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Today I saw this news, he was the marathon record holder, and he got asthma. He told the reporter he would still compete in Beijing Olympics but not in marathon, because he thought Beijing’s air pollution may harmful to his health.

Actually, many other athletes and spectators are worrying about this; I don’t know how the government solves this problem, whether it can reach the IOC’s standard within next few months. But the truth is the pollution still increasing and growing. The interesting thing is, many Chinese think those foreigners are too serious, they seem a little funny, because for Chinese who lives here for half of their life, almost ignore this problem, they don’t consider it as a problem. I once saw a picture in The Economist, on which many Chinese are flying their kites happily, but that is a cloudy day, the sky was full of feculent smog. Terrible thing is people are already get used to it, they are not aware that Beijing‘s air pollution is so bad. How to they make a change if normal people do not take it seriously?

With the Olympics are near its corner, all quick solution seems vein, and that is why foreigners scare about it. This brought me the memory of my hometown. I was born in Shanxi Province, in the north part of China, which is the home of coal. The whether in my hometown is even worse than in Beijing, so one of the Japanese company’s manager said that he could not find my hometown in the satellite, because of our severe pollution.

 I hope there will be more people aware of this problem, and try every meant to eliminate it.