gold Medals and reach double digits in total....
@Dance With Rupa maybe you are quite poor in English. But that's okay. Being poor in English does not really matter much to be honest. Now coming back to the point, did I use the word "because"? I don't know what you understood. But I just stated the facts. I hope a fake troll account like you doesn't take this as an insult. Cheers!
@@daxil44 such a pathetic display from your Bangladesi Olympics team all the time. I hope you are thrashed once again in the Olympics, before you compare yourself with India. 😂😂😂
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics gives me goosebumps !! In a matter of 20 years a nation stood so tall that it even conducted the world's largest sporting event. Massively inspiring
The opening ceremony in 2008 must be one of the best in history. Those who attack it without hesitation are exposing your ignorance. What you don't know is how much time and energy it takes to rehearse such a shocking performance, as well as the national connotation expressed by the performance. I think the shock and sense of identity of this kind of art are the same for all mankind. I'm talking about people.
I would say the olympic openings and closings from 2000 up until 2008 I would say are mind-blowing. After the 2000s, pretty much it's been less spectacular as I got older. However, with the paris olympics occuring nearly 100 years after it was once hosted in 1924, considering two of the greatest athletics in track and field at that time which inspired the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, that has to be something special and a honor for paris, france to host it again on the same year as it occurred back in 1924.
@@danielsmith7383 Surveys have shown that London's paled in comparison to Beijing's. The UK also admitted it and said they won't try and beat Beijing as they raised the bar so high.
Athens Olympic Games Opening Ceremony -----Tranquillity Elegance Beijing -----Grand and substantial London -----Rock band concert Rio -----Passionate and exuberant Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony ----.......
In my opinion: The "Queen" skydiving is still the most original and Muhammad Ali lighting the fire is still the most moving moment for me. Otherwise I can't help thinking of the incredible amounts of money going into these bombastic shows ...
By comparison with the average Hollywood action movie, the money spent on these ceremonies (typical worldwide audience approximately a billion) is peanuts
In my opinion, the most spectacular Olympic opening ceremony in history was Athens 2004, it was like seeing the most colossal theater production in the world on a journey from the beginnings of Hellenic mythology and the wonderful culture of the Aegean to the present day. It will hardly be surpassed, considering that the IOC wants to scale down the Olympians to avoid animosity towards the event. Regarding the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, I think the most iconic was Barcelona 1992, however I consider that the most spectacular due to the scale of production and effects was Sydney 2000.
@@jayantjha3128 It is your opinion and it is completely acceptable. The opinions that are expressed in this space are totally subjective, which means that nobody has the absolute truth. I have read consultations on many websites that classify the Athens 2004 opening ceremony as the most beautiful in history, others think that Beijing 2008, others consider that it was Barcelona 1992. In each case, a show concept conceived with an ambition different. Beijing 2008 was apotheosis and extravagant on all sides, revealing the Chinese sentiment towards the western world of the bigger, taller and more massive the better. A multimillion-dollar show with masterful mass choreography conceived to leave everyone with their mouths open and to make China's ambition as an economic power very clear. I think nobody disputes that.
Now I can see the inspiration for Asian Games 2018 opening in Indonesia. 1. President enter the stadium doing Motorcycle stunt : clear inspired from the queen and bond. 2. Thousand Dancer : inspired from Beijing Drummer.
and it literally reshaped the city and the people. the entire city has become cleaner, more organized, cultural but modern as ever, and sports and health and internationalization really entered the lives of ordinary people. spent a ridiculous amount of money, but really worth it imo.
the Beijing drummers will always be my favourite, so much amazing emotion and energy created
Yes very true
That was amazing
@Caesar pathetic - got nothing better to do than trolling in the Olympics channel?
Yes
Built buy slaves. Used slaves. Horrible nasty country. No....
Beijing 2008, I was a little lad then. We could see the huge firework footprints from our window. That moment still gives me goosebumps till this day.
Yes, all the performers beating the drum in a synchronizing way was the best ever.
Beijing 2008 remains the best opening ceremony
everything from the firework footprints to the drummers and the scroll painting, that ceremony was a beautiful, moving tribute to Chinese history and culture
Hey Kim Jong Un, ever thought of hosting an olympics game in Pyongyang? I will come for sure ;)
Still waiting for Pyongyang Summer Olympic...
Didn't the footprint fireworks turn out to be CGI and therefore fake?
@@peterbrown4828 For the most part, but the final footprint fireworks by the stadium were real. And still, the CGI still made it look really cool.
