Olympic Information Center: links on 20 July

All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport

- A new era for Olympic coverage coming in the form of athlete blogs (The Canadian Press)

- Olympics - It's our party, not yours (Flying Pigeon)

- China's discontented challenge Olympic hurdles (Reuters)

- Beijing Olympics: Village of the desperate and dispossessed is razed before Games in China (Telegraph)

- Car restrictions begin in Beijing (BBC)

- The 'no-fun' Olympics (China Rises)

- For Games, China playing to gallery (Chicago Tribune)

- Olympics Rules-A-Palooza (WSJ-blogs)

- Beijingers told to mind their manners (BBC)

"Subjects to avoid include what foreigners earn or how much they spend, how old they are, whether they are married and whether they are healthy." - You

- Citizen journalists challenge Beijing (The National)

Olympic Information Center: links on 19 July (China Herald)