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Thu 08 Aug 2008Forget Tibet, take a look at our Bird's Nest
Big, bold and blatant, the Beijing Games are an unwitting response to complicated times, writes Tom Humphries.
HIGHER? FASTER? Stronger? The usual, thanks, but give us a hero on the side. Somebody we can believe in. Olympic time again and before a starter's gun has sounded, before a medal has been awarded, before a sample has come back positive, Beijing already feels different. It is, for instance, the first Olympics of recent memory not to have involved a race against time.
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