The Beijing Olympics will be in full swing by this day next year and the purported star of those Games will be China itself. Every host city, host country of an Olympics hopes to put on a memorable show, hopes to use the honor and glory of the Games as the ultimate public relations platform for their pride in country history and their national treasures. Athens, in 2004, even at the refurbished subway stops, you were
treated to some interesting ancient artifact right there under glass as
you stepped off the train...
