I turned on the CBC today to see how Canada's athletes are doing at the Beijing Olympics...
What I saw however, in the example of the marathon runners was a lot of smog. The air quality was so bad you could barely see what was happening at the helicopters followed the marathon runners.
Seems like a bit of a whoops on the Olympic committee's planning stages to pick a city with such horrible air quality. The pollution levels in Beijing, according to China's government, have gone down in recent years, but it is still one of the most polluted and smoggiest cities in the world.
Researchers at Peking University say 25,000 Chinese die of premature deaths in Beijing every year due to pollution levels. Beijing's population of 18 million has 3.5 million vehicles and hundreds of factories which contribute to smog levels.
16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China.
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