Iced tea at the Beijing Olympics?

It's hot in Beijing these days and likely to stay that way through next month's olympics. Olympic officials plan to serve a tea drink to volunteers to keep them cool, the English language site Window of China reports: Millions of volunteers will battle high temperatures during the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics. Fortunately for them, the volunteers will be able to use traditional Chinese tea to cool themselves, thanks to the Chinese Traditional Medicine Association.
The website shows a pitcher of tea described as containing honeysuckle, ebony, green tea. The "ebony" could be a translation issue from black tea, which is sometimes called red tea, although aged teas such as pu-er and liubao seem to be called black tea. The ebony tree is not native to China and is probably not part of the traditional medicine. Good for piano keys though.
I wonder whether they'll serve them over ice, or just chilled? Iced tea is a Western concept. I've never seen it served in China. Bottles of sweetened green tea are the rage, however. I'll try to track down a taste of the Olympic honeysuckle tea on my trip there in September.

Chinese tea in mental health study

A study in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that older ethnic Chinese residents of Singapore who drank tea regularly suffered less mental impairment and decline than non-tea drinkers. This article on the study doesn't narrow down the teas too much, but says they were drinking black and oolong teas, including some non-Chinese teas. Interestingly, the tea drinkers were more socially and physically active, less often depressed, and here's the kicker: also drank more alcohol. Since alcohol is a depressant and at least a temporary source of mental impairment, it makes me wonder how sharp these senior tea drinkers would be if they laid off the sauce. Or maybe they drink the tea to fight the hangover.
Seriously, it's another study showing the health benefits of tea. And this time, it's not green tea getting the good press.