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Welcome to the Beijing Olympics

Photography AP Photo/Xinhua/Fan Changguo
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Posted 16:29 GMT on July 25, 2008
Welcome to the Beijing Olympics

Earlier in June, China launched a week-long series of anti-terrorist drills called "Great Wall 5", in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games.

The drills involved emergency responders, "police forces, the People's Armed Police, the People's Liberation Army and the health, environmental protection, meteorology and transportation departments." according to China's Xinhua News Agency.

Just make sure if the guy who wins the long jump isn't your favourite, it'll probably be best to give him a big round of applause anyway, you wouldn't want to be on the end of the flame sprayer.

Check out the rest of the photography, it's amazing.

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Creative Commons LicenseWelcome to the Beijing Olympics (text) by Rob Longworth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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