Beijing Olympics ticket prices announced

For those of you that are interested in catching some of the Olympics in 2008, you might want to check out the ticket pricing scheme just unveiled today. The Opening and Closing ceremonies will cost at least 200 and 150 yuan, respectively, while the events will go as cheap as 5 yuan for students and 30 yuan for the rest of us. In fact, 58 percent of all tickets will cost less than 100 yuan. Now we just need to find an affordable place to stay or crash while we're there.

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