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 ‘Preparation’ 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 »
Olympic Rowing Interview – David Blackham
Posted in Athletes, Beijing, Drugs, Guest Posts, Preparation, The Games, tagged 2008 Olympics, Beijing Olympics, chinese rowing, coxless fours, olympic gold, olympic rowing, rowing, Zac Purchase on 15 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
With the Olympic Rowing finals around the corner, Bob has interviewed British junior coach David Blackham to find out his thoughts on the emergence of a strong Chinese team, the weather conditions and the chance of the British rowers. Here is what he had to say, before heading out to see the Games for himself:
David [...]
Opening Ceremony – Top 10 moments
Posted in Beijing, Culture, Legacy, London 2012, Preparation, Public expectation, tagged opening ceremony, li ning, beijing olympcis, olympic pictures, beijing opening ceremony, olympic opening ceremony, 2008 opening ceremony, drums 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 [...]
Olympic Opening Ceremony Day
Posted in Beijing, Preparation, Protests, Public expectation, Uncategorized, tagged beijing 2008, beijing olympcis, beijing olympcis blog, beijing olympcis opening ceremony, opening ceremony, shanghai on 8 August 2008 | 10 Comments »
Finally the day has come and everybody – with the possible exception of those who have chosen to time such an auspicious date with wedding/child birth – is gearing up for the main event; the Opening Ceremony.
All over Shanghai people have been working half-days, leaving work early to prepare for the evening’s festivities. Bars and [...]
Beijing Olympic Anti-Terrorism Exercises
Posted in Legacy, Preparation, Protests, Public expectation, olympic torch, tagged anti-terrorism, Beijing Olympics, beijing terrorism, chinese military, chinese police, olympic preparations, olympic terrorism, olympic torch on 10 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week the Boston Globe has a collection of photos from various anti-terrorism exercises and demonstrations (thanks to Rachel for pointing this out). A number of these come from “a week-long series of anti-terrorist drills called “Great Wall 5″, in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games”, so the Globe claims.
Although this may just be [...]
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 [...]
Liu Xiang Starts Season With a Win
Posted in Athletes, Preparation, Public expectation, tagged Beijing Olympics, Liu Xiang, 100m hurdles, osaka, olympic hurdles, olympic champion on 12 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang has begun is season as he means to continue it in Beijing, with a gold medal.
(Via Xinhua) Liu said: “I’ve always started my season strongly in Osaka so I hope this will be a good omen.” As Liu knows very well, the rest of China is hoping this [...]
Real Life Fuwa
Posted in Culture, FuWa, Just for fun, Preparation, olympic torch, tagged FuWa, olympic mascots, olympics torch on 10 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
A fun Olympics feel-good story from Xinhua News today; Quintuplets bring Olympic mascots to life.
As the Olympic torch reaches their home city of Shantou, Guangdong, Lin Zhonghua and her fellow quintuplets will play Fuwa (Olympic mascots) during the day’s opening ceremony.
“It is very lucky for the city to have the quintuplets to play Fuwa,” says [...]
Olympic Theme Songs and Videos
Posted in Beijing, Culture, Paralympics, Preparation, Sponsors, tagged Andy Lau, Beijing Olympics, fly together, Olympic Song, olympic theme, Paralympics, S.H.E., Welcome to Beijing on 28 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Shanghaiist has come up trumps this weekend with a showcase of over a dozen songs to have been shortlisted for the honour of the official Beijing Olympics theme song.
The songs come from some of the creme de la creme of the Chinese pop world, including Andy Lau (Andy Liu), S.H.E. and numerous participants past [...]
100 Day Countdown Begins…(10 days early)
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Preparation, tagged 100 day countdown, Beijing Olympics, bird's nest, london mayor, olympic cheerleaders, olympic village on 20 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are just one hundred (and ten) days left before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. Typically highly organised and publicised the 100 day count down for the Beijing Olympics has been announced ten days early. To mark this ‘occassion’ a song has been recorded and released; it includes the voices of 100 [...]
