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Listed below are comments made by plasticjmr78 between Wednesday, 13th August 2008 and Friday, 15th August 2008.

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Getting used to being a lady of leisure 11:49am on 15 Aug 2008 Terribly hard luck Gail, you and Nathan obviously put your all into that - it's all there on the court for people to see. Can't ask for more than that, you guys are heroes.
Not quite what we thought 12:53pm on 13 Aug 2008 I don;t remember this much fuss about the Barcelona opening ceremony in '92.

Everyone applauded the moment the archer shot the flaming arrow to 'light' the cauldron; but this was a fake too.

The arrow passed way above the cauldron and sailed out of the stadium; there is amateur footage of this on YouTube from people filming at the back of the stadium. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fca-MbAKOV0 )

It was considered too dangerous to do for real as during practice the arrows bounced out of the cauldron and on to the empty seats that would have been full of spectators in the ceremony, so they faked it with the official camera being placed low down so that the arrow's flight out of the stadium was masked by the cauldron itself. The flame was lit by technicians from a special pyrotechnic effects company right on cue.

Why the fuss now and not then?

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