Sochi 2014 - Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

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Opening Ceremony commentary ....

Hazel Irvine, Robin Cousins and Daniel Sandford.

Just as they used Carrie Gracie in Beijing - good move making use of expert local knowledge from a correspondent who has worked in the country for a long time.

This isn't going overly well...

"Keep your eye on the snowflakes" says Hazel, ouch:
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Can you expand on what's occurring for those of us who can't view this? Are you referring the ceremony itself of the BBC commentary?

Anyone recognise the English-speaking stadium announcer? He sounds familiar.

Well, there's the olympic ring failure pictured above, then the glow-in-the-dark flag people representing the Russian flag had obviously never rehearsed their parts - two had a disagreement about which point in the grid they were supposed to be, someone's jacket stopped working and then the attempt at walking in a line reminded me of dance school show segments featuring the 3 year olds.

On the BBC front, there were sound problems for the first couple of minutes, with talkback coming out on air.

yay, they did something right! New regular variations to this standard would be nice.

Listings for BBC2 and the red button channels: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26081397

I don't remember hearing a strobe lighting warning??

I thought the same, some really intense flashing lights there!