Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

Re: Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

Regardless, it was the best I've ever seen. As Bob Costas said, "As far as opening ceremonies go, you can retire the trophy".

WLNF

Re: Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

Reminds me of the massive May Day parades in Red Square ..........

Re: Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

It was spectacular. I watched the 90 minutes of the ceremony but not the parades. One extremely interesting thing was the mark of the east on their foreheads of 2008 drummers.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Resurgent China opened the Olympics on Friday with volleys of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that wove ancient Chinese history with modern wizardry and aimed to draw a line under months of political controversy.

Drums thundered, firecrackers exploded and 14,000 performers flowed through the Bird's Nest stadium in a dazzling extravaganza that presented a benign image of China and offered up a vision of global harmony echoing the Games' motto "One World One Dream".


http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...11093420080808