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How to Watch the 2016 Rio Opening Ceremony Live Stream Online

It won’t have James Bond and the Queen, but here’s hoping the Rio opening ceremonies give us some samba music and a glimpse of Gisele.

After months of waiting, the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics will kick off with the Opening Ceremony on Friday night at 7:00pm EST.

Historically, the Opening Ceremony have been used by host countries to set the tone of the entire Games.

For the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, China showcased its ambitions for world dominance and its strong nationalism; in 2012, the London Olympic Committee decided to show off national treasures, like Paul McCartney, James Bond, Posh Spice, and the Queen herself. And for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia put on a creepy, disorganized, over-the-top ceremony in Sochi.

Will the 2016 Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony continue the theme of apocalyptic, Zika-infested mayhem? Will it be a tropical pageant full of samba music and carnivalesque joie de vivre? Will it feature Brazil’s most famous exports, former Victoria’s Secret Angels Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio?

Watch to find out.

How to Live Stream:

NBCUniversal’s networks and digital platforms will be showing nearly 7,000 hours of programing over 19 days during the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app will also live stream coverage of the Games for pay TV subscribers via TV Everywhere. You can download the NBC Sports app to your Android TV, Apple TV, Xbox or Roku or use the iOS, Android or Windows Phone apps.

You can also live stream Olympic matches from NBC here, with no login required.

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