Article 1PGQ0 Olympic organisers invoke MacGyver to describe spirit of opening ceremony

Olympic organisers invoke MacGyver to describe spirit of opening ceremony

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Ian Prior in Rio de Janeiro
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Olympic organisers invoked the spirit of cult 1980s television show MacGyver to describe their attempts to make Rio's bargain-bucket opening ceremony live up to the memory of its predecessors.

"Athens was classic, Beijing was grandiose, London was smart - ours is going to be cool," said Andrucha Waddington, the Brazilian film director who is part of the team behind Friday's ceremony in Rio's Maracana stadium.

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