Beijing one really showed their culture and their loving for peace. love that
Love for peace? Tell that to Taiwan or the Uighurs
@@HowIsItMadeEN I believe they are aware cause they are Chinese.🤗
I think Beijing's 2008 Opening was way ahead of its time. There's simply no other openings that can surpass it, not even its own when it hosts the Winter Olympics in 2022.
Athens 2004 also had certain technical elements that audiences may not directly see but were also way ahead of its time such as draining gallons of water in a mere 2 minutes to a dry surface and the laser water screen that projected a spinning dna double helix.
Athens olympic games was a starting point
All the others based on this pattern
2012 is the best in my opinion
London was better.
All > Paris
Athens, because it was a once in a lifetime moment. It was an honor to see the Olympics return home for the first time in decades.
Yes, they desperately want to host it in more than a century, and they finally was awarded the games. The Olympics are back where it originally from.
Beijing 2008 opening ceremony will always have a special place in my mind for the best opening ceremony.
I still think nothing so far can top Beijing Olympics in 2008! That drum performance, torch relay and whole Chinese culture just fascinating!
Athens 2004🤩
Nothing will beat the Beijing Opening ceremonies, that was a spectacle
As you said soectacular, a show but lacks of meaning
It is, that is the best and the highlights of the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Athens 2004 always my favorite. I watched it from Opening to the Closing. I was very impressed & in awe. Especially to have witnessed the Olympics at a conscious age- 16 at time. Before then, I'd only heard of the Atlanta Games & glanced the Sydney Opening Ceremony. Beijing was impressive as well, in my top 3.
Athens 2004 was such an emotional opening. It was more than a spectacle. It deeply moved me.
Honestly, the most incredible part of London 2012 was the massive display of their history they pulled off with some of the most badass music I've ever heard.
And in the same city, 1948... it was the Scouts who led the way. Nobody could be more fitting for a new, international era. Youth who hadn't fought the last war, all part of an global organisation focused around cooperation and self-improvement.
The drummers countdown of Beijing 2008 is the best moment of all time.
@ not again !!?
The Arrow on Fire!🔥
Requires the Skill and brings that ancient vibe.
Think the torch was lit automatically. The arrow was just for theatre
Also, scary
@@mercury6765 It actually lit the torch, but didn't land inside it
@@drammaman No it didn't.
@@mercury6765 You have to be somewhat a marksman with a bow to do that. Rebollo flung the arrow on a perfect line with the cauldron, which had gas lines in it to help ignite the flame once it flew past.
If the arrow was too high or low, it would have missed the gas line.
Beijing 2008 was the best of the best and greatest ever opening ceremony in Olympic history
Sydney 2000 for me with Berlin 1934 a close close second.
Beijing's opening ceremony has yet to be surpassed.
It's unbelievable that the official account doesn't even play the most marvellous moment of Beijing's ceremony. I want to watch the Five rings and countdown moments!
I loved the countdown from Beijing 2008
I loved the Beijing Olympics the most it was sooo coooool😎
I agree with you👍
@@chicsn9818 yeah I know BTW are you from China?
@@angkitaghosh8082 yes！
agree，too
Without a doubt
Beijing set the bar high for being the best olympic opening ceremony
Beijing was amazing, but Athens was beautiful from start to finish! For me the 3 best:
1. Athens 2004
2. Beijing 2008
3. London 2012
i think most ppl would agree that these three are the top three, though it's hard to determine which one is first, second or third!
Beijing 2008 is still the best Olympic opening ceremony by far.
Don’t forget Sochi 2014
Definitely!
