Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

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  • Photo 1 of 26 Double Olympic gold medal winner and London 2012 Organising Committee Chairman, Lord Sebastian Coe, has told British athletes not to worry too much how their performance affects the overall medal count and to concentrate on striving for glory. Provider: AFP
  • Photo 2 of 26 Bush to attend Olympic opening ceremony Provider: ITN
  • Photo 3 of 26 Britain's Dwain Chambers wins the men's 100m at the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002. Chambers has started court proceedings against the British Olympic Association (BOA) in a bid to enable him to compete at next month's Beijing Olympics. Provider: AFP
  • Photo 4 of 26 A tourist wearing a Beijing Olympic Games shirt (C) walks past paramilitary soldiers as they stand in formation in front of the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing's Tiananmen Square July 1, 2008. REUTERS/David Gray Provider: Reuters
  • Photo 5 of 26 File photo shows shoppers at Silk Alley market in Beijing. Visitors hoping to stock up on China's infamous array of counterfeit goods when they come to the Chinese capital for the Olympics may be disappointed with authorities carrying out a pre-Games crackdown on illegal vendors Provider: AFP
  • Photo 6 of 26 China meets Dalai Lama envoy Provider: ITN
  • Photo 7 of 26 Chinese workers use a conveyor belt to remove the bright green algae smothering beaches and extending out several hundred metres into the Yellow Sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong province, on June 26. China's pledge of a "Green Olympics" has taken on a worrying meaning at the sailing-venue city of Qingdao, where an algae bloom has coated the coastline. Provider: AFP
  • Photo 8 of 26 Workers at a lemonade and funnel cake stand in downtown Omaha pick up the debris, after a severe storm with strong winds swept through Omaha on Friday, June 27, 2008, destroying the stand. The storm also forced swimmers practicing for U.S. Olympic trials to evacuate pools and knocked out power to large parts of the city.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik) Provider: AP