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VIDEO: What the Olympics opening ceremony is REALLY missing

Introducing… the Olympic Banana.

TRAINSPOTTING DIRECTOR Danny Boyle will this evening oversee a €30million spectacular for the London Olympics’ official opening ceremony.

But the billion people who are expected to watch the three-hour bonanza of music, processions and fireworks will be deprived of one thing.

The humbler, simpler – nay, truer – majesty of the Olympic Banana.

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