2021年のオリンピックは、日本人男性を軽蔑しました。
アジア人に対する人種差別についての真実。covid19 の起源によるものではありません。
マスコミはそれを非論理的にするために、本当の動機を誤って伝えました。
左端と右端の過激派は、アジア人、主に日本人を「男性に対する裏切り者」と見なしているためだと言います。
これは、L G T B I Q +に支援された女性グループが辞任を要求した直後に始まりました。森義 郎 か ら。
ニュースは世界中に広まり、すべてのアジア人に対する人種差別は、彼らが今彼らを考慮しているために起こりました：ミサンドリコス。そしてによって。「男性に対する裏切り者」。
オリンピックを運営する従順で扱いやすい指導者たちも 森 喜朗 に辞任を求めたが、それは重大な過ちだった。彼らはヘンブリズムへの支持を示したからです。
開会式にはフェミニストのスピーチも含まれています。 Y.劣った男性を正常化する表現。
この式典は、アジア人に対する人種差別を悪化させただけです。
日本人はそれらの主催者を制裁すべきです。 Y.オリンピックの代表的なリーダー全員に。
そうして初めて、彼らは日本にまだ本物の男性がいることを示すでしょう。
現在、日本とアジア人の名誉は屈辱を与えられています。
2021年のオリンピックは、日本人男性を軽蔑しました。
日本には不平等があります。に対して。すべての真の男性の。
日本の制度はまた、男性よりも女性をサポートしすぎています。数十年前。
オリンピックの国際機関は、この屈辱に対して多くの責任を負っています。に対して。日本人から。そして。に対して。すべての男性の中で、一般的に。
森喜 朗 への私の全面的なサポート 💪、そして世界は 森喜 朗 をサポートしています💪。
私は私のような多くの女性を知っています。
この式典は史上最悪だと私たちは考えています。
そのミサンドリーコンテンツのために。
Beijing was dope. That's gave me chills
That Archery shot thou
He actually missed, it went past about 50 metres. But he was never meant to hit it either.
Fabulous.
Nothing can top this. Unless it's another more difficult archery shot.
Barcelona 1992 definitely had the best cauldron lighting
not only because of the epic bow and arrow shot, but also they got a Paralympian to do it too! Antonio remains the only Paralympian to light the Olympic cauldron. He deserved an honorary Olympic medal for that incredible feat, on top of his Paralympic medals
Yes, a lot of people mentioned that, of all the lighting the Olympic flame into the cauldron is the best ever.
It's unbelievable that the official account doesn't even play the most marvellous moment of Beijing's ceremony. I really want to watch the Five rings and the countdown moments!
Yea and they even used Beijing ceremony’s in their thumbnail 😂
Beijing Olympics is the worst, CCP paid troll
@@milhouse14 don't with your country will also win, work hard 😊
@@milhouse14 lol stay salty sis
The other CCP paid trolls have arrived
Beijing one was breathtaking!
How could this video be made without London 2012s industrial revolution part? That was the most phenomenal part of any opening ceremony so far.
Yup. The Pandemonium segment. London 2012 was hands down the best opening ceremony for me.
Nobody could beat Beijing 2008 one. The country freak me out. They hold the events regardless of the cost. London felt huge pressure. Admittedly, it was amazing.
CCP paid troll
Amen 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻
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In my opinion Athens 2004 had the best opening ceremony.
I agree with you slightly, I felt that Beijing 2008 the following Olympics after Athens 2004 is the best.
Beijing's opening ceremony has yet to be surpassed.
actually, the Beijing ceremony just came to pass but I'm sure that you are too blind to see that.
Incredible Synchronization 👏👏👏
And the virus it produces also need to be surpassed
Is the CCP holding your family at gunpoint?
@@vineeth9295 it already has by Delta from India.
When the Chinese musicians played the fou with the lit sticks… that shot was the absolute best!
'The Queen' jumping out of a helicopter with Daniel Craig has to be the best moment.
Beijing was by far the most impressive ever !
The most spectacular olympic ceremony for me is from 2008 Olympics no doubt.
So beautiful! Love Olympics and it’s tradition! 🇬🇷 💜
Beijing 2008 was by far the best Opening ceremony ever .
I agree, with the beating of the drum by the performers.
It’s amazing what can be achieved by an authoritarian government and an absence of labor laws
😂😂😂
Bruh it went on too long 😭
1:41 her cheeky smile always gets me, she is missed
Sochi 2014 opening as the closing ceremony’s were the best ever ❤
I have a goosebump during the archer in Barcelona '92.
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé song Barcelona 👍👏👑
The best opening ceremony is Beijing Olympics 2008
No, CCP paid troll
No ccp
Yes, the best by quite some margin. The printing press performance was mind blowing.
Seoul 1988 skydivers and Beijing 2008 drummers was so satisfying to watch😍. Can’t wait to see Tokyo 2020/2021 opening ceremony ✌🏻🇯🇵🎌
1988 Seoul TaeKundoe show
I'm so excited for tomorrow's Olympic opening in Tokyo. Love from Philippines 🇵🇭
@FILIPINI NURSE IN SAUDI ARABIA anong oras po
@Ramming Speed hail satin 🔥🔥😝😈😈
Beijing 2008, the best of the best.
