Flintlock
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Congrats India for showing up on the medal table...
Onto something else .Seriously, I really have no idea how London can beat what China did, What ever London does, it need to be an entirely different approach to the Chinese opening. I wonder what they have in mind?....Cockney comedians, Premier footballers trying to do a dribbling demonstration, getting the remaining Beatles back together ,the Spice girls ( oh no please..) or the Red Arrows??
UK cannot top the Chinese on sheer numbers of anything - people, money, scale, space etc., so it has to be resourcefulness in style, presentation, and vision.
The organisers here are saying that theirs will be more spectacular (=expensive?) .IMO, what ever they put on will seem second rate after the Chinese ceremony. Or perhaps I am drawing a very early conclusion here...Lets wait till 2012 .
The whole of China has put their last drop of sweat into the Olympics. Naturally, it'll be a hard task to outshine them.
However, I don't see why London has to outdo the Chinese spectacle. They are already a well respected sporting country/city and they don't have to prove anything to the world.
London should hold a modest ceremony that has more meaning than just pomp, and perhaps strive to be green and global rather than ultra-nationalist.