Of oranges and Olympics
Posted by: Alister Doyle
What have oranges got to do with winning an Olympic gold medal in polluted Beijing?
Try this great feature by Deborah Zabarenko to find out.
The world's athletes, training for years for the Games, are trying to find how to avoid wheezing their way through events.
Masks, special diets, or training camps in Japan are all part of the answer.
Beijing is not the first smoggy city to hold the Olympics -- pollution was a worry in Seoul in 1988 and in Los Angeles in 1984.
So maybe the Olympics should only be held in "clean" cities?
Or maybe the Olympics will -- long after any coughing athletes have left -- benefit the health of millions of people living in Beijing because China is trying to crack down on air pollution?
What do you think?
