Child Earthquake Survivor Leads Chinese Team

I was really choked, but the moment the veteran guy ran across the "global balloon in the sky" to light the torch, really raised the goose pimples - the point about human endeavour to aspire the highest heights (& stronger and faster!) really put the point across so well!

The Chinese captured the Olympic Spirit in this.  Bravo!

:) It was the best part!

Lin Hao was not merely an earthquake survivor. He was a hero. He rescued two of his classmates when their school collapses. That was the reason he was given the honour of leading the China Olympic team at the opening.

Thanks guys!  Aw, what a sweetheart!  He is my hero!

http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/You may want to read this as well as my own post! And the comments Please, Johnny!http://www.nowpublic.com/world/changing-world-order-news-opinion
There are no coincidences! 

Whoops - seem to have inadvertently trod on some toes; I forgot about the blog.  I thought NP wanted Beijing news hence the "special channel"?.  Seriously though, as much as I abhor China's treatment of Tibet,  I am not sure I agree with bringing politics into sport?  These guys are here to realise all the SPORTING dreams they have have worked so hard to achieve.  Most of the major participators in these games have political skeletons rattling like crazy in their closets?  The little guy throwing the javelin has no wish to harm anyone.

Did anyone notice the little boy's flag was upside-down?

Is that significant in China as it is in the US?

I doubt it was the boy's doing.

It was even more heartwrenching when the announcer said that he saved his two classmates because it was his duty; he was the hall monitor.

I saw the opening ceremonies and that was probably was the most awesome ceremony I have seen so far. But my only bug in it was the fact that the Little child (Lin Hao) was supposed to be the symbol for china now with Lao had his flag on his staff on upside down.

Now seeing that flag upside-down in the kid's hand, can anyone say 'Made in China'?

daaaaaammnn.. ds was awesome.. really worth watching ..

loved everything!   d 2008 drums, those moving blocks, w/c then turned out that ppl wr in there, d lighting of d torch..  everything! great music too..

really spectacular..   

and 080808's my 18th bday so i felt like ds was d whole world's gft to me =D

Most Chinese people I have met seem to have a hard time seeing the problem with Tibet, which is really a shame.  But it is not that different from us not seeing our own problems, at least not to the level as others would see them.  Do you think people should start talking about boycotting games if they were held here because we invaded Iraq, killing tens of thousands of innocent bystanders?  Are we going to tell the world "oops, but it  has nothing to do with our true values in the US"?  Was it only our government?  But sadly it is one that we put there, as we believe our own democracy, and it was one supported by the majority of Americans after serving 1 term!  Same goes with violence and poverty in our inner cities, which we firmly believe have nothing to do with human rights?  Chinese people also have a hard time seeing the different between Tibet and our Native Indians.  Do we ourselves?  People look at things very differently and we tend to be so much more emotional about other people's problems.  The Olympic games are exactly for the reason of setting aside the differences for a few days and celebrating the common values.

He's a cheater...

I heard from some Chinese websites.

In fact, adult heroes are more admirable than children heroes. There’s nothing worth beging proud of him. It was only an opportunity for him. If the earthquake didn’t take place in his home, he would remain obscure; if he were not the youngest hero in the quake, another hero who was the youngest would replace him in Bird’s Nest. If the earthquake took place in another place, maybe there would be a hero far better than him. Anyway, as a child growing up in the country, he musn’t know that after the earthquake, there were still aftershocks. He might think it was already safe after the shock so that he climbed into the ruins and saved his friends. Some people say that it is easier for adults to be heroes than for children, that is unfair. Adults are experienced, and they almost know everything! They know there are aftershocks after the quake, and they know if they climb into the ruins, what’s the worst result. They can save people as they know they may die; but a child just thinks everything easy. Lin Hao didn’t know there were aftershocks, he didn’t know what was actually the worst result for him, which is called ignorance. Therefore when we are praising his bravery, we’ve also praised his ignorance. That’s terrible! Ignorance brings bravery.It can be most lazy people’s excuse to be lazy always and do nothing for our world except daddling and wasting the world resource! Oh God! Poor adult heroes…Why do people always like children? The most answer is that children's eyeballs show innocence. But actually, it's not innocence; it's ignorance...Alas! Where’s the human race going?