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The Yellow River, named for the color of its water,flows from the west of China to the east ending at the Yellow Sea. It runs through the Great Wall of China. The great wall of China beegins in the east near the border of North Korea and winds its way to Jiayuguan in the west.There are watch towers every 100 - 200 yards along the wall. They were once lookout posts. Some parts of the wall have crumbled and some sections have been restored. East section winds through moutainus region called the Mongolian Border Uplands. Chinese Comunists haave restored three sections since 1949. These sections are near the east coast outside Beijing in the province of Gansu in north central China near Beijing.

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In Beijing the 2008 Olympics were held there and Olympic swimmer Micheal Phelps Made history. In Micheals first race the 400IM Michael finished first but in the relay the French claimed that they were going to smash the Americans. Phelps was going first but Eaman Sullivan had the lead in the first 2 lanes. Gerit Webergal gave the Americans the lead.Cullen Jones was losing to the French but Lesak made Americans win by 8 one hundredths of a second. In this race the 4X200 freesyle relay this was the first under 7 minutes. The dripe is alive for Micheal Phelps he won first again in the 200 IM. In the 100m butterfly and Phelps and Cavic were facing each athor at the blocks Cavic got off to a good start bu Phelps was strugling to keep up with him Cavic had the lead he 24 flat hes 24 flat a great turn for Phelps hes mixed up in the wash here he comes Crocker is above Phelps Phelps looks like hes passing Crocker Phelps needs to get by cavic does he have enough for the take to get it done he does he gets it done again.The US has never lost this race but they are geting to get a good battle from we expect from team Austalia Persol looks like hes going to lead it off for the United States Hanson and the Americans still had the lead here comes Micheal Phelps with a butterfly lanes for the United States Micheal Phelps was hoping that Lesak would try and hold off sullivan to put away the 8th gold for Phelps Jason lesak is in great position.Just about 30m left for lesak to give Phelps the greatest performans in Olympic history.