BOCOG Executive Board holds 68th session
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-07 09:01 Two highways and a flyover around the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic
Games opened to the public on Saturday, easing the traffic pressure between the
North Fourth Ring Road and the North Fifth Ring Road.
The opening of the Xindiancun Lu, the western extension of Xindiancun Lu and
the flyover of Huixin Xijie offered better conditions for the further
construction of Olympic venues and roads around them. All the three items are
designed construction projects for the Games.
Mass Olympic participation
Hundreds of villagers in Nanqi Village in Changping District in Beijing
hosted a marathon on Sunday, as part of their "Mass Marathon Championship to
Welcome the Olympic Games."
Starting from the village's Experimental Primary School, the participants
ranging from those in their 50s and the teens ran along the local highway in
Qijia Township to the cheers of bystanders.
In Renhe Township of Shunyi District, more than 20,000 villagers have taken
up daily physical exercises, in their bid to keep "In Step with the Olympic
Games."
Press group leader visits
Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice-president of BOCOG met visiting President of the
International Sports Press Association (ISPA) Gianni Merlo on Tuesday in
Beijing.
They exchanged views on the preparatory work for the 2008 Olympic Games and
the 2008 ISPA Congress.
The ISPA was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. Its
legal seat will move to Lausanne, Switzerland this September.
(China Daily 07/07/2006 page5)
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