For US TV audiences a video of a previous show was broadcast.
A trifle cheekily Intel tweeted ‘See how our drone team pulled off a Guinness World Record title for the Opening Ceremony’.
The Olympic organising committee stated: “During the Ceremony, POCOG (PyeongChang Olympic Games) made the decision to not go ahead with the show because there were too many spectators standing in the area where the live drone show was supposed to take place.”