>>>This is the first day of the Olympics. When does the opening ceremony start?
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>>Tonight at 8PM Eastern. The preliminary ski jump had been scheduled for today but was cancelled due to high winds.
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>Thanks, we'll be watching.
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>BTW, I read in the newspaper today that a free style skier from Montreal told that he saw armed soldiers on top of the hill. Was he joking?

That sounds reasonable. We have National Guard all over California guarding key points in case of "unwanted activity". I would expect that the Olympics has a great deal of such precautions .

There was a spot on tv a few days ago which discussed CIA marksmen were stationed throughout the area with high powered rifles and scopes. They would not define how far they could shoot for security reasons. I would not want to be a squirrel! :)