06/08/2016 Newsround


06/08/2016

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You're live with Newsround and we're all about the Olympics today.

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Spectacular fireworks, a parade of nations from around

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the world and the famous lighting of the torch - the 2016 Games

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started in spectacular style in Rio last night,

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watched by an audience of millions, Ricky was there

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Here we are inside the Maracana with the opening ceremony.

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Thousands of people here have just sang the

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Brazilian national anthem and now we are expecting the show to really

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The organisers of the show had used a clever way to show the story up by

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projecting fabulous images onto the floor. It looks stunning. And just

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look at that, the whole stadium has erupted into light. They have asked

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them to use the lights on their mobile phone to create this

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spectacular sight. It would not be an opening ceremony without

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fireworks. I tell you what, Brazil has not disappointed. Team GB have

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just entered the stadium with Andy Murray waving that flag. 360 British

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athletes. There is a pretty here in the stadium as they came out. The

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plane has been let in the stadium. The games have officially begun. I

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think this opening ceremony was about having fun, dancing and those

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of colour. Now the serious stuff begins, the sport. Over the next two

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weeks, it is so great to be about bronze, silver and gold. Thank you,

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Ricky. So the Olympics is well underway

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and we want to know what events Get online and tell us what you'll

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be looking out for and why. In football, Newcastle were beaten

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1-0 by Fulham in the first match Matt Smith headed in Tom Cairney's

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corner just before half-time, not the best start for Newcastle

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after they got relegated Five million people in the UK have

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asthma, a condition which can Most of them use inhalers to make

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themselves feel better, but now scientists are working

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on a pill to treat it instead. The team say the study

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shows 'massive promise'. Although a lot of work

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still needs to be done, it's thought it could be a step

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towards new medicine.

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