BEIJING: Beijing organisers took possession of the 3,000 medals for next month's Olympics in a ceremony near Tiananmen Square yesterday, 36 days before the start of the Games.
The medals were the first for an Olympics to be designed by the winners of a public competition and each has a distinctive inlay of jade, which represents beauty, nobility, perfection, power and immortality to the Chinese.
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