1.   A day before the game, Avalanche flags decorated cars cruising downtown and red-white-and-blue jerseys were the fashion rage.

2.   Chinese paper dragons and decorated cars also were part of the spectacle.

3.   In Antananarivo this week, posters were plastered on most walls and election caravans blaring slogans from brightly decorated cars and trucks on the tree-lined boulevards.

4.   Meanwhile, hundreds of gaily decorated cars and motorbikes tooted their horns during a two-hour long parade that ended at the city center.