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　　Official announces "Beijing is ready" in hours countdown to Olympics
　　BEIJING Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- With less than 10 hours to the long-expected Beijing Olympic Games, an organizing official announced here that "Beijing is ready."
　　With fluent English, Wang Wei, executive vice president and secretary-general of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games (BOCOG), said at a press conference: "Today is a big day for Beijing and China. The Beijing Olympic Games starts from today. I will say that we are ready and Beijing is ready."
　　Firstly, the infrastructure including sports venues and media venues are ready. Second, people in the city are ready. The large number of volunteers for the Games and people in the whole city are ready to host the friends from all over the world, Wang said.
　　Altogether 37 competition venues, 87 training venues and six related facilities have all been put into operation. Athletes’ enrollment and qualification examination have been completed. A total of 11,438 athletes on behalf of 205 national and regional Olympic committees will participate in the Beijing Games.