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Speech by Jacques ROGGE, President, International Olympic Committee, at the Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the National Stadium. This speech is given by one of my students in an immitation contest at school.

from YouTube on Sun, Feb 22 2009

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