<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/70242b90-a387-482c-b875-fc8e2a6df47b/86195905-AD6E-44D4-95C7-8E226E938551/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/a-cycling-course-to-remember/" href="http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/a-cycling-course-to-remember/" style="font-size: 11px;">olympics.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/a-cycling-course-to-remember/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/3FF336EE-EEE1-44A0-9479-92F0F80BC4B1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/a-cycling-course-to-remember/"><P class="summary"> Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared that “war has started” after Russian and Georgian forces clashed in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, in an escalation of the conflict. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/a-cycling-course-to-remember/"><DIV class="story"> <H5> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/sports/olympics/09china.html?hp">Games in Beijing Open With a Lavish Ceremony</A> </H5><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/sports/olympics/09china.html?hp"><IMG width="75" height="75" border="0" class="callout" alt="Games in Beijing Open With a Lavish Ceremony" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/08/sports/ceremony_47575.jpg" /></A> <DIV class="byline">By JIM YARDLEY and DAVID BARBOZA <SPAN class="timestamp">1:04 PM ET</SPAN></DIV> <P class="summary"> With world leaders watching from inside National Stadium, the 2008 Beijing Olympics began with a ceremony of soaring spectacle and Chinese national pride. </p> <UL class="refer"> <LI class="free"><A href="http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/the-opening-ceremony-begins/">Rings Blog: Coverage of the Opening Ceremony</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/08/sports/0808-CEREMONY_index.html"><IMG width="12" height="10" alt="Photographs" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/multimedia/icons/photo_icon.gif" /> Slide Show: Scenes From the Ceremony</A> | <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/05/sports/olympics/2008_RINGS_VIDEO_LINKER.html"><IMG width="12" height="9" alt="Video" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/multimedia/icons/video_icon.gif" /> Inside the Rings</A></LI> <LI class="free"><A href="http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/for-olympic-viewers-a-long-wait/">TV Decoder: For U.S. Viewers, 12-Hour Delay Before Broadcast</A></LI> <LI class="free"> <DIV class="inlinePlayer box"><IMG width="13" height="10" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/multimedia/icons/audio_icon.gif" /> Back Story With David Barboza  (<A target="new" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/podcasts/2008/08/08/09backstory-barboza.mp3">mp3</A>)<DIV id="p309722"></DIV> </DIV> </LI> </UL> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/86195905-AD6E-44D4-95C7-8E226E938551/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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