The 2016 Olympic Summer Games got underway Friday night in Rio de Janeiro in a festive opening ceremony filled with the traditions of the host country, a message of environmentalism and a call for unity.
The festivities got off to somewhat of a rocky start with protesters
confronting police in the area, but the show featured pageantry from the
host country and around the globe. The ceremony also included the first
refugee team in history, which organizers called a "message of hope."
The opening ceremony featured three key themes: reinvent, rejoice and
replant. The event opened with several projected images of water and
moved into significant events in Brazilian history, including a
presentation of the "beginning of life," the "birth of the forest" and a
tribute to the indigenous people who occupied Brazil in the past and
present, according to the BBC. Acrobats then mimicked the movement of
ships to symbolize when Europeans arrived to the continent in the 1500s.
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