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 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 front-runners in the race to host the 2008 Olympics.
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