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Article: Feature: Foreign spectators excited at Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 8, 2008
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Feature: Foreign spectators excited at Beijing Olympics' opening
ceremony
By Sportswriters Feng Jian
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- "I came from Lithuania. It's a long
trip. I came for the Beijing Olympics," said Vitalija on the
corridor of China's National Stadium just 20 minutes before the
opening ceremony officially starts Friday evening.
Leaning against bars of a balcony, she was extremely excited.
Inside the stadium the mixed spectators of both Chinese and
foreigners were applauding for the pre-shows.
"I came with my husband. Our country is so far away. But the trip
is worthwhile," she told Xinhua in broken sentences of simple
English.
Clad in green, the middle-aged Lithuanian said ...