BEIJING — As the opening date for the 2012 London Olympics draws nearer, Chinese visitors to the 2008 Olympic sites in Beijing say that for them, the most important lasting legacy of those games is a sense of national pride.
Chinese people celebrated the 2008 Beijing Olympics as their country’s coming out party. Nearly four years later, that spirit is still alive and well among a steady stream of visitors to the Olympic sites, including Xu Jing, a real estate agent from Guangxi.
“Look at this place. The fact that there are so many people coming to take a look - this was China presenting itself, this was China becoming a big power and showing itself to the rest of the world," she said.
