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So beautiful in so many ways, a magnificent display at many levels.
* The city of Paris, always a world treasure.
* The Olympic venues embedded like jewels in the city.
* NBC crafting its presentation with great creativity and skill.
* The heights of human achievement, in diverse athletic modes.
* The chauvinistic pleasures of “USA! USA!” acquitting itself so impressively.
* And all that sheer human beauty -- of bodies and faces of young, healthy, and radiant competitors (of male and female, of various races and nationalities from across the planet).
And let's not forget what the Olympics are supposed to be about (from its origins with the warring Greek city-states who created a zone of competition, but also free of bloodshed, for the games on Mount Olympus). A better world.
The world as it should be.