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Article: British media give wide coverage to Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 8, 2008
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British media give wide coverage to Beijing Olympics opening
ceremony
LONDON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Major British media organizations
provided extensive coverage to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
Friday, calling it China's show of confidence. Britain's Olympic
and Paralympic broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC), ran live broadcasts of the opening ceremony on its BBC1 and
BBC high definition channels.
Huw Edwards, who delivered the running commentary with Sue Barker
in Beijing, noted the confidence showed by China in the opening
ceremony.
A presenter with Eurosport, another British TV channel that
broadcast Beijing's opening ceremony live, hailed the Beijing ...