Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.
“My older sisters played,” says Rice, recalling what gave her the badminton bug. “Of course anything they were doing I had to do, too. It was clear I was passionate and basically fell in love with the game. But you wouldn’t have called me a natural.
Shops lining Wednesday’s torch route were shuttered and police stood guard on every street corner. Soldiers and firefighters patrolled the main square of a city seen as the heart of Islam in China’s oil-rich border region of Xinjiang.
