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Article: China Focus: Chinese people cheerful and proud for success of Beijing Olympic Games
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 24, 2008
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China Focus: Chinese people cheerful and proud for success of
Beijing Olympic Games
by Xinhua writers Meng Na, Hu Xing and Hai Mingwei
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The sacred flame of the Beijing
Olympic Games was extinguished on Sunday night, leaving behind
numerous touching moments, sports legends, and unprecedented passion
for the Olympic Movement among 1.3 billion people.
While the spectators who just walked out of the National Stadium,
or the Bird's Nest, were understandably too excited to go home and
lingered around the iconic steel-latticed architecture for souvenir
photos, people out of the Chinese capital, even in the quake zone of
Sichuan and on the Tibetan plateau, were also ...