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TAPE: EF01/0527 IN_TIME: 22:28:01 DURATION: 5:27 SOURCES: APTN/IOC RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Moscow - 13 July 2001 SHOTLIST: IOC POOL 1. Wide shot of IOC meeting 2. Mid shot of Samaranch being given envelope with the results 3. Close up of screen 4. Mid shot UPSOUND of Juan Antonio Samaranch, IOC President giving out results (his voice goes over three pictures, fades into delegates room) 5. Wide shot of delegates room, Beijing delegation jumps up APTN 6. Pan mid shot of Beijing delegation celebrating 7. Mid shot of Beijing supporters celebrating 8. Mid shot of Beijing supporter holding the flag 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop "I'm really proud of China. It will be a big big promote for the country to develop in the right direction. So I really happy." 10. Wide shot of Beijing delegates holding up flag 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tu Mingde, Secretary General of Beijing Bidding Committee "It's very simple you see, very happy, very excited, to hear the announcement, Beijing the venue of the 2008 Olympic Games. So really our long dreams after all have come true" 12. Wide shot of Beijing delegation exiting after announcement 13. Mid shot of Mayor of Beijing and the president of the Beijing Committee, Liu Qi, surrounded by journalists 14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Liu Qi, Mayor of Beijing and the president of the Beijing Committee "This result is supported by the Chinese and the State Council. This is the greatest happiness for our people and it is a congratulation to all Chinese people and especially to the people of Beijing." IOC POOL 14. Wide shot of final press conference 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francois Carrard, Director-General of IOC: "It is either to say because of some human rights issues we close the door, we shut the door, we say no, and we deliver a vote which is regarded as sanction in the hope that things evolve better. That's one way to address the issue. It is a highly respectable way. But there is also another way." APTN 16. Wide shot of Beijing delegation cheering 17. Wide shot of IOC officials discussing vote 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ching-Kuo Wu, Taiwanese IOC delegate "I think they realise the Games for China is very very important, because France, Canada, they all hosted the Games before. A Games for them is just another good Games. But for China it's a historical Games." 19. Various police break up pro-Tibet demo 20. Wide shot of pro-Tibet press conference 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ngawang Gelek, Representative of the H.H. The Dalai Lama for Russian Federation, CIS and Mongolia "Today is a dark chapter in the history of the International Olympic Committee." 22. Wide shot of Canadian athletes waiting for result 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, Canadian Athlete "It's awful. It's really hard. It's like losing, and no one wants to, you know?" 24. Mid shot of Toronto bidding committee delegates 25. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Bitove, CEO of Toronto bid "I thank everyone in Toronto and across the country who helped us and said their prayers and kept their fingers crossed, because we really want an Olympic Games in Canada again, we really want them in Toronto again and ... No one doubted that this was the best bid and that the Olympic waterfront is something magical ." 26. Set-up Claude BeBear 27. SOUNDBITE (French) Claude BeBear, President of Paris 2008 "So, we lost, but it is a world of sports, so you have to accept sometimes you loose. When you win, you have to be modest and you have to loose with a smile." 28. Tilt up to close up of Beijing promo bag to mid shot of Beijing official 29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jacques Rogge, Belgium IOC member and candidate for presidency: "I think what made the difference is what I would call the added value of the games, and definitely in this case the majority of the IOC thought that giving the games to a quarter of mankind and opening up China, who has never had the games, to Olympism, would be a big advantage." 30. Various of Chinese residents celebrating outside the Chinese Embassy in Moscow 31. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, Chinese supporter "Olympic Games... welcome to Beijing..." STORYLINE: Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics on Friday, winning the games for the world's most populous country for the first time despite criticism of its human rights record. The International Olympic Committee in Moscow picked China over rival bids from Toronto; Paris; Istanbul, Turkey; and Osaka, Japan. Beijing won on the second round of a secret ballot by receiving 56 votes, three more than a majority. It set off an official celebration of fireworks, songs and flag-waving by thousands of people in Millennium Square in the western part of the Chinese capital. In the trade centre hall where the vote took place, Beijing supporters screamed and pulled out Chinese flags. A banner appeared with the slogan, "Eternal Beijing, Olympic Games, a century dream come true." Beijing was the front-runner throughout the race, even though it drew criticism about its human rights record. IOC members clearly believed the Olympics will open China to the world, improve the human rights situation and speed social and economic reforms. "We are totally aware at the IOC there is one issue on the table ... and that is human rights," IOC director general Francois Carrard said. "Human rights is a very serious issue in the entire world. ... "It is not up to the IOC to interfere in these issue, but we are taking the bet that seven years from now, we sincerely and dearly hope we will see many changes." Beijing's victory came seven years after it lost to Sydney by two votes in the election for the 2000 Olympics. Human rights issue were a factor in that defeat, with memories of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square still fresh.