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• July 25: Police strain to keep the crowd behind a fence while they wait to buy tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in Beijing, China. Thousands of people waited overnight and some waited since Wednesday for a chance to buy tickets.
• July 25: People wait in line to buy tickets for the next month's Olympic Games near a ticket office in Beijing, China.
• July 25: A Chinese paramilitary police officer, right, helps a man cool off outside a ticket office in Beijing, China. The man was waiting in line to buy tickets to next month's Olympic Games.
• July 25: Police officers stand on duty as people line up to buy tickets for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Thousands waited overnight for a chance at the last batch of Olympic tickets, which went on sale Friday morning.
• July 25: Police officers take a man away after he was suspected of cutting the line while waiting to buy tickets for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
• July 25: Beijing police strain to keep the crowd behind a fence while they wait to buy tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Beijing.
• July 25: A woman uses an umbrella to shield herself from the sun as others wait in line to buy tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
• July 25: A man displays the tickets he bought for the Olympic Games outside a ticket office in Beijing.
• July 25: A woman argues with police as a crowd waits to buy tickets to next month's Olympic Games.