I was just in Bejing last week. I’ve never seen anything like the pollution there. We had clear days. And we still couldn’t see the sky. Just a vague outline where the sun was. Buildings a quarter mile away simply vanished into the haze. Any American who complains about our air should spend an hour in that dump. Can’t imagine that air as horrible as that in Bejing is good for the Olympic athletes. I’d hate to have to run a marathon in it thats for sure.
China is the only place that I’ve traveled where my eyes burn when I wake up in the morning.
The air smells like you’re standing next to a diesel bus exhaust pipe at all times. Clouds of pollution roll across the parking lot like fog.
I had to close my bedroom window at night (sleeping in my wife’s parents house) because it smelled like a tractor trailer was parked outside pumping exhaust into my room.
You can smell cars that pass for several minutes as they spray choking pollution into the air.
I don’t see how anyone can compete athletically in China.