ic committee selected the chinese capital as the 2008 host in friday's vote during juan antonio samaranch's last ioc session as president.the attraction of staging the games in a country which has the world's largest population, as well as huge economic potential, won the ioc's heart.

　　beijing defeated four other bidding cities, including toronto and paris, to secure the country's first-ever olympics. osaka was the first city to go out, and it only took one more round for beijing to win the olympic race.

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