Although I am not interested in the games themselves I was looking forward to the opening ceremony, so I sat down to watch at the advertised time of 2-000pm.
But of course the BBC had to have the obligatory settee perched on which were three athletes, these three were interviewed with much merriment and the usual flashbacks of archive footage of their successes.This took up the first 30 minutes.
Was this at all necessary? I don't know how much these three were paid plus the interviewer, but a total waste of licence fee payers cash, I would have thought.
Regarding the ceremony that India put on, it was absolutely amazing and a real credit to them, after all the bad press they had beforehand. If we can match this come the Olympic Games, we should be more than happy.