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Randy Wilber, an exercise physiologist, is hard at work preparing the U.S. Olympic Team to face the air pollution expected at the Beijing games.

BEIJING - Chinese leaders have promised to make next year's Summer Olympic Games in Beijing non-smoking - ambitious for this country of 360 million smokers. Never has the event that celebrates physical fitness been held in a country more hooked on tobacco and more afflicted by smoking-related diseases.

Bookmark this page and you can watch the Olympic Games without a TV. Especially useful for catching the events that get little to no airtime — equestrian dressage, anyone?

Nike is the official sponsor and supplier of Chinese athletes for the Beijing Olympic Games. This is some pictures of Nike clothing designed for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Air pollution in Beijing could cause some Olympic events to be postponed if the matter is not resolved in a year's time warned Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee.

After US cyclists arrive for 2008 Olympics wearing face masks because of Beijing pollution, many Chinese argue on Chinese forums, some accusing the Americans of being rude while others defend the Americans, agreeing that Beijing air really is bad.

Beijing authorities have been working hard to rid the 2008 Olympic host city of beggars, stray cats, bad English signs, polluted air, rundown hotels, and foreign students who are seen as a political threat to the Games. Now that hand-foot-mouth disease has once again reared its ugly..

“Should the sport goes Olympic, its development here just can not be stopped,” Chang noted. Yes, with this promising women boxing team, the made-in-China Olympic machine would generate more power in the next Olympic Games, and the generous GASC will of course throw more Renminbi into the CBA without thinking twice.

Politicising the Olympic Games is never right. Not even if the Chinese government is doing it.