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OLYMPICS/ News
One-year countdown celebration
Updated: 2007-08-08 20:25
Let the party begin. The Beijing Olympics are just a year away.
Sprawling Tiananmen Square was the center of celebrations for thousands of ordinary Chinese and hundreds of Olympic officials as countdown clocks across Beijing reach the one-year mark.
The magic moment came at 8:08 p.m.and 8 seconds,marking one year until next year's opening ceremony on August 8, 2008.
The host city of Beijing invited the world to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a dazzling song-and-dance and fireworks display.
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Fireworks are lit up beside the Tiananmen Gate during a ceremony to mark the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing August 8, 2007. The Games begin on August 8, 2008. [Reuters]
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