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 [...]
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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 »
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), [...]
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 a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chinese Visas – Tougher To Gain Than Olympic Medals?
Posted in Athletes, Beijing, Media, Tickets, tagged china visa, china visa update, chinese visa, f visa, visa on 4 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
In recent weeks there has been a lot of confusion and discussion about the rules for applying for a Chinese
visa. Although few public announcements have been made, more and more stories have emerged from people having difficulty in getting hold of a visa. In particular (short stay working) ‘F’ visas have been tough to come [...]
Olympics = Dialogue
Posted in Media, Preparation, Protests, Public expectation, tagged beijing olympic games, Beijing Olympics, china review on 22 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of the China Review came out this week, and was predictably packed with Olympic-centric articles. One quote particularly caught Bob’s eye and had to be included here:
“Being pragmatic, people inside and outside China should look past the temporary politics, and celebrate this event as a key moment in the encounter and dialogue [...]
