"There are so many concerns to need me. More than 70 advance teams have arrived at the village who will also make preparations for the total 16,000 athletes and officials before the opening ceremony," Deng told Xinhua on mobile when walking to meet some folk artists.

"All of the equipment in MPC is running in good condition," Xu Jicheng, deputy director of the Main Press Center (MPC) said in a hoarse voice. "It is an opportunity for us to test the operation of the media transport system for more and more journalists and photojournalists came in.

"We will adjust the timetable of the media coaches according to the variable actual needs, and officials and engineers from local transport authorities have arrived to adapt the parking lot and pedestrian for extra large number of circulations going to occur during the games," he said.

While, the super powerful air-cooling system in the MPC has made some Chinese journalists freezing. Engineers holding laser temperature measurers cruised the boxes to listen to their needs.

"We will try best to satisfy every demand and will adjust the temperature to a comfortable level, but we have to keep a balance," the engineers said.

The recent haze that has covered Beijing for a few days seems to be the only embarrassment for the organizer, although Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, has revealed there had been 22 days without air pollution from July 1 to 25.

The authority has promised to keep an "eligible" air condition for the Olympic Games which has been a promise made by the Chinese government, adding that it will consider emergency measures by banning more cars and shutting down more factories if the air quality goes down during the games.

Beijing's organizers have also prepared for a special aircraft, satellite and radar to interfere possible rainfalls during the opening ceremony.

Spectators eager for tickets and opening ceremony

The BOCOG announced on Monday that all Olympic tickets in Beijing have been sold out, leaving few for the spectators in some co-hosting cities.

Zhang Jie, a 34-year-old doctor who lived in a community which is less than five minutes walk away from the National Stadium, told Xinhua that his family were so eager to get a ticket to the venue known as the Bird's Nest in which the opening ceremony will be held on August 8.

"As the games approaching, we can even hear the actors performing for the ceremony hailing and some fragment of the music, I can see sometimes the stadium glitters in red and blue since my building is so close to it," Mr. Zhang said.

"The streets and buildings are changing everyday as we witnessed for about seven years, I think when we see your journalists and various Olympic banners hanging on both sides of the road, the Games are coming."

The Bird's Nest, Water Cube and other venues inside and outside Beijing are pre-visited by hundreds of tourists who most of the time took pictures by using them as background views, yet, their insides have been ready for foreground showing ten days later.

(Xinhua News Agency July 29, 2008)