THE GREENEST SHOW ON EARTH?

It was July 13, 2001, and the Beijing streets swarmed with revellers celebrating the announcement of the city’s win in its bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. But even before the bid was won, questions were being asked: not so much whether China could pull it off, but rather, how. Could a developing nation – and the world’s fastest growing one at that – really deliver another ‘Green Games’? By Kaitlin Walsh

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