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Chen Fanhong, the first Chinese Miss Internet set off Thursday
for Lausanne, Switzerland to convey to the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) Internet users' support for Beijing's bid to host
the 2008 Olympic Games.
Chen was accompanied by nine representatives of Chinese Internet
users, and they carried with them a compact disc signed by one million
Internet surfers.
Chen said that she will express to IOC President Samaranch on behalf
of millions of Chinese Internet users, the hope that the IOC will
choose Beijing, capital of the most populous nation in the world,
to host the Games.
More than one million people from at home and abroad signed their
names on the disc via the Internet earlier in the year, and the
disk will be kept in the International Olympic Museum.
(Beijing-2008 11/17/2000)
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