It got crazy in Beijing on Friday when a horde of fans showed up to buy the remaining 820,000 tickets for Olympic events, and it got testy between police and journalists. This from The Wall Street Journal…

A last-minute sale of Olympics tickets in Beijing turned into sometimes violent confrontations between police and several Hong Kong reporters, raising new questions about how Chinese authorities will treat the thousands of journalists coming for next month’s Games.

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Here’s a video taken before the problems arose with people camping out long in advance to try to get tickets.

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