Olympic Information Center: links on 8 July (2)

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All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport

- One month before the Olympics, the dirtiest air in China is in Beijing (CNet)

- China clearing the air for Olympics (Marketplace)

- With a month to go until Olympics, China grows anxious (McClatchy)

- Obama would skip Olympics (AP)

- Crackdown on 'illegal' online Olympic content (Danwei)

- Wall Street Journal gets it wrong on Weng’an (Fool's Mountain)

- The one-month countdown begins (Reuters)

- With one month to go, IOC says it's time for Beijing to deliver on pollution, free press (CNN)

The IOC is or giving off different signals or media are making up different stories. Rather confusing. - You

- Beijing confident of clean air for Games (AFP)

- IOC hails Beijing "gold standard," China slams critics (Reuters)

- China tightens pre-Olympic airport security in Xinjiang, Tibet (DPA)

- CCTV to broadcast Olympic events live without delay (Xinhua)

Olympic Information Center: links on 8 July (1) (China Herald)