By: Jim Slater LONDON (AFP) - US NBA stars and European champions Spain each overcame slow starts to win their Olympic openers with ease on Sunday, serving notice they remain the teams to beat in the fight to reach the gold medal game. With US First Lady Michelle Obama among those watching, Kevin Durant scored 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Americans to a 98-71 win over France, with the US players adapting to more stringent officiating than found in the NBA. "It seems like we get b...

How China Saw the Olympic Opening Ceremony Since the opening of the Beijing Olympics four years ago—a declaration of national arrival which awed some and terrified others—the question has lingered of how London would follow it. Comparisons were inevitable, and perhaps even invited: while China paired one girl’s voice with another’s face for a rendition of “Ode to the Motherland”, director Danny Boyle had “God Save The Queen” sung and signed by a choir including deaf and wheelchair-bound children. L...

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