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Olympic Tickets Unveiled
A ticketing
staffer displays sample tickets for the Beijing 2008
Olympic Games in Beijing,April 23, 2008.
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX
Olympiad (BOCOG) unveiled the sample tickets with the
"lucky cloud" and the Bird's Nest designs at a news
conference on Wednesday.
The third round of ticket selling is scheduled to kick off
on May 5.
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