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Having pulled over a million cars off the streets, shutting down factories and launching rockets skyward to germinate clouds to repel smog, Jinping would stop at nothing to ensure the highest level of approval of the Beijing games. In addition to creating favorable conditions for the games, Jinping also managed to quell the masses of human rights activists and political protests staged at the games. 

There are however, a number of "scandals" pending in which all the propaganda in the world couldn't prevent, such as the lip synching at the opening ceremony, the underage female gymnastics team as well as judging inconsistencies. Granted, you can almost always count on one scandal or another at the quadrennial event, but when gymnasts don't even appear old enough to have ever even needed acne products, questions are bound to arise.

Despite everything else, the Beijing Olympics were an incredible success and the host nation should be proud of its hard work. The bar has clearly been raised, it will be interesting to see how London does as a host city in 2012.