Abstract
opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was a spectacular event that dazzled the world with its creative use of technology, including the lighting of the Olympic torch by a former Chinese Olympian flying through the air. Audiences around the world marveled as the thousands of human performers integrated with technology to form the Chinese ideograms illustrating the history of the host nation. It was a coming out party for the People's Republic of China as a global player on the world stage in both sports and politics. The modern Olympics have long turned into a yardstick of not only the sport status, but also the international status of one state, position, weight and prestige in the world hierarchy,1 according to Andrei Davydov.
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