Modest evening

Athletes from the United States were among the roughly 10,500 athletes in the parade of nations during the Opening Ceremony.

Modest evening

Bill and Julien Howells from the United States donned the red, white and blue before Friday night's Opening Ceremony.

Opening ceremonies at the London Olympics

LONDON - As he considered Beijing's extravagant coming-out party to the world four years ago, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle felt more liberated than daunted by that Olympics Opening Ceremony as he set about putting together the Summer Olympics encore that was unveiled Friday night.

USOC coy on whether ritual of not lowering flag will change today

LONDON - Whether they are rooted in arrogance or self-respect, whether they are more a reflection of mythology or reality, the words and gesture apparently hatched at the Opening Ceremony for the 1908 London Olympics will hover, too, over the extravaganza tonight to uncork the 2012 London Games: