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Surreal Olympics opening ceremony hit by torrential rain
The Paris Olympics opening ceremony began following a day of travel chaos.Earlier, Eurostar services and France’s high-speed rail network were thrown into mayhem by widespread and co-ordinated “malicious acts” of vandalism by arsonists, just hours before …