With one month to the beginning of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the local organising committee rehearsed the award medal ceremony in a venue next to the Bird's Nest National Stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies will take place. The Chinese capital on February 4-20 will become the first host of a Winter and Summer Olympics, having staged the Games in 2008, seen then as a coming-out party for what has since become the world's second-largest economy. IMAGES