Why had they hired a choreographer for the Opening and Closing Olympic ceremonies, whose trademark was people walking very slowly? Poor old Marchand, with some old lamp and a candle stub inside, had to walk at the pace of the Foreign Legion, which makes the Guards’ slow march look quite zippy. He had to walk from the balloon to Stade de France and, but …
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