Olympic opening ceremony will recreate countryside with real animals

Director Danny Boyle reveals plans for London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, including village cricket, maypoles and rainA village cricket team, 12 horses, 10 chickens, 70 sheep, a model of Glastonbury Tor, two mosh pits and the largest harmonically tuned bell in the world are among the sights that will greet the world when the curtain comes up on the London Olympics, it has been revealed.The surreal vista of a "green and pleasant land", with giant maypoles representing the symbols of the four n...

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