History is made: Olympics finally under way in China

By John Leicester / The Bulletin
August 9, 2008

BEIJING — Bubbling with pent-up anticipation, the huge crowd counted down the last five seconds to China’s biggest moment on the world stage: “Wu! Si! San! Er! Yi!”

Then, crack! Fireworks kicked off the stun-and-awe globally televised extravaganza, opening....

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