China busing in government-trained "cheer squads" to fill empty seats at Olympics

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8-13-2008 @ 5:46PM

Eva said...

Yup, spotted some at a boxing event a few days ago! The t-shirts read "Beijing Workers for Cheering", and they even have a "conductor" type who leads them in organized cheers. Funny thing is, no one else is allowed noisemakers.

You can see my take on the cheer squads here:
http://www.worldhum.com/weblog/item/in_beijing_three_cheers_for_cheers_20080811/

Word on the street in Beijing was, even the events that it's impossible to get tickets to (swimming, swimming and swimming) aren't full. So there must be a load of people who *have* tickets, but aren't using them.

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