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Friday's opening ceremony of the Paralympics will be a family-friendly show that will include a segment about the origins of the international sporting event, says the producer of the event.

VANCOUVER '€” They began with death and recrimination, with bad weather and harsh criticism, and, for a short while, people were saying the Vancouver Games would go down in history as the worst Winter Olympics ever.

Stephen Colbert has gold-medal star power.

Vancouver organizing committee chairman John Furlong, in response to reporters' questions Monday, said there was no need to apologize to Quebecers for a perceived lack of French in Friday night's opening ceremony.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—The show goes on.

The mood in the Olympic world was far from what organizers had hoped heading into Friday’s opening ceremony. The death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili from the country of Georgia after a horrific training-run crash assured a muted and distraught start to the Vancouver Games.

“This is a very sad day,” said a visibly shaken Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee. “The IOC is in deep mourning.”

VANCOUVER (AP) -- The show goes on.

The mood in the Olympic world was far from what organizers had hoped heading into Friday's opening ceremony. The death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili from the country of Georgia after a horrific training-run crash assured a muted and distraught start to the Vancouver Games.

"This is a very sad day," said a visibly shaken Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee. "The IOC is in deep mourning."