BEIJING -- The Sun Beach Theme Park was probably not the legacy foremost in the minds of Olympic organizers when they spent billions of dollars building the venues for the 2008 Beijing Games. That didn't seem to bother 5-year-old Liu Lin this week, however, as she buried herself in sand at Chaoyang Park stadium, the site where Olympic medals were won in beach volleyball last August. For China's first time playing host to the Games, organizers were determined to create iconic venues, as the...
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