HONG KONG, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong was awarded the right to co-host the equestrian events of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on July 8, 2005, leaving the southern Chinese special administrative region with about three years to get prepared. With only two weeks to go before the opening of the Olympics on Aug. 8, the city was now simmering with Olympic zest over the past three years. "We are ready," singers said in a song celebrating the one-year countdown to the start of the Olympic Games. The line has often been quoted by local sports officials to tell the world that Hong Kong was ready, citing their state-of-the-art facilities. New venues were built and some of existing facilities for horseracing were converted to Olympic uses, with air-conditioned stables to accommodate the competing horses during the Olympics and...
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