What parts of the Opening Ceremony were cut by NBC coverage?

Question

It's now known that NBC cut a lot of the ceremony due to commercials. Why did they do that since it wasn't even live? I mean they can edit it to fit since they had the video and everything so it doesn't make sense.

Was there some sort of opera?

Does anyone know what was cut out and where to get the vids?

Answer 1

ARE YOU SERIOUS AT THE PERSON ABOVE ME!!?? OMFG that is so f*cking messed up if they didn't show all those stars.

Answer 2

Jackie Chan, Karen Mok, Han Hong, and Sun Nan sang the first song, "Stand Up"; while Andy Lau, Nicolas Tse, Joey Yung, Wakin Chau, Wang Feng, and Sun Yue sang the second song, "Cheering for Life". Since the ceremony was already overtime by then, this portion was not televised.

Answer 3

Not sure