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Wed 07 Jul 2007Blue-sky thinking from China promises cloud-free OlympicsThe news may raise a few sceptical eyebrows in an Ireland still reeling from weeks of rain, but Chinese meteorologists have promised perfect weather for next year's Beijing Olympics. They plan to blast any dark, ominous clouds with rockets to ensure only blue skies greet the world's athletes.Beijing's Olympic organisers are pragmatic people with a can-do kind of attitude and that extends to controlling the weather. The Chinese have been saying for years that they are not worried about it raining on their parade, which starts at 8pm on the eighth day of the eighth month, 2008, even though August is the rainy season in normally tinder-dry Beijing.