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Article: A Place in the Sun: Does China deserve to host the 2008 Olympic Games?
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- July 11, 2001
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Chepesiuk, Ron
AsianWeek
07-11-2001
A Place in the Sun: Does China deserve to host the 2008 Olympic Games?
BY RON CHEPESIUK
Zhou "Joe" Yin, a systems analyst at Microsoft, hasn't been home to Beijing
in three years. When he calls home, though, one question dominates the
conversation: Will Beijing host the 2008 Olympic Games?
"There is a lot of excitement in China right now because the people are
anticipating that Beijing will be staging the games," Yin says.
On May 15, the People's Republic of China moved one step closer to reaching
that goal when the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Evaluation
Commission released a key report that identified Beijing, along with Paris
and Toronto, as the ...