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22nd December 2006

Two Koreas closer to preparing joint Olympic team

North and South Korea are working together to field a joint team for the 2008 Beijing Games.

The IOC said a meeting between representatives of the two countries earlier this month in Doha, Qatar, produced “productive discussions,” but the qualification process for athletes remain an unsolved issue.

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26th November 2006

Suggestion to move starting time of Olympic Games

The Globe and Mail suggests that the timing of the Beijing Olympics is going to be too hot and humid.

September might have been a better option, for example. Temperatures are lower and the sky clearer in what the Chinese call their “golden autumn.”

21st November 2006

Mice to be used to test food

Mice are going to be used to test food and drinks for poisoning a day before it is given to Olympic athletes.

“Milk, alcohol, salad, rice, oil, salt and seasonings will be tested by white mice 24 hours before they are used in cooking or served to athletes,” Zhao Xinsheng, of the Beijing municipal health inspection bureau, was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.

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17th November 2006

Beijing Olympic Stadium set to be a new tourist attraction

CScout reports that the Beijing Olympic stadium will be open by the end of this year to tourists.

Among all the competition venues which are allowed to visit, the nest-like National Stadium and the National Aquatics, known as the �water cube�, will be the most attractive ones concerned by both foreign and domestic tourists.

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30th October 2006

Ticketmaster to supply Olympic tickets

Tickmaster has won the rights to sell tickets at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“We thought the best way to enter China would be through working with the Olympics,” Ticketmaster Chief Executive Terry Barnes told Reuters.

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27th October 2006

China considers shutting city down for Olympics

The organizing committee is considering shutting down Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games.

The Australian International Olympic Committee member Kevan Gosper says Beijing is prepared to force private cars and trucks off the road and shut down industry, if that’s what it takes to cut pollution during the 2008 Games.

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12th October 2006

Preparing for a frugal games

Beijing is tightening an ever increasing Olympic Game budget.

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2nd October 2006

Huge media interest in Beijing Games

There is an ‘unprecented’ media interest in the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.

“For the United States, we probably have three to four times the amount of accreditation applications than we have,” said Robert Condron, director of media services of the US Olympic Committee, while attending the First Press Briefing on the 2008 Olympic Games that ended yesterday in Beijing.

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18th September 2006

Main stadium completed

The main Olympic stadium in Beijing has been completed. The stadium seats 91,000 people and was designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron.

The Olympic committee have advised organizers in the past to slow down with preparations, but at least with the stadium now complete, they can test their event planning skills at the stadium by holding some major events.

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6th September 2006

China vows freedom for foreign journalists

The Chinese government has said that international reporters will be to travel unhindered anywhere in China while the games are taking place.

Mrs Jowell, who is visiting Beijing as UK Olympic minister, said she received a positive response when she raised the issue with her counterpart, Mr Liu. “He gave me a clear assurance that he would support unimpeded movement of accredited and non-accredited journalists to report not just on the Games but on China,” she said.

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