The familiar site of a huge sporting event with empty seats has struck again in Beijing it seems. Many of the lower profile events – despite being completely sold out! – have failed to draw a full crowd. This is really upsetting for fans, particularly those who have not been able to purchase tickets legitimately, [...]
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Mystery of the Missing Olympic Tickets
Posted in Public expectation, Sponsors, The Games, Tickets, tagged Beijing Olympics, BOCOG, empty seats, olympic orgnaisers, olympic tickets on 13 August 2008 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
10 Chinese people you should know about
Posted in Athletes, Culture, Sponsors, tagged james reynolds, jay chou, li ning, Liu Xiang, olympic athletes, Yao ming on 9 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
On his blog BBC Beijing correspondent James Reynolds has carried out an impromptue and “unscientific” poll to find the “top 10 Chinese people you should know about“. Made up from contributions from readers the list includes three Olympians (past & present). Liu Xiang and Yao Ming, readers should all be familiar with, but another name [...]
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 [...]
