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InterContinental Beijing Is the Official Hangout of Olympic Journalists

Where: 11 Financial St., Xi Cheng, Beijing, China, 100140

Ever wonder what all those journalists are doing over in Beijing while they're covering the Olympics? No? Well, we did. And it turns out: they're all chillin' at the InterContinental Hotel, which is attached to the Olympic Main Press Center.

An IndyStar.com correspondent described the scene:

Our hub is the Main Press Center, which is effectively its own city. It has a bank, post office, general store, merchandise store, barber shop, cafeteria, transportation desk, exercise room, lockers, showers and library.

It is attached to the Intercontinental Hotel, and an easy path to the venues is through the pristine lobby.

So, like, every journalist covering the Olympics is just walking through the lobby of the hotel? Surely with those long hours covering even the boring stuff like trap shooting or badminton, all those reporters are in sunshine-y moods. Party time at the Intercontinental.