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China: Sneak peak at Beijing Games opening ceremony

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 @ 10:21 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Breaking News, Sport, Entertainment
Languages:: Korean, English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Danwei.org has been on a very long roll with its Olympics coverage, and now founder Jeremy Goldkorn has found clips of an opening ceremony rehearsal taken covertly by a Korean television crew. (Update: yes, it took a few minutes for the clip to be harmonized. This might work, however.)

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