Workmen busily prepare the Beijing Millennium Monument
Workmen busily prepare the Beijing Millennium Monument (Getty Images)

Let the Reporting Begin

August 10, 2007

Opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics will commence on August 8, 2008, in China. The infrastructure will be in place but questions remain about other conditions, like press freedoms. Jocelyn Ford, with the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, discusses whether the country is ready to receive the world’s sporting press.

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