Trivia: Cost of tickets scares fans
GUANGZHOU – At the Dragon Boat Lake golf course, there were more security officers than spectators.
The cost of ticket is Y400.
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The coach for each participating sailboat’s third party insurance is $300,000.
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Food and drinks in the media cafeteria may be the same during the last seven days, but there is an abundance of juice, fruits and beer, all for free.
Yili is no longer served, but fresh milk, non-fat milk, yoghurt and other milk-based products have all passed health tests.
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There have been 399 random sampling inspections of food and raw materials.
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Fighting against World No. 2 Hiroyuki Akimoto, and knowing Akimoto had an ankle injury that had placed his participation in the men’s final in doubt, Korea’s top-ranked Wang Ki Chun resisted the temptation to exploit the Japanese judoka’s obvious weaknesses.
Wang lost the final but gained admirers.
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The first anti-doping rule violation in Guangzhou involved judo 81 kg silver medalist Shokir Muminov of Uzbekistan. John Baylon lost in the first round in that division but he was not in the same draw.
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