Members of the International Olympic Committee are meeting in China for the first time, just six days before the Beijing Games are to open. Amid the pre-Olympic enthusiasm they have to tackle some thorny issues.
Besides practical matters like the air pollution over the city, IOC president Jaques Rogge and his colleagues will also have to deal with the continuing censorship of several websites by the Chinese authorities, a move that has drawn much international criticism. In another development the IOC stripped the US 4x400m men's relay team of gold at the Sydney Games in Schalke's Rafinha Takes Unauthorized Olympic Leave ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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