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Daily pollution tests for Beijing Olympics, says IOC head

A monitoring system will check every day whether air pollution warrants delaying events at next years Games, Reuters reported Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee chief, as saying on Thursday.
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Endurance events like the marathon could be delayed by a few hours or until another day, according to pollution levels, Rogge was quoted as saying.
"Together with the Chinese we are setting up a whole series of test sites, more than 20 in Beijing will give us information online," Rogge said.