Andy Murray was the flagbearer for Team GB.
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Hours before the opening ceremony, the Greek Olympic committee announced the first positive doping test of the Rio Games.
Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer was not officially introduced at the Olympic Ceremony on Friday night, breaking with protocol apparently due to reports that he would be booed.
The cauldron in central Rio is expected to be lit by a runner after the opening ceremony is finished, Howe said.
Including Brazil’s history of slavery in the opening ceremony brought cheers from many on Twitter.
The mega-cities of Brazil formed in a dizzying video display as acrobats jumped from roof to roof of emerging buildings and then on to the steep favela that served as the front stage for the ceremony.
The ceremony also had a strong environrmental message Reuters As host, Brazil were the last nation to enter the Maracana Stadium, led by Yane Marques.
According to the details, the commission claimed it had found evidence that Russia’s Sports Ministry and the Center for the Training of Russian National Teams and the Federal Security Service had covered up a doping program in Russian sports.
The proceedings also celebrated the culture of the favelas, the country’s slum dwellings, with numbers sung by stars Karol Conka and 12-year-old rapper MC Soffia.
The crowd roared when Bundchen sashayed from one side of the 78,000-seat arena to the other, as Tom Jobim’s grandson, Daniel, played his grandfather’s famous song about the Ipanema girl “tall and tan and young and lovely”.
“The world is very tense and so is Brazil. Here is our Olympic answer: The 10,000 best athletes in the world, competing with each other, at the same time living peacefully together in one Olympic Village, sharing their meals and their emotions”.
Team GB tweeted that the moment gave them “goosebumps”.
Former Brazilian runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima gestures after lighting the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 5, 2016.
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Phelps, 31, is competing in his fifth and final Olympics.
