The performance features more than 3,000 singers and dancers, and was launched with a dramatic flypast by a disabled former British soldier piloting a light plane. Angus Crawford reports from the Olympic Stadium.

开幕式上有3000多名歌手和舞蹈演员表演节目，英国一名伤残老兵还驾驶一架轻型飞机进行了精彩的空中表演。安格斯·克劳福德在奥运场馆报道。