Top 10 Olympic Opening Ceremony moments

VANCOUVER -- The top 10 moments from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games, as witnessed live from BC Place.

1. The athletes of the Republic of Georgia walk in, greeted both by a standing ovation and heavy hearts for Nodar Kumaritashvili, the 21-year-old luge racer killed earlier Friday in a training crash.

3. The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, is the final bearer of the flame before the cauldron lighting. Finally, the machinery comes to life, though not fully, to make the indoor cauldron work. Gretzky carries the flame out to light the external cauldron.

4. The Canadian team enters the house. You could hear the roar even before the maple-leaf flag made its full appearance.

5. Just moments before the Canadians: the United States enters. There's Lindsey Jacobellis and that curly, blonde hair!

6. During the cultural sequence, the fiddle sequence/tribute to Quebec. That production about brought down the house.

7. Joni Mitchell's version of "Both Sides Now" during the tribute to Canada's prairie provinces.

8. The whales and salmon on the big screens in the middle of the arena. Lovely effects.

9. Mexico's team: one athlete, a 51-year-old skier born in Mexico to an aristocratic European family.

10. It was inside. It was warm! Oh, the memories of being so, so cold at the opening ceremonies in Torino and Salt Lake! It was so warm and pleasant inside BC Place that the delegation from Bermuda paraded in -- what else? -- Bermuda shorts.