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 [...]
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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 »
Beijing Bids Goodbye To The Paralympians
Posted in Beijing, Culture, Legacy, London 2012, Media, Paralympics, tagged beijing 2008, beijing paralympics, british athletics, closing ceremony, London 2012, paralympic games on 18 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Beijing Paralympics wrapped up yesterday with yet another spectacular ceremony at the wonderful Bird’s Nest stadium giving delirious athletes a chance to say goodbye after an extremely successful Games. Sounds like a similar story to four weeks ago when the Olympics ended on a high – we were even treated to another show of [...]
Bye Bye Beijing
Posted in Architecture, Beijing, Culture, London 2012, Paralympics, tagged 2008 Olympics, 2008 paralympcis, beijing 2008, Beijing Olympics, beijing paralympics, London 2012, london olympics, Paralympics on 29 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Olympics are over, and most of the athletes have returned home to be paraded in front of adoring crowds. Now it is Bob’s turn to do the same (minus the crowds), back in Shanghai again now and the UK tomorrow.
However this is not the end of the events in Beijing, or the Beijing Olympics [...]
Opening Ceremony – Top 10 moments
Posted in Beijing, Culture, Legacy, London 2012, Preparation, Public expectation, tagged 2008 opening ceremony, beijing olympcis, beijing opening ceremony, drums, li ning, olympic opening ceremony, olympic pictures, opening ceremony on 11 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
The general concensus appears to be that it was a truely spectacular opening ceremony (and no need to any fears of upset).
Bob watched the whole ceremony with friends, and here are out selection of the top 10 moments:
10 – The sea of printing blocks – representing the creation of printing in China – that [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Olympic Flame Ghosts Through Xinjiang
Posted in Culture, Media, Protests, olympic torch, tagged Beijing, Beijing Olympics, beijing olympics games, james reynolds, kashgar, olympic flame, olympic torch, torch relay, uighur, urumqi, xinjiang on 19 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Olympic torch is continuing it’s path to back to Beijing via every province in China, and the most recent legs have been passing through the country’s largest province, Xinjiang. However the atmosphere of the relay appears to have been unusually quiet, as many local people have been told to stay away. There has been [...]
Olympic Rap – Beijing welcomes you back
Posted in Beijing, Culture, Just for fun, Uncategorized, tagged beijing hip hop, beijing welcomes you, dj phat, dragon tongue squad, in three, kirby li, olympic hip hop, olympic rap, Olympic Song, suki mok on 17 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve heard the songs, now check out the Beijing Olympics Rap ‘Beijing welcomes you back’, by local group In Three.
From track & field to swimming/
From the Bird’s Nest (National Stadium) to the Watercube (National Aquatics Center)/
China’s people are realizing an Olympic Dream/
Participating determinedly, achieving victory/
Winning glory for our socialist country/
Our national flag rises above Tian’anmen [...]
