China's Olympic Dreams found Latest Enemy : Green Algae -- To Save Olympic Sailing Races, China
Fights Algae / NYTimes

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/asia/01algae.html

July 1, 2008

To Save Olympic Sailing Races, China Fights Algae

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A barge at Qingdao, site of the Olympic sailing regatta in August, was surrounded by algae last
week. The Chinese have begun a huge cleanup effort.

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Reuters / Two soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army clearing flora on Monday along the
coastline in Qingdao.

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Agence France-Presse ― Getty Images
Volunteers helped to clean up a huge algae bloom in Qingdao on Monday

By JIM YARDLEY

BEIJING ― With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of
Qingdao, China, has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algal
bloom choking the coastline and threatening to impede the competition.

There is no reason to hold the Olympics in this polluted and
repressive place!

Micky Wong wrote:

"EVEN The "Brown City" Business People Have LOST INTEREST"

The Commies are continuing to squelch DISSENT as "Games" near.
Citizens in Brown Town fear massive police crackdown.

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"For Hosts, Games Lose Some Luster"

"Many Beijing Residents Find Tribulations of Olympics Outweigh
Benefits"

By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 2, 2008; A01

BEIJING -- It seemed like a great idea last year, starting a hotel-
reservation Web site for this summer's Olympic Games. Companies had
been calling travel agencies 17 months in advance to book rooms.

He Peiyuan, who used to work for just such an agency, calculated that
he could make more than $140,000 with his site, Beijing Hotel
Reservations. But so far, he said, all he's managed to earn from 448
customers is about $43,000.