China: Sneak peek inside Athletes’ Village

China: Sneak peek inside Athletes' Village

Posted 16 August 2008 9:12 GMT

Countries	China
Topics	Environment, Health, Sport
Languages	English
Special	Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All Posts

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Still at the Catch Up Lady's blog, we had to give big props to this post too, ‘Bikes in the Athletes' Village: An Olympic Revolution': “One of the best “insider” stories that came out of the afternoon was the inside scoop on the collapsible bikes that all the athletes' are riding. I'm not going to spoil it - so you'll have to watch the video…“

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