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 ‘London 2012’ 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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oscar Pistorius – The Blade Runner Rides Again
Posted in Athletes, Legacy, London 2012, Paralympics, tagged 400m, Athletes, balde runner, Beijing Olympics, beijing paralympics, cheetah, oscar pistorius, ossur, Paralympics, paralympics athletes, prosthetics on 17 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
The international news and the blogosphere this week has rightfully been dominated by coverage of the dreadful events in Sichuan, and the relief efforts. It’s difficult to concentrate on other news.
However this Friday saw ground-breaking news that will reflect strongly on the Olympics, if not in Beijing then certainly in future events. After months of [...]
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 encouraging [...]
Olympic Torch Protests – Who Says What?
Posted in Athletes, London 2012, Media, Protests, olympic torch, 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 [...]
Paris Protests Cut Relay Short
Posted in London 2012, Protests, olympic torch, 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 reasons four [...]
London Olympic Torch Relay – Video
Posted in London 2012, Media, Protests, olympic torch, tagged Beijing Olympics, london torch relay, olympic torch, olympic torch relay on 6 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bob filmed the celebrations in Chinatown to welcome the Olympic torch. This is now the first film on Bob’s new Youtube account.
The Olympic torch was welcomed to London’s Chinatown by excited crowds and performances from traditional lions and dragons. The protests did not flare up here, though there was one — [...]
