Olympic Information Center: links on 11 July

via Wikipedia

All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport
(I will be traveling until Thursday and the Olympic information center might take a break till then.)

- We are ready #4A! Special bonus post: why travel to China is down (James Fallows)

- Olympic travails (Financial Times)

- Quicker filming permit application process (Playing the game...)

- posted one message

“Following the South China Morning Post coverage in its Olympic section, but it seems always too little, too late, compared to other sources”

- Bring it On, Beijing Style (WSJ-blog)

- Blogging from Beijing: Ithacan getting the Olympic experience (The Ithaca Journal)

Unfortunately, no rss-feed - You

- Olympic Sponsors to Benefit Under a Tougher Stance in China (NY Times)

- Olympic gold, global power (LA Times)

- After the Olympcs, what? (China Beat)

- Beijing Olympic Anti-Terrorism Exercises (Beijing Olympics Blog)

- No Salad (Cup of Cha)

- Olympic broadcasters appear to get their way (Shanghaiist)

- China Disputes Criticism Of Its Air-Pollution Data (WSJ)

- Sarkozy defends decision to attend Olympic opening (IHT)

- Beijing offers hefty rewards for security threat information during Olympics (Xinhua)

- China seeks to reassure on Olympic media freedom (Reuters)

- Who says the Chinese are smelly socks? (Telegraph blog)

- Medals And Rights (The New Republic)

- Why we're staying in China (Xinhua)

The official spindoctors in action! - You

- Xinhua has ground breaking news (China Visa Blog)

- BIMC opens for unaccredited reporters (Play the game...)

Olympic Information Center: links on 10 July (China Herald)