Commonwealth video games: Prince Charles drives Aston Martin in opening ceremony
The 2022 Commonwealth Video games start in Birmingham tonight with the opening ceremony on the redeveloped Alexander Stadium, which can play host to athletics when it begins subsequent week.
Simply over 10 years on from the memorable opening ceremony to the London Olympics, the artistic staff behind the present are anticipated to spotlight the expertise and variety of the West Midlands in a efficiency that shall be round three hours lengthy. At its coronary heart would be the Parade of Nations, as taking part athletes from nations throughout the Commonwealth stroll into the stadium beneath their flag. Diver Jack Laugher and weightlifter Emily Campbell have been chosen because the flag bearers for the host nation, England.
Greater than 5,000 athletes will compete throughout 20 completely different sports activities for 280 gold medals over the following 10 days. These Video games would be the first world multi-sport occasion to have extra ladies’s medals than males’s, and can see the most important built-in programme of para-sport but.
Comply with all the most recent updates from the Commonwealth Video games opening ceremony beneath.
Volunteers wearing Peaky Blinders garb
The bull is nice once more. Its armour is ripped off, displaying itself to be a beacon of goodness and lightweight. Woohoo!
Ah, right here we go – a Peaky Blinders reference as all of the volunteers (the game-makers if you’ll) are wearing flat caps as they enter the world. The athletes parade is about to get underway.
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Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:54
Ginny Lemon sings about waltzing barrow boys
Drag Race UK legend Ginny Lemon is in a hot-air balloon lemon sort factor, suspended above the stadium flooring.
Ginny ‘sings’ The Waltz of the Barrow Boys – a tune paying tribute to Birmingham’s countless innovation as a caravan of extraordinary vans enters the grotesque circus and parade their wares.
Every truck has been designed to showcase the unimaginable innovations of Birmingham, from Buttons to Pen Nibs to Police Whistles and Baskerville font.
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Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:51
Dance-off!
A dance-off happening now because the completely different factions are initially dancing collectively however then begin competing and solely find yourself damaging themselves and people round them.
Uh oh, they’ve made the large animatronic bull indignant now. Simply once they’d calmed him down as properly…
Fortunately these shards of starlight from earlier have been utilized by Stella and the ‘dreamers’ for a second of reconciliation and reflection. Phew, that was an in depth one…
Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:49
The commercial revolution
We’ve been having fun with a section paying tribute to Birmingham’s trade and saluting the important thing position they performed within the industrial revolution. Shades of the London 2012 opening ceremony to be trustworthy.
There’s now a large, rampaging mechanical bull inflicting havoc however Stella (head ‘dreamer’ in the event you bear in mind) exhibits the bull kindness and stops the chaos. It’s a message about everybody deserving love, regardless of the place they arrive from, I believe.
A high quality message, to be truthful.
Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:45
Some extra from Malala
Right here’s some extra of Malala’s stirring speech.
“Tonight groups from 72 nations and territories be a part of the folks of Birmingham to rejoice friendship throughout borders.
“The younger athletes who will compete over the following two weeks symbolize hundreds of thousands of women and boys throughout the commonwealth.
“Our shared hope for the long run, a future the place each baby can go to high school, the place ladies can totally take part in society, the place households can dwell in peace and in dignity.
“Over the following few weeks as we watch unimaginable athletes of the Commonwealth Video games bear in mind each baby deserves the prospect to succeed in her full potential and pursue her wildest goals.
“It’s now my honour to say, welcome to Birmingham!”
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Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:41
Prince Charles arrives in an Aston Martin
Right here’s video of Prince Charles arriving within the Aston Martin
Commonwealth video games: Prince Charles drives Aston Martin in opening ceremony
Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:39
Malala Yousafzai offers a speech
Malala Yousafzai – the Pakistani activist for feminine schooling and common human rights advocate – offers a speech in regards to the significance of schooling for youngsters.
She will get an enormous cheer from the gang, the most important of the night time, and the speech she delivers is understandably impassioned. One line is: “Each baby deserves a future. Each baby deserves the prospect to pursue her wildest goals.”
Malala is an adopted Brummie, as she was shot by the Taliban in 2012 in an assassination try for her activism and was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, the place medical doctors and nurses saved her life.
She accomplished her schooling in Birmingham as soon as she recovered earlier than going to Oxford College. An absolute inspiration
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Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:38
William Shakespeare
As talked about, William Shakespeare additionally obtained a point out – and a large puppet of him created – through the ceremony. There is just one publicly owned Shakespeare First Folio and it sits within the new Library of Birmingham – now the biggest public library within the UK.
Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:31
Samuel Johnson – compiler of the primary dictionary
I nonetheless suppose compiler of the primary dictionary, Dr Samuel Johnson, was completed soiled right here. Hardly probably the most flattering depiction of him – I’m certain he’d have had the proper phrase to explain it at the least…
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Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:29
The automobile flag and the historic figures
Right here’s the automobile flag they created and one of many depictions of a Birmingham-related historic determine, this one being Edward Elgar
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Luke Baker28 July 2022 20:27
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