Performers kick off celebrations for the one year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during a hazy morning at the Millennium Monument in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. Later in the evening, at 8:08 p.m. and 8 seconds, ceremonies marked exactly one year until the opening ceremony on Aug. 8, 2008 for Beijing to host the most awaited and most expensive Olympics in history.
(Photo: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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