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There you go, now back to the Olympics

Did you get it?

Before Beijing's opening ceremony I was all ready to write something about the pointlessness of the opening ceremony in the various international sporting events. Normally they're all full of odd dancing which is supposed to symbolise the history and culture of the host nation(s) that you need an army of commentators with the official guide book to hand to explain. Normally if you watch them at all it's only because the opening game/event etc. Follows directly after. I was already to go on about the rubbish the Chinese gave us on Friday.

But wasn't it actually rather good? It had the normal culture and history theme - China's inventions - the compass, paper, movable type, but not presented in impenetrable interpretive dance. There was interpretive dance, but the messages it was trying to put across weren't lost by it. They even thought outside the box (and/or stadium) with the footprints of flame symbolising gunpowder moving across the whole city. Of course the organisers let themselves slip into the appalling clich