You just don't want to take your eyes off the opening ceremony, even a moment, said Geoffrey Calkins, a U.S. journalist, after watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games in the Bird's Nest on Friday.

Calkins, a journalist from Scripps Howard News Service, who witnessed Olympic Games opening ceremony four times, said he kept his attention for the whole time.

"You don't want to take your eyes off (the opening ceremony) for you might miss something. Maybe one moment you missed deserves to be remembered forever," said Calkins, who has been a sports journalist for 15 years.

"I'm someone who likes Olympic opening ceremonies. I thought this is beautiful. The globe coming out the ground is beautiful. The drums in the beginning is very striking. I like the dove very much constituted by performers in lighting uniforms," said he, referring scenes in the opening programs.

"Everything here is wonderful so far. I like the end when the globe come out the ground and the athletes injected on the globe. I think that's beautiful.

"I saw it in Turin, I saw it in Athens, I saw it in Sydney, so I have seen it quite a few times."

For Calkins, the fireworks movement around the city is most creative. "When they used the whole city, the fireworks all around the city moved towards the Stadium. I thought that's something I've never seen before," added he.

The fireworks shined up like the footstep of a giant running towards the Bird's Nest along the main axis of Beijing city from south to north.

"I don't know much about the technology, I think the guys in the boxes were cool. That's not technology, I think, just imagination and creativity. It's beautiful. I still don't know how the dancers were driving with their hands on the scroll. Obviously some kind of technology there," Calkins talked some spectacles he was impressed.

For Olympic opening ceremony, Calkins usually remember one thing. "I remember in Los Angeles, they had a lot of pianos. I remember in Barcelona, they had the archer to light the cauldron. Most of them (memories) fade away, but sometimes there is one thing stick with you. I don't know what that one thing would be to stick with me here, but just the moment I got a lot in mind with the ceremony," said he.

The opening ceremony started from eight clock p.m. local time, igniting the August 8-24 Beijing Olympic Games.

Source:Xinhua