Free Access in the Forbidden Village – if not City
South China Morning Post reported yesterday that the Olympic Village in Beijing wins praise for comforts – including some bizarre twists. You, if lucky enough to be permited stepping into this forbidden village (video), will find many exciting things: free access to those blocked websites including BBC Chinese network, the online sites of Taiwanese newspapers like Liberty Times, and Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, and you will even find an entire shelf of photo albums featuring nude Chinese women in the bookstore.
That’s terrific. I guess the reason of this considerate arrangement is: the athletes and their coaches will be surely under a great pressure during the Olympics, so it is a necessity for them to relax when they go back to the Olympic village. Therefore, since an Australian therapist who has been to four Olympics had not expected something like this in the bookshop of an Olympic village, these nude pictures must be, again, one of the plausible creativity of our great Beijing 2008.