This is one of the final posts on the Beijing Olympics Blog – the experiment is coming to an end, and to be honest, since getting back from China Bob has found it hard to summon up the time and enthusiasm to keep posting. To sign off it’s time to review the Beijing Olympics and [...]
Archive for the ‘Censorship’ Category
Lessons for London from the Beijing Olympics
Posted in Beijing, Censorship, Culture, Legacy, London 2012, Preparation, Public expectation, Tickets, tagged 2012, 2012 olympics, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, London 2012, london olympics on 1 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Relaxed Press Freedoms Pass With The Beijing Games
Posted in Censorship, Legacy, Protests, tagged Beijing Olympics, beijing paralympics, press freedom, press restrictions on 22 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Put in place prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and due to end roughly a month after the Paralympics, the measures to afford greater independence to foreign reporters in China are about three weeks from ending. Now there is speculation about whether these freedoms will continue at all, or whether the rules will return to [...]
Olympic Security – Knives, bombs and the Welsh Dragon
Posted in Censorship, Protests, tagged beijing olympcis, olympic security, olympics, Tibet on 26 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
Queuing up to pass through one of the many security check points at the Olympics on one occasion there was a recording being played over the PA system: “Flags of non-participating countries and regions, and sharp objects are not permitted into the Olympic Green”. At first this seemed like a strange combination – why should [...]
Search Engine Suggests Chinese Gymnast is Underage
Posted in Athletes, Censorship, Media, tagged Beijing Olympics, chen ruolin, chinese gymnastics, chinese gymnasts, gymnastics, gymnasts, he kexin, olympic gymnastics, olympic gymnasts, stryde on 26 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
The latest controversy associated with the Chinese government and the Beijing Olympics has been to do with the age of their gymnasts, and specifically gold medal-winning He Kexin (何可欣). Allegations have suggested that Miss He was born in 1994, meaning that she is too young to compete in the Olympics (16 years or older), while [...]
Chasing the Gold Rush Around Beijing
Posted in Athletes, Beijing, Censorship, Media, The Games, Tickets, Track and Field, World Records, tagged 2008 Olympics, 400m, Beijing Olympics, bmx, bradly wiggins, british gold medals, chris hoy, christine ohuruogu, cycling, germain mason, laoshan, olympics, shanaze reade, victoria pendleton on 22 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the rain poured down in Beijing on Thursday it seemed like a good opportunity to stay in and catch up on some blogging – unfortunately Bob’s internet connection disagreed, and would not allow this post. Trying again now, on Friday. It has been difficult to fit in posts, around ticket-hunting, sport-watching, exploring Beijing and [...]
Gaming for Change – Guest Post
Posted in Censorship, Guest Posts, Legacy, Media, Protests, tagged 1988 olympics, 2008 Olympics, Beijing, china, olympics and politics, south korea on 6 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
Guest post by Jordan Hirsch In mid–March, several days of peaceful demonstrations against Chinese rule exploded into violent rioting in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. On March 17th, as China engaged in the bloodiest period of its crackdown against the protestors, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge circulated an internal memo to IOC officials, outlining [...]
Beijing Olympics Blog from… Shanghai
Posted in Beijing, Censorship, Media, Uncategorized, tagged amnesty, beijing 2008, beijing olympic games, Beijing Olympics, Censorship, great firewall of china, olympic volunteers, shanghai, tiananmen square, volunteers on 5 August 2008 | 5 Comments »
Bob is delighted to be writing the Beijing Olympics Blog from China; admittedly not Beijing, but one step at a time. Unfortunately getting here has meant that it’s been a quiet time on the blog recently just the media has been full of enough Olympic news to satisfy the most eager observe. Bob would like [...]
