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Article: Gasp! An Air Of Olympic Inevitability

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Measured against Paris, Toronto and Osaka -- the other finalists bidding to host the 2008 Olympic games -- Beijing leaves some things to be desired. Like clean air.

In the mid-1990s, the World Bank declared the Chinese capital the most polluted city in the world. Beijing's particulate air pollution - - the most harmful kind -- is several times the "safe" standard levels that even New York City meets, according to Bank estimates. Blanketed with smog, coal dust and construction dust much of the year, Beijing's air spawns widespread respiratory illnesses and chronic coughs. Even with recent improvements, the air could keep sprinters and long-distance runners wheezing through their events.

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