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Games start on the wrong foot

Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:44

It has been revealed that part of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was faked.

The fireworks footprints which appeared above the city were digitally inserted computer graphics and not, as was previously suspected, the work of a flying invisible giant with exploding feet.
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