The BBC’s Jonah Fisher is one of a number of journalists in a heavily monitored party making their way to Everest Base Camp to see the second Olympic Torch begin its assent of the world’s highest mountain. “The second Olympic torch is now at Base Camp ready for the climb. “For whatever reason there is [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Second Olympic Torch is Ready to Climb Everest
Posted in olympic torch, Protests, tagged Beijing Olympics, Dalai, Dalai Lama, Everest, Mount Everest, olympic torch, Tibet on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
China Will Speak to Dalai if Olympic Troubles End
Posted in olympic torch, Protests, tagged Beijing Olympics, Dalai Lama, Everest, Mount Everest, olympic protests, olympic torch, Tibet on 28 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Chinese authorities released a report which seems to have indicated that they will be willing to resume communications with the Dalai Lama. Bob has waited to couple of days for more concrete news on this story, but there has been little. One point that is worth picking out of the Chinese report that broke [...]
Olympic Theme Songs and Videos
Posted in Beijing, Culture, Paralympics, Preparation, Sponsors, tagged Andy Lau, Beijing Olympics, fly together, Olympic Song, olympic theme, Paralympics, S.H.E., Welcome to Beijing on 28 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Shanghaiist has come up trumps this weekend with a showcase of over a dozen songs to have been shortlisted for the honour of the official Beijing Olympics theme song. The songs come from some of the creme de la creme of the Chinese pop world, including Andy Lau (Andy Liu), S.H.E. and numerous participants [...]
The Road to the Beijing Paralympics
Posted in Beijing, London 2012, Paralympics, tagged Beijing, british paralympic association, paralympic games, Paralympics, road to beijing on 24 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Road to Beijing is a phrase many will be familiar this year. But today Bob came across a rather appropriate use of this pun, by the British Paralympic Association (BPA) – www.paralympics.org.uk/RoadToBeijing With nice use of Google maps, the BPA have charted the route from London to Beijing that their athletes, and they are [...]
Olympic Heroes, National Heroes
Posted in Athletes, Culture, Public expectation, tagged Beijing Olympics, lei feng, Liu Xiang, olympic hero, olympics, qiu xiaolong, Yao ming on 21 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
A great story from the Wall Street Journal, via Mary Nicole Nazzaro’s Beijing Olympics Blog about the new role models emerging in Chinese society. The focus is on the switch from the communist role models, of which Lei Feng is the most legendary, to sports stars and internet entrepreneurs, most notably Liu Xiang. “Communist heroes [...]
100 Day Countdown Begins…(10 days early)
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Preparation, tagged 100 day countdown, Beijing Olympics, bird's nest, london mayor, olympic cheerleaders, olympic village on 20 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are just one hundred (and ten) days left before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. Typically highly organised and publicised the 100 day count down for the Beijing Olympics has been announced ten days early. To mark this ‘occassion’ a song has been recorded and released; it includes the voices of 100 [...]
Olympic Torch Protests – Who Says What?
Posted in Athletes, London 2012, Media, olympic torch, Protests, tagged Beijing Olympics, Dalai Lama, ioc, olympic torch, palua radcliffe, Protests, sir steve redgrave, Tibet, torch protests on 11 April 2008 | 14 Comments »
There is no avoiding the Olympic Torch Protests – Bob is beginning to feel like this is the Beijing Olympics Protests Blog – so anyone wanting to read about something else check out the recent stories about Paula Radcliffe, Oscar Pistorius or the Great Firewall. If you are interested on the high-profile comments that have [...]
Paula Radcliffe Offers Olympics a Breath of Fresh Air
Posted in Air pollution, Athletes, Environment, olympic torch, Protests, tagged Air pollution, Beijing Olympics, beijing pollution, haile gabrselassie, olympic torch, olympics, paula radcliffe, pollution, Tibetan protests on 10 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some good news for the IOC and BOGOC this week came like a breath of fresh air after the torment of the torch relay; an athlete announced that pollution in Beijing will not be a big problem. Not just any athlete either, but marathon world record holder, and London Olympic torch bearer, Paula Radcliffe. via [...]
Paris Protests Cut Relay Short
Posted in London 2012, olympic torch, Protests, tagged Beijing Olympics, olympic torch protests, paris protests on 7 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
The protests dogging the Olympic torch relay have followed it to Paris, where disruption sounds worse than London, as do some reports of violence. Via the Independent: “Paris – which claims to be the city which invented human rights – comprehensively outdid London in its anti-Beijing protests. The torch had to be doused for security [...]
