Yao Ming has returned from injury to compete for the first time in 5 months just weeks ahead of the Olympic Games in his home country. However in the same week the groups for the Olympic basketball competition have been announced and Yao’s China team will face an extremely strong line up to qualify for [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Yao Bounces Back But China Face Basketball Battle
Posted in Athletes, Culture, The Games, tagged basketball, olympic basketball, Yao ming on 24 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Will Security Suffocate The Olympic Spirit? – Guest Post
Posted in Beijing, Guest Posts, Legacy, Media, Protests, olympic torch, tagged Beijing, beijing 2008, Beijing Olympics, beijing security, chinese security, olympic protests, olympic security, Tibet, Tibetan protests on 21 July 2008 | 7 Comments »
Few people would argue that China is controversial choice of host country for the 2008 Olympics – something the Chinese government are only too aware of. With high profile protests greeting the Olympic torch’s global relay and rioting in various western provinces by ethnic Tibetans there is a very real threat of unrest spoiling the [...]
Olympic Online Game That’s Building International Communities
Posted in Culture, Media, Sponsors, Uncategorized, tagged arg, Beijing Olympics, lost ring wiki, meihui, olympic game, the lost ring on 15 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Lost Ring is a brand new ARG (which apparently stands for Alternative Reality Game) centred around the Beijing Olympics and jointly sponsored by the IOC and one of the 2008 Games’ official partners.
Bob is no expert in ARG’s and was informed about The Lost Ring by a colleague (thanks Liz), so decided to do [...]
Congratulations to the British Olympic Team!
Posted in Athletes, Track and Field, tagged athletics, Beijing Olympics, boa, british athletes, british olympic association, british olympic team on 14 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today the British Olympic Team to compete in Beijing this summer was announced by the British Olympic Association. This news has been overshadowed somewhat by uncertaintly surrounding Dwain Chambers and Paula Radcliffe, but at this stage let’s just extend congratulations and lots of luck to the team. View the full team here.
Beijing’s New Face – Olympic Architecture
Posted in Architecture, Beijing, Culture, Legacy, tagged Architecture, beijing architecture, bird's nest, national aquatics center, national stadium, olympic architecture, water cube on 14 July 2008 | 4 Comments »
Beijing is a city reshaped, and the 2008 Olympic Games will leave a lasting impact on the landscape of one of the most historic cities in the world. Coming at a time of huge economic growth and large-scale
rural-urban migration (legitimate and unofficial) the Olympics has come as a spur for adventurous architecture on an ambitious [...]
Taiwan’s Olympic Name – Chinese Taipei or China’s Taipei?
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Protests, Public expectation, olympic torch, tagged china, chinese olympics, chinese taipei, olympic games, olympic protests, olympic torch, olympics, taipei 101, taiwan, zhongghu taipei, zhongguo taibei, zhongguo taipei, zhonghua taibei on 13 July 2008 | 8 Comments »
Attending an Olympic Games hosted by China was always going to throw up some interesting challenges for the Taiwanese team, and the China’ Taiwan Affairs office have decided to spice things up. The controversy revolves around the name that Taiwan competes under at the Olympics…
The situation is this: in 1989 China and Taiwan agreed that [...]
Beijing Olympic Anti-Terrorism Exercises
Posted in Legacy, Preparation, Protests, Public expectation, olympic torch, tagged anti-terrorism, Beijing Olympics, beijing terrorism, chinese military, chinese police, olympic preparations, olympic terrorism, olympic torch on 10 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week the Boston Globe has a collection of photos from various anti-terrorism exercises and demonstrations (thanks to Rachel for pointing this out). A number of these come from “a week-long series of anti-terrorist drills called “Great Wall 5″, in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games”, so the Globe claims.
Although this may just be [...]
Epic Wimbledon Battle Boosts Beijing Significance
Posted in Athletes, London 2012, Public expectation, The Games, tagged beijing 2008, Beijing Olympics, federer, nadal, olympic tennis, olympics, rafael nadal, roger federer, tennis, wimbledon, wimbledon 2008, wimbledon final on 6 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post is being written from SW19 where today Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer made history, beautifully.
It is four years until Wimbledon will be an Olympic venue, but today the most famous tennis club in the world played host to a such exhibition of sporting excellence that the Greek Gods themselves would have struggled to [...]
