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Three thoughts on the Rio Olympics opening ceremony: 1. The creative team for Rio’s opening ceremony set a goal of changing the paradigm from previous Olympic ceremonies—specifically, scaling ...

After months of planning, hundreds of headlines and years of training for the world’s top athletes, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are finally here. Friday’s opening ceremony was a flamboyant ...

The Opening Ceremony for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics will take place Friday, Aug. 5 in Rio's Maracanã Stadium. It will air on NBC at 7:30 p.m. ET on a one-hour tape delay.

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro — Brazilians pride themselves on “gambiarra” — the talent for making something out of almost nothing. That sort of shoestring ingenuity has become a necessity ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Yoo Soon-taek, are photographed before the Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) 19 / 19 ...

Olympics opening ceremonies have been spectacles for reasons good and bad. Here's how athletes, organizers and viewers can best enjoy what the Rio Games will have to offer. The opening ceremony in ...

Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics: TV Review. Director Fernando Mereilles and his team delivered a sobering call to address global warming and deforestation cloaked in a stirring multicultural ...

Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro provides the official start to 16 days of competition that will see the world's best athletes competing for the gold. Athletes from 206 ...

The 2016 Rio Olympics kicked off on Friday, August 5, with performances, bright lights and plenty of national spirit — follow along with Us Weekly as we live-blog the opening ceremony ...

The 2016 Rio Olympics are almost upon us, and Brazil's capital will officially open its doors on Friday evening for the opening ceremony of this summer's blockbuster event.

After months of planning, hundreds of headlines and years of training for the world’s top athletes, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are finally here. Friday’s opening ceremony was a flamboyant ...