2008北京奥运会相关知识的英文介绍，如建筑、开幕式等等

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Beijing National Stadium, or bird's nest, will be the central location for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The government received many entrees for design. Thirteen designs were showcased in Beijing for public vote. Of those, three designs entered the final competition. The design from a Swiss-based architecture firm that collaborated with China's Institute of Architecture Design and Research won. While most comments are positive, some residents feel it seems "messy and incomprehensible." Another worrisome item was the "disproportionate" cost of the retractable roof, which would have taken up one-eight of the total cost. They decided to omit that feature.

It's nick-name "bird's nest" came from the media who felt that it did indeed look like a birds nest. This look is caused by curved steel-net walls that function to integrate the stairs, walls and roof into one system. The stadium covers and area of over 140,000 square mete