'Water Cube' hosts first test event
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-02-01 20:57
A volunteer dressed as a Beijing 2008 Olympic Games mascot stands outside the National Aquatics Centre, nicknamed the "Water Cube", during the Good Luck Beijing 2008 Swimming China Open in Beijing January 31, 2008. The Olympic venue for swimming, diving and synchronised swimming at the Beijing Games opened with a test event on Thursday allowing the Chinese capital's residents to ponder the ethereal cuboid structure at close range for the first time. [Agencies]
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