When you are not flying Business Class on a 9 hour night flight is not giving you the best of rests... But we arrived on time at the impressive Beijing Int. Airport, they are definitely ready to receive the masses of the Olympic Games in August. Perfect sign guiding, spacious terminals, effective passport control and fast bagage delivery helped us get through the vast airport in just 30 minutes. All good except for one little hurdle... Customs!
Arriving with several huge boxes including radios, time keeping equipment, medical equipment and other nescessities for a marathon of course wakes the attention of customs and although all the papers have been checked and confirmed a thousand times from home it still isn't always enough... So the 30 minutes suddenly grew till 4½ hours before we could leave the airport, still leaving a few things behind waiting for final clearance...

The Danish Athletic Federation Team and Officials went directly to Huangyagun to start setting up the route and preparing for Inspection Day tomorrow (Thursday). They will be joined by the Medical Team later today as well as the Photo Team. The bulletins from the Wall states that everything is under control. I will go tomorrow and check it out for myself along with all the runners who are going for the inspection of the route.

Today the remaining runners will arrive while those on the longer itineraries are on sightseeing in Beijing. Here they can see that the city is getting ready for the Olympics although there is still a lot of construction going on, but compared to last year they have come a long way.

As mentioned a couple of times, tomorrow is Inspection Day and this is when the runners start realising what they have actually got themselves in to...