Instead, it's better to just come out and say it: while watching the swimming event and cut-down highlights of the opening ceremony, there were moments when we could almost have believed we were looking not at a projected image, but rather through a window direct onto the Olympic Stadium or Aquatics Center itself.

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"It's just doing stupid things out of our character that we have to cut out at the moment, " he said.

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But despite losing out to their Norwegian rivals, Silk Cut finished just 63 minutes behind BrunelSunergy, to leave it in sixth place overall with two legs remaining.

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Were the Bolshoi to be cut out of that global exchange on any level, it would be a setback not just for one of the world's great ballet companies, but for ballet as a whole.

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By just looking at this thing you can tell it's not going to cut it for the WoW addicts or hardcore gamers out there.

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