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One-year countdown celebration 
  
 Updated: 2007-08-08 20:25 
  
 
Let the party begin. The Beijing Olympics are just a year away. 
 
Sprawling Tiananmen Square was the center of celebrations for thousands of ordinary Chinese and hundreds of Olympic officials as countdown clocks across Beijing reach the one-year mark. 
 
The magic moment came at 8:08 p.m.and 8 seconds,marking one year until next year's opening ceremony on August 8, 2008. 
 
The host city of Beijing invited the world to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a dazzling song-and-dance and fireworks display. 
  
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Fireworks are lit up beside the Tiananmen Gate during a ceremony to mark the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing August 8, 2007. The Games begin on August 8, 2008. [Reuters] 
 
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