Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

In a bid to keep waiting spectators warm, the two MCs on stage have announced some audience participation.

Cue K-Pop, formation dancing and flashing lights. Everyone seems to know the moves too! Think Macarena crossed with Gangnam Style.

Speaking of Lizzy Yarnold, watch again her memorable moment from the 2014 Games as she took the gold medal in Sochi four years ago.

Defending skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold will carry the Great Britain flag at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in about an hour's time.

"I'm going to try and hold the flag straight arm out the whole way round, I'll give it my best shot," she says.

"To be the flagbearer for Team GB in Pyeongchang is a huge honour."

Robin Cousins
Olympic gold medallist figure skater on BBC TV

A good opening ceremony should have grandeur, pomp and circumstance and the highlight is when all of the colour comes together with the athletes wearing their team gear and they get celebrated as Olympians in a united event.

I think the GB team is ready to go. Everyone is in great spirit so let's hope everyone has a great Games.

Fancy some more action from earlier on?

Olympic athletes from Russia figure skating pair Vladimir Morozov and Evgenia Tarasova set the highest score in their team pairs routine and you can watch their routine again here.

Alice Wright: Really excited for #olympicsopeningceremony, external - my husband and I made an appointment to watch it together!

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

So far I’ve seen flags from Sweden, Germany, Finland, Russia, Canada, and South Korea.

No British fans so far. My quest continues...

So, some timings for you to look out for.

The opening ceremony gets under way at 11:00 GMT, the parade of athletes starts at 11:21 GMT (to be exact), speeches at 12:30 GMT and the lighting of the Olympic flame is scheduled for 12:54 GMT.

The atmosphere is growing before the opening ceremony as North Korea cheerleaders wave Korean Unification flags.

Twelve female ice hockey players from North Korea are taking part at the Pyeongchang Olympics, which is the first unified Korean team for any sport at the Olympics.

Image source, PA

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

There haven’t been many fans around the various venues over the last few days, which isn’t surprising when there’s no sport on.

But the queue to get into the Olympic Stadium was huge - and that was with four hours to go until the ceremony starts.

The main attraction as you come in is this couple from Florida.

Selfie central!

BBC One

And you can watch all the action from Pyeongchang on BBC One right now with the opening ceremony due to start at 11:00 GMT and lasting for just over two hours.

Press the play button at the top of this page to watch along.

Meanwhile, in the men's competition...

'Kingsbury nailed that' - Mogul favourite Mikael Kingsbury lays down a marker to the rest of the field as he nails his first qualifying run with a score of 86.07.

And this is some of the action from the moguls this morning - a competition that looks like one of the most painful going. You need strong knees and a strong back for this one.

It was a tricky task for South Korea's Seo Jung Hwa as she ran into trouble in her moguls qualifying run and was the only competitor not to complete the course, meanwhile France's Perrine Laffont "barely puts a foot wrong" on her way to the top of the leaderboard.

Nick Hope
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

No crowds? No chance! Thousands turned up for the opening morning of freestyle action at the Bokwang Phoenix Park where the women’s and men’s moguls athletes have been in qualification action.

Image source, AFP

Another talking point in the build-up to the Games has been the fact that after a year of unprecedented tensions, North Korea unexpectedly decided to attend the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea.

So why is the North participating and what could go right or wrong during the Games?

Luckily, our friends on news have written a huge feature on North Korea's participation to answer all your questions.

Some big news from earlier today - the Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed an appeal, external by 47 Russian athletes and coaches against a ban on participation in the Winter Olympics.

The Russians had argued that they had been wrongfully excluded from the Games by the International Olympic Committee.

It comes amid a long-running row over Russian doping which has seen the country banned from the games.

However 169 Russians have been invited to attend and will compete under the banner of "Olympic athletes from Russia". They will fly the Olympic flag rather than the Russian one.

Image source, Getty Images

It's not only the temperatures that have been making the headlines, but also an outbreak of Norovirus. Dozens of private security guards at the Winter Olympics have been taken to hospital with norovirus, prompting organisers to call in soldiers as guards instead.

Vomiting and diarrhoea hit the security staff on Sunday. Some 1,200 of the guards have been withdrawn from Olympic sites, with 41 having reported symptoms. Hand sanitiser has now been distributed and the head of the organising committee has apologised.

Games spokesman Christophe Dubi said that measures had been put in place to avoid a further outbreak of the highly contagious virus.

"Very stringent measures are in place when it comes to food and beverages," he said. "As soon as a case is reported then all the area gets disinfected," he added.

Image source, Getty Images

The weather may be cold, but the food certainly isn't.

BBC Sport presenter Clare Balding heads out into the markets of Pyeongchang to try some of the local food ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics.

It's a little bit spicy, as you can see below.

It's a glamorous business this Winter Olympics stuff.

Greg Cackett, part of the British bobsleigh squad, posted a video on Instagram earlier on along with the caption: "Anyone wondering how we get training done in -20 temperatures, we go down to the slightly less freezing garage. It's all glamour."

Watch how Cackett gets on with his unusual training method below (BBC Sport app users may need to click on the link to see the video).

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

As you’ve no doubt seen and heard, there’s been a lot of talk about the cold weather in Pyeongchang.

We were treated to tropical conditions on the coastal side of the city today - a balmy seven degrees.

But as soon as you arrive at the Olympic Stadium - about 20 miles south west - the sub zero temperatures hit you.

The water that runs next to the arena looks like the figure skating rink and the Siberian winds are swirling.

Good job I’m wearing two coats and two hundred pairs of socks.

Image source, Caroline Chapman