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With less than two weeks to go before the Olympic Games, Beijing is absolutely swamped by smog. Yeah, I can hardly believe it either. How could the the most polluted city on earth possibly be smoggy?Visibility was a half mile in some places in the city. During the opening ceremony of the Athletes' Village on Sunday, the housing complex was invisible from the nearby main Olympic Green. Naturally the IOC is thrilled.
"No, it doesn't really look so good," said Gunilla Lindberg, an International Olympic Committee vice president from Sweden who is staying in the Athletes' Village. "The day I arrived, Tuesday, was awful."But fear not, just because its pretty much beyond likely that every athlete and spectator will be sucking down smog during the Games doesn't mean you can't do it while staring at a fake crystal clear skyline.
What?
Yes, in a move that rivals all the weird stuff China has done in preparation for these Olympics (forced cheering, toilets that pop out of the ground, shooting missiles into the sky to control the weather) authorities have put posters up all over Beijing that show crystal clear skies in some lame attempt I guess to fool people.
See for yourself.
Well, I'm convinced, even though I'd still be hacking up a lung in the process. And I'm sure that if its horribly smoggy during the Olympics, these posters will totally fool everyone. Or not.
Beijing covers up the gray [CNN]
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