An Insider Looks Back at Beijing Olympics

I was lucky enough to cover the 2008 Summer Olympics for NBC and out of the five weeks I spent in China, I think this is the best photo I took. A bolt of lightning over the Bird's Nest as seen from my hotel room window at about 2 a.m. in the early stages of an amazing two-hour storm.

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