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Some stats about the Olympic Games in - 28 Olympic programs, 302 sub-categories
- 302 gold medals
- 10,500 athletes are expecte to participate
- 21,880 torchbearers will run 137,000 km over 130 days
- The National Stadium (Bird???????Nest) covers an area of 258,000 sq. meters
- The Bird???????Nest has 91,000 seats
- The surface of the National Aquatics Center is covered by 1,437 pieces of transparant material
- The highest price for the opening ceremony tickets is 5000 Renminbi, the lowest is 200 Renminbi
- Beijing expects 550,000 international visitors and 2.4 million domestic spectators
- Over 800 star-class hotels and 4,000 hostels will provide about 420,000 overprized rooms
- professionals will help information flowing on over 12 thousand computers and two thousand printers
- Beijing 2008 Environment Construction Command Office is proposing 65 laws under five categories regarding keeping pollution down to a minimum during the games including a possible mandatory vacations for entire cities who don???????directly service the venues
- Beijing will demolish over 3.32 square meters of ????????egal construction??to improve the aesthetics around the game venues
- smoking is banned at all venues
- Olympic expressways will open on nine Beijing freeways and five co-hosting cities
- China has launched a special zip code specifically for the Olympics in order to have speedy mail service during the games
- Pigs that will be fed to athletes are on a specific organic diet to ensure they are drug free.
