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Tickets still available for Olympic Games in Shanghai

This week, we headed to the Olympic football stadium (the Shanghai indoor stadium, to be exact), just to have a look. We ended up buying tickets for the evening's football game: Norway vs. Japan (women's preliminaries). OK, so we hadn't really expected... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Tue, Aug 12 2008

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