the announcement, read out by the 81-year-old samaranch, was answered with wild jubilation from the chinese delegation in moscow, and with fireworks in beijing.ioc senior member kim un-yong said after the voting that beijing deserved the olympic games.
"beijing is capable of staging a great olympic games," said the 71-year-old south korean. "the result wasn't a surprise to me."
with the motto "new beijing, great olympics", beijing promises to host a "green olympics", a "hi-tech olympics" and the "people's olympics".
the 3,000-year-old city is becoming a truly international city and showing a new, vigorous image through its ongoing economic reforms.
beijing enjoys the widest popular support among the five bidding cities. a gallup opinion poll commissioned by the government showed 94.9 percent of the public in favor of it. the ioc's own surveys found supp