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tomus42 | 22:20 Sun 11th Aug 2024 | News
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What was the thing with the davy lamp all about?

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"We saw Leon Marchand, swimming genius and emblem of French sporting magnificence, dressed in suit and black tie, collecting the Olympic flame, contained in a miner’s lamp, and carrying it alone across the deserted Tuileries Gardens on the beginning of its journey to the stadium".

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13733473/The-Olympics-provided-needed-light-decidedly-dark-times-writes-IAN-HERBERT-Paris-games-concluded-ceremony-worthy-brilliance-past-two-weeks.html

LOL - That was the Olympic Flame being taken back to the stadium and blown out to mark the end of the games. 

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OK thanks. I wasn't paying much attention. I just saw a guy carrying a davy lamp and then they blew it out.

It was easy to drift off during that Closing Ceremony-dire in my opinion. 
 

I stopped watching when the opera singer kicked off, I was falling asleep anyway

Dull opening and even more dull ending. Went on too long. 

Who was that dreadful group?

Gyles Brandreth on TV this morning said the Opening Ceremony was longer than the Closing one: in fact it was still going on.

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