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 | Dancers perform in front of the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong during a cultural and sports show to celebrate the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square Friday, Aug 1, 2008  click to open  |  | Chinese dancers perform the "Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", or "Guan Yin", a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008 click to open |  | Chinese dancers perform the "Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", or "Guan Yin", a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008 click to open |  | Chinese dancers perform the "Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", or "Guan Yin", a Chinese goddess, at the Olympic Village in Beijing July 31, 2008 click to open |  | The Bird Nest National Stadium lit up in Beijing, China, on July 29, 2008. click to open |  | Volunteers keep themselves cool at a rhythmic fountain in front of the Olympic National Stadium, known as Bird's Nest in Beijing, China, Sunday, July 20, 2008. click to open |  | Vehicles pass a major thoroughfare towards the China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters (R) in Beijing July 18, 2008. Beijing's Olympic construction boom has bequeathed an 800-year-old city with some of the world's most futuristic architectural statements, potent symbols of a resurgent power's desire to showcase its development and mastery of technology. Designed by Rem Koolhaus' Office for Metropolitan Architecture as a subversion of the traditional skyscraper, the nearly completed CCTV headquarters joins two towers sloped together with a gravity-defying canopy at 80 storeys' height. click to open |  | Visitors walk near a replica of Chinese courtyard houses built in the Olympic Green near the iconic Bird's Nest National Stadium, background, in Beijing, China, Friday, July 18, 2008. Organizers are putting on the final touches to the sprawling Olympic Green where the main Olympic Games venues are situated click to open |  | Workers labor near a balloon structure setup on top of the iconic Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing, Friday, July 18, 2008. Organizers have imposed complete secrecy over the ongoing full dress rehearsals for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games. click to open |  | Visitors to the Olympic Green walk near a sculpture and the iconic Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing, Friday, July 18, 2008. Organizers are putting the final touches to the sprawling Olympic Green where the main venues for the Olympic Games are located. click to open |
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