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Live From The Olympic Opening Ceremonies
The opening of the opening ceremony is nothing short of spectacular. The technological prowess is mind numbing.
Over an hour in, there was a message of global warming..."Ice caps are melting," etc...the odd thing is nowhere is pollution worse than right here in Beijing it seems. The sky above me every day is daunting.
Sorry, it's the truth. It had to be said, now moving on.
Two hours and 40 minutes into the ceremony, a USA athlete was escorted out of the building. Maybe he had to go to the bathroom. He returned about 25 mins later.
The parade of nations is seemingly endless.
Tennis great Roger Federer marched the Swiss flag into the stadium...when they arrived to their standing area, Roger got mobbed by people, mostly US athletes. He posed for some photos and then slinked away into the crowd of athletes. He was very gracious and the MOST mobbed.
Yao Ming enters the stadium and he is HUGE. He walks a full 50 yards in front of everyone else on the Chinese team. He is a hero to these people, all screaming around me, very loudly. He's their hero.
What an exciting moment for his mama.
And by the way, Federer has been captured again.
Speeches and promises to keep it clean have been made. The torch gets passed within the stadium but the last guy to run...well, it's spectacular. Simply spectacular. Beijing has done it!
They did it to perfection. Gotta hand it to 'em.
Billy, the opening was so beautiful. It was truly the best opening I have seen so far. Hope you're having fun!
Because those days are cloudy dude.
just after couple days you will see some blue sky, good luck!
and we are learnt to appreciate others hard woke, what about you?
im kinda too easily touched by beautiful things, they arejust irrisistable.
---From a Chinese
nice Olympics games.
The Olympic Games provide a venue for the entire world to pause, smile, revel, cheer and praise the incredible athletic prowess and national pride so proudly displayed on young, beautiful faces. The flags and anthems fill my heart with absolute joy. The Chinese have provided warm surroundings and spectacular showmanship and technology. BRAVO to all of the athletes, their families and coaches!