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Published : June 15, 2008 |
Author : Warrenblood
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Hello Olympic Fans,
My name is Warren from www.theolympicspage.com. I hope you are as excited as me about the upcoming Olympic Games. Below I have a little article about the Olympic Games, do take a read and if you are interested you can visit my website.
Here's a look at some of the venues and preparations under way in Beijing for next summer's Olympics.
-The games. The Beijing Olympics begin Aug. 8, 2008.
-People. Organizers expect 550,000 foreign visitors and 22,000 journalists, with 550,000 local volunteers lined up to help -- one for every guest.
-Infrastructure. Beijing is spending $40 billion to remake its subways, roads and image. The hubbub is driving up hotel prices.
-Etiquette. Government-sponsored etiquette campaigns are working to stamp out bad manners such as jumping ahead in line, spitting, littering and reckless driving.
-English. Cab drivers are under pressure to learn some English. A program called "Crazy English" draws 10,000 volunteers to gung- hoassemblies. Officials are trying to wipe out "Chinglish," theunintelligible English that abounds on billboards, menus and storefronts.
-Pollution. The city's choking pollution and snarled traffic will be controlled during the 17-day Olympics when at least one-third of 3.3 million vehicles will be banned, and dust-spewing building sites and sooty factories are shuttered. Billions have already been spent moving industry out of town.
-Venues.
Beijing is the site for 31 Olympic venues -- 12 new, 11 under renovation, and eight built as temporary structures. Most are located in four clusters in the north of the city.
Five more venues are located outside Beijing in mainland China -- for soccer and sailing. The other venue for equestrian events is in Hong Kong.
The Olympic Village is at the far northern end of the Olympic Green, a high-rise compound for 10,500 athletes.
The Olympic Green area -- site of half the competition venues -- is about 10 times larger than it was in Athens.
The two centerpiece venues -- buildings that will be talked about for years to come -- are the Bird's Nest National Stadium, a gargantuan bowl that seats 91,000, and the Watercube National Aquatics Center, a simple box design considered the Games' "cool" building, with a translucent, blue-toned outside skin that makes the structure look like a cube of foam or bubbles.
Thanks… for reading the article brought to you by me, Warren from www.theolympicspage.com. I hope it was of interest to you as it is to me. Remember visit my website for more similar related articles. |
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