Olympic organisers invoke MacGyver to describe spirit of opening ceremony

• Rio's opening ceremony to be pared-down affair
• 'Our budget was not on a par with expectations and we got used to this'

Olympic organisers invoked the spirit of cult 1980s television show MacGyver to describe their attempts to make Rio's bargain-bucket opening ceremony live up to the memory of its predecessors.

"Athens was classic, Beijing was grandiose, London was smart - ours is going to be cool," said Andrucha Waddington, the Brazilian film director who is part of the team behind Friday's ceremony in Rio's Maracana stadium.