2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony Daniel Craig

2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony Daniel Craig, Following a cordial invitation from Queen Elizabeth II, Daniel Craig and acclaimed director Danny Boyle got special access to Buckingham Palace this week. In the Queen’s private quarters, they are said to have shot scenes for a short film, known as The Arrival, which will open the 2012 London Summer Games.

Her Majesty will give special orders to James Bond, played by Craig, who will then parachute into the Olympic stadium on film, via helicopter. This is just about the coolest premise for an opening ceremony ever, so why stop there? Here are the top 5 ways Bond could make the Olympics even more epic. Just imagine:

1. There’s a new Bond competition at the 2012 Summer Games. The objective is to deactivate a 20 megaton nuclear bomb while simultaneously slotting terrorists and freeing Olympic-athlete hostages in the process. At the starting line in matching tuxedos: Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig.

2. Starting with the bang of his golden gun, the famous MI6 agent defeats Usain Bolt in the 100-metre sprint by using jet-powered track shoes supplied to him by Agent Q.
3. After an Aston Martin DB5 roars through the Stratford stadium, weaving through people and eventually skidding to a stop, an unshaken 007 emerges, gripping the ever-burning Olympic torch and sipping a martini that hasn’t been stirred.

4. Bond sneaks up behind the Queen during the opening ceremony and scares The Living Daylights out of her.

5. As a tribute to the classic Olympic-themed film Chariots of Fire, Bond does all of the above in slow motion.

2012 Summer Olympics

2012 Summer Olympics, Michelle Obama will lead the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, the White House said Tuesday.

It has become a tradition for first ladies to lead the U.S. delegation. Laura Bush headed the delegation to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, and Hillary Rodham Clinton led the delegation at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

In advance of the upcoming summer games, Mrs. Obama hosted a mini-Olympic competition with physical activities for D.C.-area children at American University on Tuesday. The competition is part of her Let’s Move! initiative to promote fitness and healthy eating.

Olympians and Paralympians including Kortney Clemons, Dominique Dawes, April Holmes, Lisa Leslie, Lori Ann Lindsey, Dan O’Brien, Becky Sauerbrunn and David Wagner led the children in competitions that included basketball, soccer, tennis and relay races.

The fifth-graders were from MacFarland Middle School in Washington, Manor View Elementary School in Maryland and Arlington Science Focus School in Virginia.

Mrs. Obama was joined by Britain’s first lady, Samantha Cameron, who is accompanying her husband, British Prime Minister David Cameron, on an official two-day, visit to the U.S. The first lady and President Barack Obama will host the Camerons at the White House for a state dinner on Wednesday.

The two first ladies stopped by about halfway through the students’ hour-long workout. They mostly observed, but Mrs. Obama briefly hit tennis balls with the kids before making a few remarks.

She told the children she was thrilled about leading the U.S. delegation in London.