Aushang: Verfasst von Wocca (748) am Di, 2005-12-27 17:41. | Betreff: Qingdao and Olympics

Qingdao people have a strong liking for sports. As an athletic and soccer town, it won 345 gold medals, 193 silver medals, and 146 bronze medals in 2002. Seven national records, 10 provincial records and 7 city records were broken last year.

As the host for the 29th Olympic sailing events, Qingdao has begun making overall plans in order to improve the ecological environment, highlight “Green Olympics”, “High-tech Olympics” and “Humanistic Olympics”, and build the city into a green Olympic metropolis with the best sailing facilities in Asia.

http://www.qingdaochina.org/english/Survey/em6_6.htm