One world One dream by Zuzana Valkova

This is the slogan of the 29th Olympics Games 2008. This year the organizing country is China, exactly Chinese city Beijing. Chinese people can't wait to this August when everything starts. The Games will last 16 days, from August 8 to August 24. In Beijing, they are almost ready with all the preparations. They built many sport stadiums and places for this. Only in Beijing there are 31 Olympic venues. One of the most famous is Beijing National Stadium. I'm sure that you have already heard about this building. It's huge sport stadium, which looks like a bird nest from outside. It has very special construction and it took 4 years to build it. It has also a huge seating capacity, about 80000 seats. The opening and closing ceremony will be hold there. After opening ceremony it will be place for soccer games and athletics. They are planning to use this stadium after the Games for sports and cultural activities. Another special building, built exactly for these games is Watercube & swimming pool. From outside it looks like a huge cube full of bubbles. At the top of the building is Teflon-like material, so this allows the building to breathe. After the Games, they want to rebuild it for shopping, sport and culture center. Beijing has already mascots & the Fuwa. Fuwa literally means Good luck dolls. Every one represents something else. They are: fish, fire, panda, Tibetan antelope and swallow. They have something in common with Chinese elements, but only roughly. So this summer belongs to China. I hope they will have great Games and show us that it's not about winning, but about people being together and happy.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080128/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_beijing_watercube;_ylt=AkD_w3.4QJa6ZSqbCh49XUL7Uc0F

by Zuzana Valkova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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