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David Beckham kicks football rolling towards London 2012 Olympics, farewell China

Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony Revealed: China unveiled an extravagant farewell to the Olympics on Sunday and David Beckham, the world’s most famous soccer player, said hello by kicking a ball to start the countdown to London 2012.
The appearance of Beckham on top of a red double-decker bus that unfolded into a hedge-clipped silhouette of London [...]

London cannot easily surpass Beijing, compete with Beijing Olympics

2012 London Olympic Games and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rival. The director of Beijing’s Opening and Closing Ceremony, Zhang Yimou, told a Guangzhou newspaper last week that only North Korea could have put on a better show, since the communist country is “number one in the world when it comes to uniformity.” Organizers of [...]