Fireworks explode above the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Fireworks explode above the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The world’s greatest athletes competing for Olympic gold in Brazil - that’s something worth fireworks and loud cheering. As years of preparation culminate in this time-honoured sporting spectacle, we wonder what the Olympians of old would make of its newer sporting disciplines: trampolining, kitesurfing, skateboarding… we think they’d want to have a go themselves!
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