Photos: Officially-licensed product store in Olympic Village

Inside view of the store in the Olympic Village. (Photo credit: Li Wei/Lei Peng)

Inside the Olympic Village, one of the Beijing 2008 Olympic stores for licensed products sits in the International Zone. It covers a total floor space of several hundred square meters and attracts a large number of international athletes and officials, as it is the only store that offers officially licensed products for Olympic Village residents.

According to the manager, 5,000-6,000 customers shop in the store every day. These visitors include sports stars and dignitaries. The shop offers more than 300 varieties in 11 categories of Olympic licensed products. Garments and souvenir badges are the most popular among athletes. The young shop assistants are kept busy every day, but they feel it a great honor to serve the 2008 Olympic Games.

Athletes wait to in line to pay for their purchases. (Photo credit: Li Wei/Lei Peng)

Doing some shopping (Photo credit: Li Wei/Lei Peng)

Chinese athletes Wang Liqin and Li Xiaodong (Photo credit: Li Wei/Lei Peng)