Beijing, China - 21 February 2001
1. IOC evaluation commission chairman Hein Verbruggen walking past camera and shaking hands with President Jiang Zemin
2. Cameramen, pan to another IOC delegate Simon Balderstone shaking hands with Jiang
3. Jiang posing with IOC delegation
4. Group photo
5. Chinese Olympic bid delegates seated, pan to Pres. Jiang and Mr. Verbruggen seated
6. Pres. Jiang speaking with Verbruggen in English
7. Verbruggen talking
8. Jiang and Verbruggen seated
9. IOC delegation leaving Beijing hotel
10. Wide shot of bus
11. Delegates standing next to scale model of stadium complex, with UPSOUND of IOC delegate saying "How many seats?" and Chinese guide responding "This is 7,000 seats."
12. Walking shot of delegates entering stadium with handball game in progress and sound of shouting and applause
13. Verbruggen and another IOC delegate speaking, pan to handball court with players
14. Verbruggen listening to another IOC delegate speaking
15. Wide shot of exterior of stadium
16. Verbruggen walking from building with Chinese guide, pullout to wide of walking
17. IOC delegates boarding bus
18. Crowd around bus
19. Tiananmen Square with guard at attention
20. Police matching on square
21. History museum with people on Square
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Sixteen members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were greeted by Chinese president Jiang Zemin on the first of their four-day inspection visit to Beijing.
The Chinese capital hopes to convince the IOC delegates that Beijing is their best possible choice to host the Olympic games in 2008.
The Olympic inspectors got off to a positive start Wednesday with praise for Beijing's on- paper proposals to host the 2008 Games.
Hein Verbruggen, head of the inspection team, said its members were "happy" with the city's official bid report.
But he urged officials to be ready for "straightforward questions" on matters ranging from stadiums to transportation to air quality.
The IOC city survey is a key moment for Beijing's drive to land the world's most prestigious sporting event.
New anti-graft rules bar International Olympic Committee members from visiting bid cities, so voting members who pick the winning city this summer will rely heavily on the inspection team's findings.
Beijing's rivals are Paris, Istanbul, Osaka, and Toronto.
In the afternoon, delegates and reporters were loaded onto separate buses, then driven off in convoy with their way apparently cleared by traffic police.
A Beijing bid committee official briefed IOC delegates using a model of the Olympic Green, the 12 square kilometer park space where the main venues will be located.
At the National Olympic Sports Center delegates and were taken to the recently refurbished combined sports hall where two middle school teams were playing handball in a citywide competition.
Beijing has put on its best face for the visit.
Lawns are dyed green in mid-winter, roadsides adorned with flowers and urban grime scrubbed away.
Security has been tightened.
Relatives of imprisoned democracy activists who asked to meet the commission members said Tuesday they were being followed by police.
Security was tight on Tiananmen Square Wednesday, the scene of frequent protests by the outlawed Falun Gong meditation group.
But so far, there have been no reports of Falun Gong protests during the IOC visit.
