Aug 29
Swimming at the Water Cube
Good news for those who were disappointed to discover tickets to the Paralympic swimming events have already sold out. An article in today’s Beijing News quotes a spokesperson from the Olympic ticketing center as saying that it’s likely that more tickets to events at the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube will be made available in the next few days. Maybe the appearance of extra tickets has something to do with the 350,000 “spectators” that were being brought in to make sure that there were no empty seats at events?
In even more exciting news Xinhua reports, not only will the Bird’s Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park be opened up to tourists during the upcoming National Day Holidays, but, by the end of the year, we’ll all be able to go swimming at the Water Cube. Vice Mayor of Beijing Chen Gang was quoted as saying that the Water Cube will be turned into an aquatic amusement park that will be open by the end of the year.
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