The largest cheer was for the host team Canada, with Clara Hughes, defending 5000m speed skating champion waving the flag and clad all in red.

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If we above this it will create another high level flag, keeping shorts trapped and the speed of the rally fast.

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Good timing, perhaps, for card-processing giant Visa to wave the flag in Myanmar for card payments, with an emphasis on the potential for mobile-phone transfers to speed up the rollout of financial services.

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