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PARIS - Crowds braved queues at security checks and heavy rain showers as they lined the banks of the Seine river in Paris on Friday to watch an extravagant Olympics opening ceremony that began with an explosion of smoke in the colors of the tricolor flag.
"There are more cops than people, I don't feel in danger," said Jean Landerretche, a 19-year-old biochemistry student from Paris."I can't wait to see how they managed to take the ceremony out of the stadium, I think it's going to be a huge party," said Julie Tourtet, 27, who is volunteering at the Games. "It's really the Olympic spirit: it brings people together, it's moving, we're going to get a huge rush of emotion.
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