Tiananmen Square

Action in the Games' 28 sports will stretch from this 2,800-acre complex, five miles north of Tiananmen Square, to the equestrian venue in Hong Kong, more than 1,200 miles to the south

As part of its bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing organizers have designated Tiananmen Square—site of the Chinese government's brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989—as the beach volleyball...