Ha! Confirmation at last, from Technology Review:

To prevent rain over the roofless 91,000-seat Olympic stadium that
Beijing natives have nicknamed the Bird’s Nest, the city’s branch of
the national Weather Modification Office–itself a department of the
larger China Meteorological Association–has prepared a three-stage program for the 2008 Olympics this August.

First, Beijing’s Weather Modification Office will track the region’s weather via satellites, planes, radar, and an IBM p575 supercomputer,
purchased from Big Blue last year, that executes 9.8 trillion floating
point operations per second. It models an area of 44,000 square
kilometers (17,000 square miles) accurately enough to generate hourly
forecasts for each kilometer.

Then, using their two aircraft and an array of twenty artillery and
rocket-launch sites around Beijing, the city’s weather engineers will
shoot and spray silver iodide and dry ice into incoming clouds that are
still far enough away that their rain can be flushed out before they
reach the stadium.

Finally, any rain-heavy clouds that near the Bird’s Nest will be
seeded with chemicals to shrink droplets so that rain won’t fall until
those clouds have passed over.