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Continued Protests Plague Beijing Olympics

NPR

By Tom Goldman,

Lynn Neary

Published April 13, 2008 at 8:00 AM EDT

Chinese officials are swinging back after a week of heated protests over their country's hosting of the upcoming summer games. NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman talks with guest host Lynn Neary about how protests are shaping the image of the Beijing Olympics and about an upcoming meeting of Olympic athletes in Chicago.

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Tom Goldman is NPR's sports correspondent. His reports can be heard throughout NPR's news programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and on NPR.org.

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Lynn Neary is an NPR arts correspondent covering books and publishing.

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