Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Top memorable moments
The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics featured 60,000 fans, 207 teams, one supermodel and countless memorable moments on Friday night. On an evening filled with music, dance, flags raised high and tides rising higher (more on that in a moment), here are 12 of the most memorable moments of the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremonies from Maracana Stadium. https://youtu.be/O5oeXJ5vF7k watch this video Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Top memorable moments. Please note that your humble reporter was inside the stadium for this, and thus there may be some things listed that didn’t make the NBC broadcast back in the U.S. Our program began with the stage filled with silver-clad performers waving these weather balloon-type things in sync. They slowly inflated into cushions filled with air, which they then repurposed into drums. Even if they looked like those steaming hot foil pillows filled with delicious Jiffy-Pop popcorn, the popcorn you make in a jiffy. No Opening Ceremony is complete wi...