Al Jazeera looks at China’s all-out drive to create an Olympics like no other.
From: Sports World
Overshadowing the Beijing Olympics
Sportsworld special: the best from Al Jazeera’s correspondents around the globe.
18 Aug 2007
Sportsworld special: the best from Al Jazeera’s correspondents around the globe.
Al Jazeera looks at China’s all-out drive to create an Olympics like no other.
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