BOCOG’s executive vice president Jiang Xiaoyu told reporters Friday that the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) has been given the largest-ever press accreditation quotas for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
While refusing to give the exact number he said, “compared to Athens 2004, there will be a considerable increase in COC’s press quotas for Beijing 2008 as China plays host to the Games”.
According to BOCOG the overall press quotas for the Beijing Games has been capped at 5,600, the same as for Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
The People’s Daily reports that the two-stage accreditation process, involving the Press by Number process followed by the Press by Name process, will start in March when BOCOG distributes the Press by Number forms to all Olympic Committees, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said last year.
