China has spent millions of dollars over According to a report published by the US-
seven years on its security preparations for based Security Industry Association (SIA),
this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing. China will spend $300m (£150m) on security
at Olympic venues. Olympic sites will
have airport-style security checks, with
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X-ray machines, metal detectors and
Chinese
scanners for body searches. Surveillance
anti-terrorist
cameras have also been installed
officers
throughout China’s capital city.
demonstrate
“The Olympic Games is a big event, but
police
there are always a few people who
techniques
conspire [to] sabotage,” said one official.
and skills in
“We are prepared to strike whenever their
the run-up to
conspiracies are detected.”
Beijing
SAFETY IN BEIJING
life in the Grime belt
Pollution around the Olympic stadium in line of defence, and settle deep in athletes’
Beijing could be five times worse than lungs. Some remain there, causing irritation
levels deemed safe by the World Health and inflammation. Others, so tiny they can
Organisation. How will it affect hockey bypass various bodily defences, migrate into
players? the bloodstream.
Dr. Kenneth Rundell, the director of “There is concern about (the pollution) but it
the Human Performance Laboratory will face all the athletes and there is a limit
at Marywood University in Scranton, as to what you can do about it,” said Dr Ian
Pennsylvania, said: “Athletes typically take McCurdie BOA chief medical officer.
in 10 to 20 times as much air,
and thus pollutants, with every
breath as sedentary people
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do.” A 2004 review of pollution
How big a
studies worldwide conducted
problem is
by the University of Queensland,
pollution
Australia, found that during
in China?
exercise, low concentrations of
The BBC
pollutants caused lung damage
investigates
similar to that caused by high

concentrations in people not
working out. Particles can sail
past nasal hairs, the body’s first
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