BOCOG Media Operations Department Director Sun Weijia, shown here, said BOCOG will provide virtual intranet transmission services for the media covering the Beijing Olympic Games.

In addition, he said, wireless wide-band technology will also be put to use during the Olympic Games. Journalists will thus be able to send their reports to their headquarters directly from the stands without being wired up to a television. Only a journalist will wholly realize what a blessing this is.

The service will be linked with the Olympic INFO system to support download so that facts can be cross-checked before the story is filed.

In one sense BOCOG will provide the same service platform for the media as the previous Olympic Games. However, the media will be accessing services of much, much higher levels as a result of rapid development of net communication technology.

BOCOG fully studied the practice of the previous Olympic Games, and sent its staff to experience media operations during the Athens and Turin Olympic Games. And then took it all several steps further.

BOCOG has hired a considerable number of foreign specialists in media operations. About 5% of the 500 people involved in media operations are foreigners, and some 10% of the 2,000 volunteers are foreigners.

The Beijing Olympics are expected to attract 21,600 accredited media from all over the world.
Source: Beijing 2008