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And it felt like a deserved finale for Vancouver, which had begun these Olympic games on a grim note with the death of a Georgian luger and endured henpecky criticisms about opening-ceremony glitches and its gray, temperate weather.
Whoa, Canada, That Was a Heckuva Game Jason Gay 2010
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And it felt like a deserved finale for Vancouver, which had begun these Olympic games on a grim note with the death of a Georgian luger and endured henpecky criticisms about opening-ceremony glitches and its gray, temperate weather.
Whoa, Canada, That Was a Heckuva Game Jason Gay 2010
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With a sort-of aerial view (perhaps just taken from a high seat?) you get the whole diamond, along with the opening-ceremony unfurling of a giant flag in the outfield.
Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009
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The pomp hints at the Olympics opening-ceremony extravaganza, choreographed by director Zhang Yimou.
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SUTTON COLDFIELD, England U.S. captain Curtis Strange closed his opening-ceremony remarks Thursday by promising the Europeans that his team "will play hard but with civility" when the 34th Ryder Cup begins Friday at The Belfry.
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Right from the start of the closing show, there was a spirit of redemption as the producers made up for an opening-ceremony glitch in which one leg of the Olympic cauldron failed to rise from the stadium floor.
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Right from the start of the closing show, there was a spirit of redemption as the producers made up for an opening-ceremony glitch in which one leg of the Olympic cauldron failed to rise from the stadium floor.
Fore, right! DAVID CRARY 2010
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Right from the start of the closing show, there was a spirit of redemption as the producers made up for an opening-ceremony glitch in which one leg of the Olympic cauldron failed to rise from the stadium floor.
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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Footage of Kumaritashvili's doomed run made for a similar phenomenon up in Vancouver, taking hold on the Web as a sort of sideshow to NBC's opening-ceremony parade.
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The opening-ceremony hoopla was shared in Halifax, although it was tempered somewhat by the death earlier in the day of Georgian Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a training crash.
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