Manager Bruce Bochy led the contingent in a Rolls-Royce, championship trophy raised high.
Leading the contingent was Ian Bolliger, a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group ERGG).
Leading the contingent is the flyweight Nicola Adams, twice a world championship silver medallist, who is touted as one of the country's best hopes for a medal at London 2012, when women's boxing will make its debut on the Olympic programme.
Michelle Obama, a lifelong Chicagoan, will lead the United States contingent at the meetings.
Calvin Harris and Rudimental lead the dance contingent, and there's pop from Travis, Katy B and Clean Bandit.
The sport perennially produces a rich medal harvest for the United States at the Olympics, and yet Gary Hall in 1976 is the only swimmer to lead the U.S. contingent into the stadium at the opening ceremony.
As the prospective MP for Gordon, he is likely to lead the SNP contingent in Westminster and tends, in his irrepressible fashion, to suggest he will be calling the shots for his party more broadly.
Officials familiar with the negotiations on the Serbian force insist that a commander like General Radosavljevic would be unacceptable, and that no decisions have been made on who will join or lead the Serb contingent.
With the outbreak of the Burgundian War (October 1474), he went temporarily into exile but soon returned to lead the Bernese contingent in the defense of Morat, an encounter that won for the Swiss army a reputation as the finest force in Europe.
Ciara Mageean will lead the Northern Ireland contingent at the junior event in Estonia where Katie Kirk, Joanna Mills and Andrew Doyle will also be in action.
