Posted on 28/08/08
London calling
After the scripted spectacular of co-ordinated drumming and mass pageantry that was the Beijing Olympics' send-off to the world, it was hard not be moved by the sight of a red double-decker bus careening through the Bird's Nest stadium with the legendary rocker Jimmy Page aboard to mark the hand-over of the Games to their next host. Boris Johnson, London's recently elected and somewhat bumbling mayor, then managed to completely fumble the transfer of the Olympic flag from his (never elected) Beijing counterpart.
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