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Wide of green algae clogging beach2. Various of soldiers removing piles of algae from sea and putting in bags3. Tracking shot of boat, algae in background, at Olympic sailing venue4. Close-up then pull out of boat collecting algae5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of green algae clogging beach\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of soldiers removing piles of algae from sea and putting in bags\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tracking shot of boat, algae in background, at Olympic sailing venue\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up then pull out of boat collecting algae\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of algae on the water, city in background\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of news conference with Chinese sailing team, held at Olympic training base at Qingdao Sailing Marina\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway to members of French sailing team in audience\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zang Aimin, Executive Board Member of BOCOG (Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games)\u003cbr/\u003e\"So we have one most important goal, that is to guarantee 50 square kilometres of ocean for training and competition. So we are putting in tremendous efforts using four methods. As for the seaweed that has already entered, we are cleaning and removing it.  So we are hopeful and confident that we will be able to guarantee that the 50 square kilometres competition space area will be clear and clean by July 15th.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tilt up from marina staff clearing out algae from the dock, to wide of marina\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of staff removing algae, putting it on small boats\u003cbr/\u003e11. Greek sailor up on the mast of small sailing boat\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of two Greek sailors getting ready to go sailing\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andreas Kosuratopoules, Skipper for Greek Sailing Team  \u003cbr/\u003e\"You have a path that you have to follow, and this (algae), because it extends to one kilometre or sometimes 500 metres - you can't escape.  I mean it's around you and you cannot make your proper course.  So to be honest it's a big problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pull out from staff walking by with shopping cart full of seaweed, to American crew member unfurling sail printed with US flag\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close-up of algae in corner of marina \u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium shot of US team member cleaning keel, pan to team member Debbi Kaposi\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Debbie Capozzi, Team member, US Sailing Team \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have raced in many areas which have seaweed, and we use some of the same techniques.  But the difference is sometimes you're doing that once or twice a day, compared to here where we are doing it probably three or four times an hour.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. 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Various of people on the beach near Olympic venue helping to clear algae away\u003cbr/\u003eMassive efforts were under way on Wednesday to clear a large algae bloom on the coast of the Chinese city of Qingdao, the venue for sailing events during the Olympic Games, which is just weeks away, as sailors from all over the world arrive.\u003cbr/\u003eThe algae has smothered one-third of the sea where the world's best sailors are supposed to be competing in less than a month and a half. \u003cbr/\u003eOfficials have mobilised around 10-thousand workers and one thousand boats to clear the blue-green infestation, which covers up to five thousand square miles (13-thousand square kilometres) of sea in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eTrucks and crews have been mobilised in their thousands to move the heavy messy vegetation but officials say it could take weeks to clear the algae away and the games are due to begin in just five weeks.\u003cbr/\u003eEven ordinary citizens, about 10-thousand in all, have joined in the effort along the shore, while more than 1-thousand 200 fishing and other boats hauled it in by net.\u003cbr/\u003eTo host the Olympic sailing events, the Chinese port city of Qingdao moved a massive boat yard, relocated industries and spent about 850 (m) million US dollars on transport links, parks, pollution controls and coastal green belts.\u003cbr/\u003eBlue-green algae blooms when nutrients, sometimes caused by excessive pollution, build up in water.\u003cbr/\u003eChinese officials promised at a news conference on Wednesday that the Olympics competition area, all 50 square kilometres (19 square miles) of it, will be clear of the algae before the Games begin next month. \u003cbr/\u003e\"So we have one most important goal, that is to guarantee 50 square kilometres of ocean for training and competition. So we are putting in tremendous efforts using four methods,\" said Zang Aimin, Executive Board Member of BOCOG (Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games).\u003cbr/\u003e\"As for the seaweed that has already entered, we are cleaning and removing it.  So we are hopeful and confident that we will be able to guarantee that the 50 square kilometres competition space area will be clear and clean by July 15th,\" Aimin added, speaking to AP Television.\u003cbr/\u003eThe sailing teams had already known Qingdao, a charming port on China's east coast, would be a difficult venue due to its gentle winds and strong current, as well as the fog that sometimes keeps teams off the water.\u003cbr/\u003eThen the algae arrived, first detected in the middle of May but recently swelling to stretches of several kilometres long. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have raced in many areas which have seaweed, and we use some of the same techniques.  But the difference is sometimes your doing that once or twice a day, compared to here where we are doing it probably three or four times an hour,\" said Debbie Capozzi, a member of the US sailing team.\u003cbr/\u003e\"You have a path that you have to follow, and this (algae), because it extends to one kilometre or sometimes 500 metres - you can't escape.  I mean it's around you and you cannot make your proper course.  So to be honest it's a big problem,\" said Andreas Kosuratopoules, the skipper of the Greek sailing team.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the bright side, much of the algae is being used by farmers as fertiliser.\u003cbr/\u003eChina has had a number of similar outbreaks in recent years, mostly on inland lakes, largely as a result of severe pollution from industrial sources, farm chemicals and domestic sewage. 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