SOCHI: Fans may have paid $1,000 a ticket to see the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics, but insisted it was value for money for a trip through Russia's history and culture.

The show -- which featured a ballet performance, opera singer Anna Netrebko and some impressive props flying over the spectators -- was "superb, beautiful," a group of Frenchmen praised as they exited the lit-up Fisht stadium.

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