How lovely

[friedgreentomato]

To see Stephen Lawrence mother carrying the olympic flag.

I salute you!

[ummmm]

It gave me goosbumps.

And Muhammad Ali. My mate has been body guarding him.

[gness]

:-) Very lovely. Quite a lady.

[friedgreentomato]

Yes ali looked a shadow of his former self must be difficult for a once active man

[brucie1996]

Agree so very sad to see to see Ali like this

[ummmm]

And didn't she look fantastic?

[friedgreentomato]

She did ummmm

[ummmm]

Fireworks to Pink Floyd - CLASS!!

[friedgreentomato]

And now Paul McCartney and hey Jude just class

[oldmaninshorts]

"Fireworks to Pink Floyd - CLASS!!"

Nothing unusual there to see... Move along

[Duncer]

I disagree - it was politicised claptrap. What happened to her was truly dreadful,and she has fought courageously, but she is not the only person to have a son/loved one murdered. Had her son been white and murdered in London would we even know who she was?

As for Hey Jude?

Blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah.

Utterly awful.

A very good ceremony though, ruined by the BBC cutting away from the fireworks finale to show us clips of Olympians. Surely they could have done this at another time?

[bibblebub]

they seem to have prepared many, many video montages, Duncer, they're going to be shoving them in the coverage every five minutes

[ummmm]

From Wiki...

In the aftermath of the inquiry, Lawrence continued to campaign for justice for her son as well as for other victims of racist crime. She has worked to secure further reforms of the police service. In 2003 she was awarded an OBE[6] for services to community relations.

She founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust[7] to promote a positive community legacy in her son's name. Lawrence has been selected to sit on panels within the Home Office[8] and the Police Service, and she is a member of both the board and the council of Liberty,[9] the human rights organisation, as well as being a patron of hate crime charity Stop Hate UK.[10] On 22 May 2009, Lawrence visited Countesthorpe Community College to speak to the students about the aftermath of the murder of her son. On 27 July 2012, she took part in the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, holding the Olympic flag with Ban Ki Moon, Shami Chakrabarti and others.

[Duncer]

I know all about her ummmm, but there are many others who have suffered and then subsequently campaigned bravely. I would contend this choice was politicised because of the race issue surrounding that dreadful murder.

[bibblebub]

Why was that Chakrabarti woman one of the flag bearers? How many people, if they were thinking of a list of just 8 people for that task, would come up with her name?