Rowling declined, more than once, an invitation to appear at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
The medals will be awarded to the winners at the opening ceremony on 29 May 2013.
Bolarinwa, who carried GB's flag at the opening ceremony, settled for bronze in the men's 100m after a poor start.
It contains a message from the Queen which will be read out at the opening ceremony on 15 March 2006.
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The final leg will run from Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII, before arriving at the opening ceremony on July 27.
More than two million applied for seats at the opening ceremony.
Prince Charles will also give a speech at the opening ceremony.
At the opening ceremony, the Nine were hailed as American heroes only a few yards from where they had been threatened with lynching 40 years before.
Irina Bokova was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage in Bali (Indonesia) today.
Also at the opening ceremony were Weston Supermare couple Christine and Mark Holland, who said they had tried and failed to get tickets for the Olympics.
"We are committed to taking all appropriate measures to make it easier for you to invest in Haiti, " President Martelly told investors and celebrities at the opening ceremony.
Li Guilian runs Dayang Trands, a Chinese clothing company that is manufacturing the U.S. Olympic uniforms that the American team will be wearing at the opening ceremony in London on Friday.
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It was the teams from North and South Korea marching together at the opening ceremony under one flag which pictures a blue united Korean peninsula on a white background that stole the show.
Other speakers at the opening ceremony included Mr. Stephen King, representative of the BBC, the Rector of Kabul University, Dr. Akbar Popal, and the President of the Academy of Sciences, Dr. Abdul Bari Rashid.
He appeared by her side at the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games at the end of July and accompanied her on a visit to the Olympic Park as the events got under way.
The tableau of Britain at the opening ceremony included suffragettes, hundreds of dancing nurses, a strident Mary Poppins banishing multiple villains and even a shot of the first lesbian kiss aired on prime-time television.
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The thousand or so, mostly Chinese, attendees were serenaded (inspired?) at the opening ceremony by a 21-piece marching band, participated in the singing of the Chinese national anthem and withstood the glare of dozens of TV and press camera lights.
With 530 athletes representing the United States at the opening ceremony on July 27, it is reasonable to assume that the USOC made cost an important factor when ordering the snappy uniforms, designed by the quintessential U.S.A. brand, Ralph Lauren, but made in China.
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In a speech delivered on his behalf by the Minister of Information and Culture at the opening ceremony in Kabul, President Karzai said that the Government wants to see "a free media which can reflect the realities of society, enlighten people, and search for solutions for unresolved problems".
Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.
The relay runs from 19 May to 27 July 2012, with the torch travelling about 8, 000 miles, culminating in the lighting of the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford at the Games' opening ceremony.
Commuters have been warned they could face heavy congestion with the arrival of the Paralympic Games Torch Relay in London and the opening ceremony at the Olympic Park on 29 August.
The official opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in London will be on Friday, 27 July, 2012.
Then he heard Paralympic organisers were searching for a disabled pilot to conduct the flypast at the Paralympic Games opening ceremony for London 2012.
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At the end of the month, Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony is honoured at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
He is scheduled to speak at the event's opening ceremony this month.
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Sir Simon appeared at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony when he and the London Symphony Orchestra were upstaged by Mr Bean while playing Chariots of Fire.
In exactly a year, the best athletes from around the globe will gather at London's Olympic Park for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.
He has been recognised for his role as director of the opening ceremony at the London 2012 Olympics.
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