Do you know this man? A global search under way for this mystery owner of SD card lost during 2008 Beijing Olympics


Luo Xia, accidentally took an SD card in an Internet cafe in Beijing where he went to watch the Olympic Games alone in 2008. He posted some of the pictures on mainland social media recently while reminiscing about that time, sparking a hunt for the original owner. — SCMP

A social media post in China reminiscing over the 2008 Beijing Olympics has sparked a worldwide search for the foreign owner of a lost memory card full of images of the man.

According to the original post on Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, a Chinese social networking and ecommerce platform, the poster, Luo Xia, accidentally took the SD card in an Internet cafe in Beijing where he went to watch the Olympic Games alone in 2008.

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