Greece and Chine was my favorites
London 1948 and Tokyo 1964 very touching
Beijing was the best in the Opening ceremony as well as the closing ceremony... It gave us Indians hope that we can win more than a single MEDAL in the Games. And wow, an Individual Gold Medal for India as well. Beijing was the start and best ever performance by India in the Games. Hopefully we can surpass it by winning atleast 2 Gold Medals and reach double digits in total....
@Dance With Rupa he is agent of CCP
@Dance With Rupa Chinese Communist Party
@Dance With Rupa it's not related at all. who said it's related 😂😂😂
@Dance With Rupa maybe you are quite poor in English. But that's okay. Being poor in English does not really matter much to be honest.
Now coming back to the point, did I use the word "because"?
I don't know what you understood. But I just stated the facts. I hope a fake troll account like you doesn't take this as an insult. Cheers!
@@daxil44 such a pathetic display from your Bangladesi Olympics team all the time. I hope you are thrashed once again in the Olympics, before you compare yourself with India. 😂😂😂
Without a doubt and miles ahead the Chinese Olympics in 2008 was the greatest 🙌
OK, CCP paid troll
@@milhouse14 replying negatively to every compliment ain’t getting you anywhere eh😅
@@subszonet Found another CCP paid troll
@@subszonet lol
To be honest, even after nearly 15 years, the Beijing Olympic Games is still the best.
Beijing 2008 es magnífica
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics gives me goosebumps !!
In a matter of 20 years a nation stood so tall that it even conducted the world's largest sporting event.
Massively inspiring
Not as impressive as a nation that managed it just 3 years after WW2 ended whilst in the middle of rebuilding and rationing!
London olympics 2012 was a landmark as the Queen 👑 Elizabeth 2nd was a part of opening ceremony
The Beijing one was so amazing tho
The opening ceremony in 2008 must be one of the best in history. Those who attack it without hesitation are exposing your ignorance. What you don't know is how much time and energy it takes to rehearse such a shocking performance, as well as the national connotation expressed by the performance. I think the shock and sense of identity of this kind of art are the same for all mankind. I'm talking about people.
The human printing press performance was mind blowing.
I would say the olympic openings and closings from 2000 up until 2008 I would say are mind-blowing. After the 2000s, pretty much it's been less spectacular as I got older. However, with the paris olympics occuring nearly 100 years after it was once hosted in 1924, considering two of the greatest athletics in track and field at that time which inspired the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, that has to be something special and a honor for paris, france to host it again on the same year as it occurred back in 1924.
Beijing still the best for me!
The Beijing ceremony was in a league of its own.
Still is.
@@silveriver9 No it isn't. London 2012 was better.
@@colejones6312 Wrong. London's one was a snore and already forgotten.
@@silveriver9 not by everyone , I can't remember Beijing one at all bt I do recall the London one
@@danielsmith7383 Surveys have shown that London's paled in comparison to Beijing's. The UK also admitted it and said they won't try and beat Beijing as they raised the bar so high.
Beijing drummers is definitely the best
Agree
Said ccp paid troll. You dont fool anyone! get of the internet.
@@MoBahar687 ?
@@Budonkya Maybe you are genuine but a lot of bots and trolls from the ccp comment favourable things about china's gov etc. Sorry
@@MoBahar687 nah im from USA i just thought it was crazy seeing thousands of drummers in perfect sync
ΑΤHENS 2004! Olympic Games, welcome back!
Beijing 2008 is the best olympic opening ceremony !
Athens Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
-----Tranquillity Elegance
Beijing
-----Grand and substantial
London
-----Rock band concert
Rio
-----Passionate and exuberant
Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony
----.......
In my opinion: The "Queen" skydiving is still the most original and Muhammad Ali lighting the fire is still the most moving moment for me.
Otherwise I can't help thinking of the incredible amounts of money going into these bombastic shows ...
By comparison with the average Hollywood action movie, the money spent on these ceremonies (typical worldwide audience approximately a billion) is peanuts
Beijing 2008 is the best Opening Ceremony ever🤍
Athenss
In my opinion...
In my opinion, the most spectacular Olympic opening ceremony in history was Athens 2004, it was like seeing the most colossal theater production in the world on a journey from the beginnings of Hellenic mythology and the wonderful culture of the Aegean to the present day. It will hardly be surpassed, considering that the IOC wants to scale down the Olympians to avoid animosity towards the event. Regarding the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, I think the most iconic was Barcelona 1992, however I consider that the most spectacular due to the scale of production and effects was Sydney 2000.
