Birmingham 2022: Commonwealth Video games Opening Ceremony
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All the color and motion of the Commonwealth Video games Opening Ceremony at Alexander Stadium.
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Fireworks explode over the stadium through the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Video games.Credit score:AP
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The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Video games passed off on the 30,000-capacity Alexander Stadium.Credit score:AP
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Prince Charles drove himself and spouse Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, in an Aston Martin into Birmingham’s Alexander Park in a convoy of 72 traditional British-made vehicles. Credit score:AP
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The Commonwealth Video games flag is carried previous the athletes.Credit score:AP
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Australia is represented by its largest crew at an abroad Commonwealth Video games – and the second largest crew ever – as one in all 72 nations collaborating within the occasion.Credit score:Getty
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The Australian crew of greater than 430 athletes contains a report 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander athletes and 75 para-athletes.Credit score:Getty
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The crew is once more hoping to prime the medal desk after successful 80 gold medals and making 198 journeys to the rostrum on residence soil 4 years in the past.Credit score:Getty
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Flag bearers Eddie Ockenden and Rachael Grinham lead the crew for the ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Crew Australia enter Alexander Stadium.Credit score:AP
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A large 10m tall mechanical ‘Raging Bull’ was a spotlight of the ceremony.Credit score:AP
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The mechanical bull settled in the course of the stadium.Credit score:Getty
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The bull was tamed by a performer.Credit score:Getty
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The bull, which took 5 months to construct, sheds armour to symbolise the Birmingham strikes of 1910 when the chain makers went on strike for higher circumstances.Credit score:AP
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Dancers carry out through the ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Performers participate in ceremony.Credit score:AP
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A performer performs inside a sizzling air balloon.Credit score:Getty
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Ginny Lemon received a starring position in a lemon-shaped sizzling air balloon.Credit score:AP
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Dancers carry out through the ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Performers carry massive musical devices.Credit score:AP
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Performers carry massive musical devices.Credit score:Getty
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Performers on a float through the ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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The Birmingham Royal Ballet and dance group Crucial Mass carry to life a dance that signifies the restoration of Birmingham’s library and its canals. Credit score:AP
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The Birmingham Royal Ballet and dance group Crucial Mass carry to life a dance that signifies the restoration of Birmingham’s library and its canals. Credit score:Getty
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The Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai – adopted by Birmingham after being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan as a young person – delivered a robust speech urging groups from all international locations and territories to hitch the folks of Birmingham to have a good time friendship throughout borders.Credit score:AP
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Opera singer Samantha Oxborough sings the nationwide anthem – on a Land Rover.Credit score:AP
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Prince Charles drove himself and spouse Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, into Birmingham’s Alexander Park in his 1969 Aston Martin DV 6 sequence II Volante – a gift from the Queen on his twenty first birthday.Credit score:Getty
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The Aston Martin joined a convoy of 72 traditional crimson, white and blue British-made vehicles which when parked ended up forming a Union Jack.Credit score:Getty
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A convoy of 72 traditional crimson, white and blue British-made vehicles which when parked ended up forming a Union Jack.Credit score:Getty
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A photograph taken utilizing a drone of the vehicles that fashioned a Union Jack.Credit score:Getty
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The RAF Pink Arrows carry out a flypast.Credit score:Getty
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A performer performs on a motorbike.Credit score:Getty
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Performers carry out on bikes through the Opening Ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Forged members carry out through the Commonwealth Video games Opening Ceremony.Credit score:AP
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A puppet is seen through the Opening Ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Performers participate within the Opening Ceremony.Credit score:AP
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A large puppet depicting Edwin Elgar.Credit score:AP
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Performers participate within the Opening Ceremony.Credit score:AP
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Forged members carry out through the Opening CeremonyCredit score:AP
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A drummer performs through the Opening Ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Spectators on the ceremony.Credit score:AP
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Dancers carry out through the Opening Ceremony.Credit score:Getty
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Dancers carry out through the Commonwealth Video games.Credit score:AP
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Mascot entertains the group. Credit score:Getty
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Spectators put on Australia flags as they enter the stadium.Credit score:Getty
