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The Beijing Olympics were close to becoming a disaster over the protest-marred torch relay, Canadian International Olympic Committee member Richard Pound said in a rare attack on Tuesday.
Pound, a former IOC vice-president who lost the presidential election to Jacques Rogge in 2001, said that many western nations were in a boycott mood over China's crushing of the unrest in Tibet.
Hein Verbruggen, head of the co-ordination commission for the Beijing Games which start on Friday, also issued some criticism by saying that the IOC must control some non-sports-related issues rather than...
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The Olympic flame on Tuesday arrived in Beijing for the final three days of torch relay before it reaches the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium on Friday evening.
The relay in Beijing will begin on Wednesday at the Forbidden City, just north of Tiananmen Square and end at another historical Beijing landmark, the Temple of Heaven.
It will last more than four hours, with the relay route being 16.442 kilometers long. There will be 433 torch bearers on the first day.
On Thursday, the second day of the relay, 268 torch bearers will take the torch 14 kilometres from the Badaling tourist...
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Beijing organizers said Wednesday that they were ready to hold the opening ceremony on Friday.
The director of the opening and closing ceremonies department of the organizing committee, Zhang Heping, said that after three test runs they were confident that everything was in place.
He told a press conference that the ceremony was divided into three parts.
The first would include performances ahead of the official start of the opening ceremony. Thereafter just under an hour of audience participation would take place.
"Every person in the stadium will receive a package with...
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China has everything in place to stage an Olympic Games which will change the world's perception of the country, International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Jacques Rogge said on the eve of the opening ceremony.
"We are extremely eager to get the Games going. It is kind of an expectation an athlete has before competing," he said.
"We have prepared for seven years and done everything needed. You long for the competition."
Rogge reiterated that he had faith in China's organizers despite criticism of the country's human rights record and other sensitive...
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The opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics got underway with a fireworks display on Friday night, setting the stage for a three-hour extravaganza.
The 91,000-strong crowd in the National Stadium was due to be treated to a trip through Chinese history and culture with around 20,000 performers on a hot and sticky night.
The parade of a record 204 nations alone was due to last 1:50 hours in front of almost 90 state leaders featuring among others Chinese President Hu Jintao, US President Goerge W Bush and Russian Premier Vladimir Putin.
Hu was due to officially open the Games...
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