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To: dfwgator

1992 Summer Games, Barcelona - The opening ceremonies close with one of the most spectacular cauldron-lightings in Olympic history, as Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lights the flame by shooting a burning arrow high into the air. It’s soon revealed that Rebollo was ordered to actually overshoot the cauldron rather than risk hitting a spectator below.


670 posted on 02/12/2010 7:34:36 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT ( Self-appointed Thread Monitor)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

If there was any Olympics Games I really wish I could have gone to, it would have been the Barcelona Games. I had a friend there, and they said it was the most awesome time.


684 posted on 02/12/2010 7:35:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: CharlesWayneCT
It’s soon revealed that Rebollo was ordered to actually overshoot the cauldron rather than risk hitting a spectator below.

Sissies.

702 posted on 02/12/2010 7:38:48 PM PST by CaptRon
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