As the Olympic countdown reaches hours rather than days before kick-off, speculation about the weather condition become less abstract – will the pollution clear? – and more real – has it or not? However even now the issue of air pollution is a little hazy (apologies); conflicting stories seem and contrasting conditions seem to be [...]
Archive for the ‘Air pollution’ Category
Beijing’s Air Pollution Issue Is As Clear It’s The Skies
Posted in Air pollution, Beijing, Environment, Uncategorized, tagged Air pollution, Beijing Olympics, beijing pollution, olympic pollution, us cycling on 8 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
Paula Radcliffe’s Olympics On A Knife Edge
Posted in Air pollution, Athletes, Environment, Protests, The Games, tagged beijing olympic games, Beijing Olympics, london marathon, marathon, olympic marathon, paula radcliffe on 22 May 2008 | 4 Comments »
Paula Radcliffe has been focussing on very little this year apart from the Beijing Olympics, particularly since missing the London Marathon with a toe injury. But now it appears that another injury may rule out her chances in China too. On Wednesday an MRI scan revealed a stress fracture in her left femur.
Radcliffe’s chances of [...]
Paula Radcliffe Offers Olympics a Breath of Fresh Air
Posted in Air pollution, Athletes, Environment, Protests, olympic torch, 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 the [...]
Pollution puts Gabrselassie out of Beijing marathon
Posted in Air pollution, Athletes, Beijing, Environment, tagged Air pollution, beijing air pollution, beijing marathon, Haile Gebrselassie, marathon world record, olympic marathon on 10 March 2008 | 8 Comments »
The marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie will not compete in this event at the Beijing Olympics, because he fears the impact of Beijing air pollution on his health. The 34-year-old, widely regarded as the best distance runner of all time, suffers from asthma:
“The pollution in China is a threat to my health and it [...]
Beijing International Airport’s New Terminal Takes-off
Posted in Air pollution, Architecture, Beijing, Legacy, Preparation, Protests, tagged beijing airport, Beijing International Airport, beijing terminal, beijing terminal 3, heathrow expansion protest on 3 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beijing International Airport unveiled it’s new terminal (terminal 3) this weekend. This is yet another huge piece of architecture built in time for the Olympic Games this summer. But this is not just any airport terminal (as BBC’s James Reynolds notes):
“It’s more like a small country than an airport terminal. [...]
Heading off-road in search of blue skies
Posted in Air pollution, Beijing, Environment, Preparation, tagged Air pollution, beijing air pollution, Beijing Olympics, beijing traffic, car ban, Environment on 24 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
News reports this week about the Olympics have been dominated by the publication of the plan to keep half of Beijing’s cars off the road for the duration of the Games this summer. The objectives being to reduce congestion and improve air quality.
The NYT has picked up on this with an interesting interview with ‘the [...]
Beijing’s environmental steps forward (and back)
Posted in Air pollution, Beijing, Environment, tagged Air pollution, air quality, Beijing Olympics, Environment, green games, plastic bags, pollution on 9 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
Two articles appeared today that in their conflicting messages seem to epitomise the environmental situation in Beijing leading up the the ‘Green Games‘.
‘Beijing Residents in Environmental Protection‘ reads the headline of an article containing the results of a survey overseen by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA). “The results showed that Beijing had the most [...]
Beijing wins air pollution award(!?)
Posted in Air pollution, Beijing, Environment, tagged Air pollution, air quality, Beijing, boycott, china, olympics, pollution on 5 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today the TIME China blog commented on an announcement by the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau that the city had been “awarded the Special Prize for Improvements to Air Quality and the third prize for Clean Transport”. It doesn’t mention who were on the judging panel…
Perhaps the judges were employing the same policy as teachers who [...]
