Staffs seeking flaws, making smooth operation
As the the deputy director of the Olympic Village, Deng Yaping said the last-minute preparation will be the welcoming ceremony for each Olympic delegation.
Three Polish athletes train at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 27, 2008. The Olympic Village opened to athletes on Sunday to accommodate more than 16,000 athletes and officials from over 200 countries and regions. [Xinhua]
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"Our ability will be tested during the 10 days before the Games' opening," Deng said. "The village has been in 24-hour operation to accommodate the guests."
Deng, a Chinese table tennis legend with four Olympic gold medals, became a sports official after retirement who has lobbied and promoted Beijing's Games worldwide.
"Especially every transitional factor and process of the delegation's reception for so many countries and regions, we will try to make the operation as smooth as possible.
"There are so many concerns to need me. More than 70 advance teams have arrived at the village who will also make preparations for the total 16,000 athletes and officials before the opening ceremony," Deng told Xinhua on mobile when walking to meet some folk artists.
"All of the equipment in MPC is running in good condition," Xu Jicheng, deputy director of the Main Press Center (MPC) said in a hoarse voice. "It is an opportunity for us to test the operation of the media transport system for more and more journalists and photojournalists came in.
"We will adjust the timetable of the media coaches according to the variable actual needs, and officials and engineers from local transport authorities have arrived to adapt the parking lot and pedestrian for extra large number of circulations going to occur during the games," he said.
While, the super powerful air-cooling system in the MPC has made some Chinese journalists freezing. Engineers holding laser temperature measurers cruised the boxes to listen to their needs.
"We will try best to satisfy every demand and will adjust the temperature to a comfortable level, but we have to keep a balance," the engineers said.
The recent haze that has covered Beijing for a few days seems to be the only embarrassment for the organizer, although Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, has revealed there had been 22 days without air pollution from July 1 to 25.
