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Old 08-08-2012, 11:18   #161
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Re: Olympics have officially Begun - But...

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Originally Posted by mobertol View Post
So it was all pretty naff -my husband didn't understand most of it despite Italian comentary and my attempts at explanation. God knows what they thought about it in Rwanda or Guam or the Congo...

After half an hour of feeling faintly embarassed I began to understand where it was coming from -until it turned from the hard-working ethic of the British Isles to the youth culture of today based on TV and technology.

As Susie said: thank goodness the athletes started to enter into the Stadium at that point - All the world in a Stadium- globalisation in its essence- a celebration of humanity.

First ever Saudi Arabian female in the Olympics - lost at Judo...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/sp...-in-debut.html
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