Viewers around the world spotted the woman walking next to the flag bearer, wrestler Sushil Kumar, during the ceremony on Friday night.

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"This park was just the ignition of all that, " said Yakup Efe Tuncay, a 28-year old demonstrator who carried a Turkish flag while walking through the park Saturday.

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To aid my adventure I'd been given a wooden walking stick complete with a small Japanese flag and bells that would tinkle with each step, as though I were an Alpine cow.

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Walking to the site, thousands of face-painted, flag-waving, colorfully-dressed sports fans are met by an army of purple and red-clad volunteers dancing, joking and welcoming them.

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Walking along Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan is a guy in a knit hat carrying a large Chinese flag and a handful of China Daily newspapers.

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