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A local resident holding a national flag walks past a decorative wall with Beijing Olympic motto at Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center, Shandong province, July 19, 2008. Qingdao will be the host city of marine sporting events for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 2008. Picture taken July 19, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

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A labourer trims flowers on a decorative wall at Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center, Shandong province July 18, 2008. Qingdao is the host city of marine sporting events of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

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New Zealand's windsurfer Barbara Kendall practices off Sydney's Rushcutters Bay in this September 11, 2000 file photo. Juggling the different demands of life has become second nature to Kendall as she prepares for her fifth Olympics. A hard training schedule, international travel and the needs of her two young children have all been programmed into the three-times world champion's run-up to next month's Beijing Games. To match feature OLYMPICS/SAILING-KENDALL REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files (AUSTRALIA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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New Zealand's Barbara Kendall competes in the women's Mistral event at the Olympic Sailing venue during the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, in this August 25, 2004 file photo. Juggling the different demands of life has become second nature to windsurfer Kendall as she prepares for her fifth Olympics. A hard training schedule, international travel and the needs of her two young children have all been programmed into the three-times world champion's run-up to next month's Beijing Games. To match feature OLYMPICS/SAILING-KENDALL REUTERS/Nigel Marple/Files (GREECE) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, the barrier to keep algae out of the Olympic sailing venue is installed off the coast of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province, Thursday, July 10, 2008. A forest of blue-green algae is choking the coastal waters, suffocating beaches and lying in thick layers along sailing routes. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Fan Changguo)

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Workers set up floating nets to keep algae away from the Qingdao Olympic sailing competition area on the Yellow Sea, Shandong province July 10, 2008. The algae outbreak off the coast of this Olympic co-host city continued to shrink on Thursday as the density of the green weed shrank to 0.5 percent from 32 percent when it appeared off the coast in early June, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

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Workers set up floating nets to keep algae away from the Qingdao Olympic sailing competition area on the Yellow Sea, Shandong province July 10, 2008. The algae outbreak off the coast of this Olympic co-host city continued to shrink on Thursday as the density of the green weed shrank to 0.5 percent from 32 percent when it appeared off the coast in early June, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

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A girl rests outside the Forbidden City in a haze in Beijing July 8, 2008. Two key measures of pollution in China have fallen slightly in what the country's environmental regulator cast as a victory in the fight for more sustainable development, state media reported on Tuesday. Persistent smog over Olympic host Beijing's skies and a massive algae bloom in sailing venue Qingdao have highlighted China's environmental concerns a month ahead of the Games. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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A worker walks on the roof of the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in a haze in Beijing July 8, 2008. Two key measures of pollution in China have fallen slightly in what the country's environmental regulator cast as a victory in the fight for more sustainable development, state media reported on Tuesday. Persistent smog over Olympic host Beijing's skies and a massive algae bloom in sailing venue Qingdao have highlighted China's environmental concerns a month ahead of the Games. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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A woman walks outside the Forbidden City in the haze in Beijing July 8, 2008. Two key measures of pollution in China have fallen slightly in what the country's environmental regulator cast as a victory in the fight for more sustainable development, state media reported on Tuesday. Persistent smog over Olympic host Beijing's skies and a massive algae bloom in sailing venue Qingdao have highlighted China's environmental concerns a month ahead of the Games. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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