In the second part of D J Clark’s series from England he travels north to Leeds where he looks at the preparations for the Chinese pre Olympic training camp. Here he discovers, contrary to much discussion on the Chinese micro blogs, that the athletes will not be based in Leeds for the actual games but rather use the facilities to help them recuperate from their journey to the UK.

By D J Clark & Cecily Liu

Animation: Xu Jiye

Video/Images: D J Clark, LOCOG, London Partners

Producer: Flora Yue

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About D J Clark

D J Clark has worked worldwide as a multimedia journalist for more than 20 years. As well as working for China Daily he runs an MA course in Multimedia journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University and is the Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism in Manila, Philippines.