Changing China
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The Olympic Games by numbers
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18 – number of days of competition – Aug. 6-7 and 9-24.
302 – medal events
10,708 – athletes taking part
21,600 – media accredited to the Games
2,924 – judges and referees
70,000 – Olympic Games volunteers
91,000 – seats in the “Bird’s Nest” stadium
31 – venues in Beijing
6 – venues outside Beijing (Hong Kong, Qingdao, Tianjin, Shenyang, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao)
7,000,000 – tickets sold
5,000 yuan – ticket for opening ceremony ($661.4)
30 yuan – ticket for softball preliminaries ($3.97)
137,000 km – distance covered by pre-Games torch relay
24.9 Celsius – average temperature in Beijing in August
159.7 mm – average rainfall in Beijing in August
Reuters is putting out a ton of stats and factbox material as well as scores of stories per day. If you haven’t already, please check out our Olympics Website here.
NOTE: This post was updated with new information at 0837 GMT on August 8.