Was an opening very Beautiful and elegant I love it too
Beijing was better in my view
@@jayantjha3128 It is your opinion and it is completely acceptable. The opinions that are expressed in this space are totally subjective, which means that nobody has the absolute truth. I have read consultations on many websites that classify the Athens 2004 opening ceremony as the most beautiful in history, others think that Beijing 2008, others consider that it was Barcelona 1992. In each case, a show concept conceived with an ambition different.
Beijing 2008 was apotheosis and extravagant on all sides, revealing the Chinese sentiment towards the western world of the bigger, taller and more massive the better. A multimillion-dollar show with masterful mass choreography conceived to leave everyone with their mouths open and to make China's ambition as an economic power very clear. I think nobody disputes that.
I totally agree!
No it's boring
#1: The entire Beijing opening ceremony
I am so excited to watch Olympics tomorrow. Love from 🇮🇳 India 🙏
The queen, the archer and the synchronization of drummers are prolly the best
Beijing 2008 the best Olympic opening ceremony ever
Now I can see the inspiration for Asian Games 2018 opening in Indonesia.
1. President enter the stadium doing Motorcycle stunt : clear inspired from the queen and bond.
2. Thousand Dancer : inspired from Beijing Drummer.
Harmony of those Chinese drummers , omg.
@@niveshlamba7919imagine being so synchronised just to get called ‘robot’ by a nobody
@@jusho9 to get praise from all over the world🤗 Nobody cares about what you nobody think
@@jensonfulton270 did u reply to the wrong person or are u dumb
Beijing was #1 I wish they would allow South Africa to do World Cup the Africans and Asians are the best when it comes to artistic music and drums
Number one for me was the London 2012 'industrial Revolution' part and the forming of the Olympic Rings,it was just incredible!
I did not expect this video to make me cry lol, there's something so wholesome about the Olympics
Its a Dream to Attend the Next to Next Olympics🙌.
I will be there for sure
you live in LA
@@roopeshverma9719 no, I am from India
@@kevinpatel2996 will it be in India??
Is will be in Paris!
@@saraelmi875 no
Archery shot is still the best for me! Omg that was a quite a show!!!
Gisele Bundchen parading and the 14 Bis flying at Rio 2016
That's one of the simplest yet memorable scene.
Yeah, it was so stupid!
Horrible ceremony for me, the worst in Olympic history: Rio 2016
@@MarcoGonzalez-gq1zd tu país nunca tuvo olimpiadas, callate
Beijing 2008 would still the best even after Tokyo 2020
Beijing 2008 established the ceiling, and Tokyo 2020 established the floor
Beijing was by far the best
You spelt London wrong.
tears welling up in awe. loved that paralympic archer.
Best of luck everyone
Love from INDIA🇮🇳❤️
Beijing 2008 is the the costliest summer olympics till date with an estimated spending of $45 billion🔥🔥🔥
and it literally reshaped the city and the people. the entire city has become cleaner, more organized, cultural but modern as ever, and sports and health and internationalization really entered the lives of ordinary people. spent a ridiculous amount of money, but really worth it imo.
I don’t remember the Queen's cameo during the Beijing 2008 drumming sequence!
The drones were amazing!
Moscow 1980, the Misha Bear human panel had to be on the TOP 10. Love the #4 1992 paralympic archer was also outstanding. Amazing moments! Thank you.
My fav. Is the Barcelona 1992 Opening with the Archery. Unforgettable...n I don't care if he had missed...
Nothing ever surpasses the Beijing one
The queen has done everything in her life 😂😂
Barcelona 92 - 🔥 with arrow is awesome, and Beijing 2008 drummers one
Beijing should have been number oneee
#1 Beijing Olympics
Barcelona and Beijing were iconic
London 2012 had the best opening ceremony so far.
Super excited for Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 . Love from India .
Beijing 2008 for sure the No 1
Beijing 2008 is hard to beat
Beijing 2008 still the best
Tokyo 2020 grand welcome
If there are lots of anime and video game reference. It can make it to top 10 at least.
Games starting time tel me
2008 Beijing's set the bar...
I think Barcelona and Athens set the bar before being the first to include that deal fo technology and art.
London Olympics 2012 was a banchmark in modern Olympics history
I loved Seoul 1988 and Pyeongchang 2018
Can't wait to see Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. 😍❤️
Tokyo Olympic opening is ICONIC!!
Those images give me goosebumps.
This is overwhelming... Olympics, the greatest.
Just one word: Spectacular!
Did anyone cried watching this?