Every Winter Olympian‘s bio during this opening ceremony is “The child of diplomats, he learned short track skating during his parents UN posting in Geneva. He switched to luge after excelling on the internal JP Morgan track during his internship.” #openingceremomy #winterolympics
Have they just repurposed "Vamos ala playa" into "Milano E Cortina"?
I'm all for recycling but this is ridiculous. #OpeningCeremomy #WinterOlympics
Did that truck break down? #Paralymics #OpeningCeremomy
Panama wearing hats, natch. #openingceremomy
Malaysia - great hats. #openingceremomy
Usain Bolt impression ticked off the bingo card - didn’t expect a Japanese competitor to do it though! #openingceremomy
Iraq should get a medal for the balloon hats too. #openingceremomy
French paralympians have matching handbags. Of course. #openingceremomy
Was Pulp really a good choice of music? “You’ll never live like common people…” #openingceremomy
Belgian athlete with his support dog should get a medal just for that. #openingceremomy
Advert breaks? Oh dear Channel 4. This won’t do. #proudofthebbc #openingceremomy
Nice to see the National Anthem in British Sign Language too. And I now know the BSL for ‘queen’. #openingceremomy
Ug. Paul McCartney. Awful. Get him a lozenge for god's sake. #OpeningCeremomy
#swaziland? Now they're making up countries. #OpeningCeremomy
That was an awesome ceremony. But it’s almost 1am now so time for sleep… #openingceremomy