Organisers of “London 2012” today announced the full schedule for the opening and closing ceremonies of the XXX
Olympiad. Details of the ceremony have been kept under wraps until now, partly due to security concerns, and mainly
due to the fact that no-one knew what the darned heck was going on.
Now, the new itinerary has been unveiled, incorporating the suggestions of the public as part of a desire that
these will indeed be the “People’s Games”.
“Today’s listing of events has its share of surprises,” gurned artistic director Danny Boyle at a
packed press conference yesterday, today and indeed tomorrow, “but I think I can guarantee there’ll be something for everyone.”
The list of events in full
12 NOON
Rupert Murdoch will carry the famed Olympic torch into the stadium seated in a golden chair carried by Prime Minister Cameron, Deputy
Prime Minister Clegg, Labour’s Ed or Dave Miliband and the chair of the PCC.
Pippa Middleton’s friend Marcy de Soultrait will launch the opening ceremony by shooting a flaming
crossbow into a hydrogen balloon containing the cream of the world’s paparazzi. The resultant fireball will
collapse onto the Olympic Torch and light up the grey, cloudy, polluted sky.
2 PM
To symbolise the “togetherness” ethos of the Olympics, and to put the “XXX” into the 30th Olympiad, Simon Cowell and Boris Johnson
will jointly and in unison “bonk” a young lady from each of the participating nations atop a gigantic levitating waterbed, to a booming Luther
Vandross soundtrack.
The Games are all about people of all faiths putting their differences aside, coming together as one and condemning atheism, so leaders of the
main religions will unite, form an orderly semi-circle and stone theologian Richard Dawkins to death.
4 PM
Each of the leading sponsors of the Games will perch on elevated platforms, training their high-velocity rifles on anyone who is in breach of
the strict regulations about bearing the logo of anyone not sponsoring the event.
Athletes from every participating country will enter the stadium as one, wearing identical chivvy shell-suits and waving the little flags
of whichever country has bid the most moolah for them. The North and South Koreans will be separated by China, the British and
Argentineans by Sean Penn and the Middle Eastern countries will refuse to recognise Israel, marching blithely across their heads.
6 PM
In a half-arsed attempt to relive the defining moment in Trainspotting Danny Boyle has decreed that for the opening ceremony
sprinters will be allowed to take as many drugs as they can ingest then run erratically towards the finishing line.
An Olympic-sized swimming pool filled with crisp fifty pound notes will be set aflame and
members of the IoC coerced into trying to jump across it – lengthways.
8 PM
Bailiffs will begin the tricky process of repossessing the entire stadia, towing it towards a vast Essex pound, but luckily the Chinese will arrive
on the scene just in time to bail us out – again.
The opening ceremony (and indeed Games) will close with the most spectacular fireworks display in history, courtesy of our good
friends at Al Qaeda alongside some SAMs which will be launched from the roof of the flats next door. You know – the ones with a big
10 PM
A fleet of ambulances will leave the smoking ruins of the stadium carrying the corpses of the participants.*
*Probably.
