Most of the reporting I have seen in the western press on the lead up to the Beijing Olympics I have felt has been fairly accurate and I have had first hand experience of many of the stories. This report in the South Morning China Post is probably one of the less researched stories and paints Beijing and China in a particularly bad light. Beijing nightclub blogger Beijing Boyce asked around at several bars that foreigners frequent and he said none of the owners or managers had received such orders.

From the article:

Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city’s bars during the Olympic Games, a move that would contradict the official slogan, “One World, One Dream”.

Bar owners near the Workers’ Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises….

Security officials are targeting Sanlitun, which Olympic organisers expect to be a key destination for foreign tourists looking for a party during the Games.

The pledges that Sanlitun bar owners had been instructed to sign agreed to stop a variety of activities in their establishments, including dancing and serving customers with black skin, they said.

There have been some bar closures in Beijing particularly in the Sanlitun area, but closures were probably due to illegal drugs.