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The wand in the online posts resembles Lord Voldemort's wand. The Olympics website described the scene as children in hospital beds being overrun by literary villains. Then a group of "flying nannies," which represented Mary Poppins, came in to make "the nightmarish characters" disappear. Fact check: movie did not predict the 'Omicron Variant'. The ceremony also included Queen Elizabeth II "parachuting" from a helicopter into the stadium with fictional secret agent James Bond and comedy character Mr.

Bean performing with the London Symphony Orchestra. Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter first came to life for moviegoers 20 years ago with the big screen release of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Longtime fans and new generations of Potterheads can feel the magic at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood, especially during the holiday season.

Harry Potter stars 20 years later. High school sports feel impact of omicron surge. How a nice-guy South Dakota senator fell into a Trump storm. Click to expand. Replay Video. The athlete delegations in the traditional parade of nations are also expected to be noticeably smaller, due to COVID, as many athletes still have yet to arrive.

Organizers have asked that athletes arrive no earlier than five days before their first day of competition, largely to avoid overcrowding in the Olympic Village.

An Olympic opening ceremony unlike any other. Those are not spectators in the seats. No, just multi-colored seats designed to make it look that way. The decision to hold the Games amid a pandemic, with coronavirus cases reaching their highest totals since January, has been unpopular among the Japanese populace.

According to the Washington Post, protesters shut down one of the busiest roads in Tokyo on their way to the vicinity of the opening ceremony Tokyo. Protesters in Tokyo marching toward the opening ceremony to oppose the Olympics. Olympic protesters have shut down one of the busiest roads in Tokyo, in Harajuku. Police are clearing the road for them and yelling into megaphones asking passersby to make way for protesters pic.

Our Christine Brennan writes : "By not getting vaccinated, they have shown themselves to be terrible teammates, potentially endangering their fellow athletes because they are at greater risk of contracting COVID and potentially knocking themselves and others out of their events through contact tracing protocols.

Bird had a few close friends to go to after she was selected as one of the U. Longtime Seattle Storm teammate Lauren Jackson, who had carried the flag for her native Australia in the , texted to say congratulations. Hours before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games here, Bird looked forward to the ceremony with excitement. With coronavirus countermeasures in place, the ceremony will go off without fans and with only a few hundred VIPs.

Read more about the selection of Bird and Alvarez. Jesse Smith, a five-time Olympian for the U. The water polo team was allotted 12 spots for its player roster, leaving Smith to watch the festivities from the Olympic Village because he was not one of the 12 active players declared for the team's opening game Sunday against Japan.

Oddly enough, Smith, 38, had been nominated to be the U. Later, he addressed the matter at a team press conference hours before the Ceremony was set to begin.

The USOPC provided the rough number of , though it's unclear who will be there and what the exact number of participants will ultimately be. The men's and women's basketball teams are expected to march. The gymnasts and most if not all of the U. Don't count on seeing any track and field athletes on hand, either; The vast majority of them will not arrive in Tokyo until later this weekend, or early next week.

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Click to expand. Replay Video. Ad Microsoft. Full screen. Slideshow continues on the next slide. Performers make replicas of the 50 Olympic sports logos during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, Drones create a display over the stadium during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, The athletes are not allowed to compete under the Russian flag due to sanctions regarding a state-sanctioned doping scandal.

Fireworks explode above the stadium during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, People march in protest during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games on July 23, Fireworks explode above the stadium at the start of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, A performer runs on a treadmill during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, People sit in the empty stadium before the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, Country delegates sit in the seats during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, Michael Johnson carries the American flag while taking his victory lap after winning the meter final, setting a world record at at the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta.

Johnson won the and at the same games, the only person to complete the double. During the race Hamblin fell with D'Agostino close behind taking her down also, D'Agostino awkwardly twisting her leg.

Hamblin stopped to help D'Agostino up, one of the great moments in sportsmanship, and both finished the race, each allowed to compete in the final despite finishing outside the limit.

D'Agostino did not compete in the final because of her injuries. First, the legend of King Arthur stipulates that the top of the Tor provided entrance to Annwn, the ancient word for the Underworld. And all of this pandemonium was brought about by a handful of elite men who got thousands of workers apparently emerge from the underworld and build industrial England. The men in top hats coordinating the transformation can, therefore, be associated with the secretive groups that historically engendered a new economic, political and social system during the 18th Century.

All of this happens in the Olympic stadium, which is surrounded by giant triangles with illuminated capstones — a classic symbol representing an elite ruling above masses.

Odd choice. The sequence begins with children on hospital beds who get put to sleep by nurses. Then J. A child reading Peter Pan. On the page, we see a scary Captain Hook standing next to … a kid strapped to a bed? After J. Does this represent dissociation engendered by intense trauma? Luckily, a whole bunch of Mary Poppins fly down and shoo away the scary characters. Then, a rather creepy giant baby appears on stage. The odd combination of children in a hospital and fairy tales might have been a clever way to combine two important aspects of British culture.

It can also be a sick way of referring to Monarch mind control. Right before the Parade of Nations, the ceremony presented a dark segment that confused and disturbed more than a few viewers. Also, once again, we see an innocent child being preyed upon by dark forces. Despite the fact that the Christian hymn Abide With Me was playing in the background, the performance had an eerie feel, as if we were witnessing some kind of occult child sacrifice.

The set begins with a group of performers feverishly dancing under a giant orange ball resembling the sun orb. Then a young boy appears, looking somewhat lost and confused. One of the dancers approach the boy and looks to take something precious from him.

The dancer takes from the young boy an imaginary ball, which can represent his life force or maybe his soul. The boy attempts to take it back but it is no use, he cannot do it. Apparently drained and resigned, the boy embraces the dancer who stole his soul.

Each flag was then placed at the feet of the Tor and the magical oak tree. The show ended with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron which was composed of petals representing each nation present during the Olympics. Viewed from above, the Olympic Stadium resembled a gigantic eye whose pupil was being lit. Combined with the ever-present pyramidal structures around the Stadium, the event became one big tribute to the Illuminati elite.

Two weeks later, the closing ceremony took the Illuminati symbolism to another level. Contrary to the opening ceremony that reflected on the past, the closing ceremony looked towards the future … as envisioned by the elite. Not unlike the opening ceremony, it featured a whole lot of British music and I am pretty sure that record companies paid top dollar to have their artists perform on this unique world stage.

Contrarily to the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony was all about nations blending together into one giant global community — one of the goals of the New World Order. While, at the beginning of the games, athletes entered the stadium behind their national flag and a banner bearing the name of their countries, all of that was gone at the closing ceremony.