Leave it to the athletes who didn’t have a country to be the ones who were the happiest to be there. The four athletes who came to the Olympics as “independent athletes” — athletes who couldn’t or wouldn’t compete for their native lands for a variety of personal and political reasons — had a pretty fantastic dance routine going on at the Opening Ceremony.

Even though it included a scene from a Hugh Grant movie, this video from the Opening Ceremony in London — wherein people just smooch the hell out of each other — was the best part of the night’s festivities. The clip, after the jump.

A stunt double dressed as the Queen of England ran past James Bond and jumped out a helicopter in another notable moment from tonight’s Opening Ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics.

We have our very first cool video from the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics, and it features the Olympic rings joining… in fire form! It was quite a sight, as the Danny Boyle-directed First Act (which, as we noted earlier, features David Bowie scaring the daylights out of the entire world) saw its first Big Moment. Just a big, psychedelic Moment. Video, after the jump.