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21:43 June 18th, 2008

50 days out, where’s the Bird’s Nest gone?

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Posted by: Nick Mulvenney
Tags: Countdown to Beijing

Fifty days before the Games open and Beijing was blanketed in smog on Thursday. 

Photographer David Gray went to take some pictures of the Bird’s Nest from a nearby apartment block and this is what he saw.

Smog engulfs the National Stadium, also known as the ‘Bird's Nest', on a bad pollution level day in Beijing

  To add to the discomfort, Thursday was horribly humid. I wouldn’t want to run a marathon at the best of times, but to do so on a day like this would be unpleasant in the extreme.

Photo by David Gray, of course.  

  

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4 comments so far

June 19th, 2008
6:14 am GMT

it looks bad.
i also wonder for every previous olympics games hosting city, has air pollution been such a big concern? or beijing is so speical?

- Posted by fuhao
June 19th, 2008
6:30 pm GMT

I rode my bike around for a couple of hours on Wednesday and had felt some pain in my chest. I don’t suffer from asthma and fairly healthy. The air recently only seems worse than a few months ago. One thing I don’t understand is that they haven’t stopped non-Olympic construction. The dust is horrific at the moment. I know they are trying to finish some buildings which is fine, but others that have no chance of getting done, should be put on hold.

- Posted by Mike
June 24th, 2008
1:59 am GMT

dirty.

- Posted by beijing resident
June 27th, 2008
2:23 pm GMT

[...] Reuters. [...]

- Posted by Smog Attack « Beijing Olympics 2008

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