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Article: Roundup: Opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics draws world attention
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 9, 2008
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Roundup: Opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics draws world
attention
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- People around the world shared the
century-old Olympic dream of 1.3 billion Chinese people and the
dazzling opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics Friday night.
The opening ceremony, inside the new National Stadium in the
capital, was witnessed by more than 100,000 people in the stands and
by nearly 4 billion worldwide as it was broadcast by CCTV.
In Brussels, heart of the European Union (EU), overseas Chinese,
along with dozens of Belgians, gathered before a big flat screen in
a Chinese restaurant, waiting for the start-up of the Games, which
was for the first time hosted by the world's most ...