While the United States will be battling China for medal supremacy at the 2012 Olympic Games, Mexico will have more modest ambitions, hoping to improve on its 2008 showing in Beijing of two golds and one bronze.
Mexico will send 102 athletes to compete in the games, which take place in London from July 27 to August 12 – a notable increase on the 85 that took part in Beijing 2008.
Mexico’s delegation will be dwarfed by the United States’ 530-member team and China’s 396 competitors. Great Britain will send out 542 athletes for its third Olympics on home soil (1908, 1948, also in London). Canada’s team numbers 277.
The opening ceremony kicks off on Friday, July 27, 3 p.m. (Central Time) at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London. It’s expected to last until midnight local time. (The ceremony will be broadcast on both Mexican free-to-air networks, Televisa and TV Azteca, as well as NBC.)
The show’s artistic director, film director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”), says the “Isles of Wonder” ceremony is inspired by William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and will be about a land recovering from its industrial legacy.
The budget for the ceremony, 42 million dollars), is less than half Beijing spent in 2008.
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