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Morning swimming finals set for Beijing
(newsphoto)
Updated: 2006-10-27 13:25
International Olympic Committee (IOC) coordination commission
chairman VerBruggen Hein attends the press conference in Beijing. The
swimming finals and much of the gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be
held in the morning in order to satisfy the needs of host broadcaster NBC who
paid U.S.$3.55 billion for rights to the 2000-2008 Games,says IOC Ocotober
26,2006. Those prestigious events will be aired at peak-time in the United
States by NBC. The competition schedule had finally been agreed by the
IOC's executive board "after a thorough consultation process",according to
Hein.[newsphoto] 
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