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China’s Olympic battle for legitimacy: The prehistory of the 2022 Beijing Games
Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms — to heal the scars of Western colonialism and civil war
IOC eyes healthy profits from Beijing Games
From its dangerously empty coffers in the late 1970s to the multibillion-dollar revenues from the Beijing 2008 Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has managed a…