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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Olympics 2008 kicks off at Beijing

Olympics 2008 has been started yesterday with a colorful opening ceremony held at Bird's nest in Beijing. The ceremony was pretty colorful with lot of fireworks used in the opening ceremony. The Olympic torch finally carried by the Chinese gymnastic Li Ning. The opening ceremony started at August 8th at 8 pm 8 sec. this date was chosen since this type of arrangement will come on next 3008th year only. Indian team is lead by the silver medalist Rajyavarathan Singh Rathore since the only person to grab a medal for India in 2004 Olympics. This time India has sent a full fledged team to capture as many medals as possible. But until there is politics is in the sports department India will never get into the world ranking list. Lets see what happens for the next three weeks.