2008 Summer Olympics

While 4.7 billion people watched the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an amazing 26.3 billion watched the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Each game is watched by more … and more » Kick Kansas City's World Cup bid into high gearKansas City StarWhile 4.7 billion people watched the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an am...

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Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Robots sports stars are being sought for an international robot Olympics to be held in China in 2010.

By drlamar Remember the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, when we saw diving competitor Greg Louganis strike his head on the diving platform?  With a chiropractic adjustment delivered behind the scenes immediately after the incident by Jan Corwin, D.C., he was able to return to the board to win th...

By The Huffington Post News Editors At the Beijing games, Lauren said he was mistaken for an athlete in an elevator because he was wearing the same flag-bearing styles - the highlight of a memorable trip. "For one brief moment, I could put myself in the shoes of an Olympic athlete," he said. WATCH: More on Olympics

By The Huffington Post News Team NEW YORK — Of the many countries participating at the Vancouver Olympics, add Colbert Nation to the list. On Monday's "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert... NEW YORK — Of the many countries participating at the Vancouver Olympics, add Colbert Nation to the list. Links:

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Jay Nordlinger) But NBC, the network covering the Games, had no way of communicating this fact to its viewers. Why? Because it had banned, at least de facto, the word “black.” So the NBC people were reduced to saying, “She’s the first African-American woman from any country to win a gold medal.” Yes, and that i...

By Gus Mastrapa Chicago might have blown the Olympics, but Los Angeles will host the Grand Final of the World Cyber Games in 2010, the competitive gaming organization said Friday. This year’s Grand Final will go down in Chengdu, China. The competition begins on November 11th. See Also:

By Hamilton Nolan Here's the setup: The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama was just convicted of 60(!) counts of bribery, and is likely headed to prison. The mayor's a former "award winning television journalist" who last year said that Birmingham should be hosting the Olympics by 2020. So after his conviction,...

By Michael Fitzpatrick But, team unity issues or not, they actually lost to Puerto Rico and Lithuania, narrowly defeated Greece and Australia to advance to the medal round where they were eventually defeated by Argentina. A decade earlier, a bronze medal by the USA basketball team would have been a humorous tho...

By Michael Fitzpatrick After a 105 year hiatus, golf will be returning to the Olympics. Last week, the International Olympic Committee approved golf’s bid to be included in the 2016 games which will be held in Rio De Janeiro. Because in Australia, golf is a grass roots game.  Courses are plentiful and inexpensive.

By The Huffington Post News Editors They found more to complain about when the board approved a pay package with a base of $560,000 – about 30 percent more than what Scherr earned. And even more when the USOC botched the introduction of its TV network and drew criticism from the International Olympic Committee.

By The Huffington Post News Editors She is one impressive lady," said Kevan Gosper, a senior IOC member from Australia. "She has got great charm, great presence. She's very friendly, very informal, a very good listener. She's a great advocate for the games." More on Olympics

By Dave Zirin It's also difficult for Chicago residents to see how this will help their pocketbooks, given that Daley pledged to the International Olympic Committee that any cost overruns would be covered by taxpayers. Shoveling taxpayers' money into the Olympic maw is no better, especially in thes...

By The Huffington Post News Editors CHICAGO — Pat Ryan isn't a gold medalist, like the leader of Madrid's bid committee. Nor does he have a long history with the International Olympic Committee, as the heads of Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo's organizations do. More on Olympics

By Giles Slade We have hosted the Olympics more times than any other nation. Even in this bad year, we can show the rest of the world how it's done. In 1985, robbers broke into the home of John Kondrads, a retired Australian Olympic swimmer. The thieves took 16 medals including the gold medallion Konrads was a...

By Newsdesk Miller said he intended to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics if he makes the U.S. team. Miller, whose behavior while winning no medals at the 2006 Games was widely criticized, called U.S. Olympic Committee Chairman Larry Probst to say he would do his best to avoid a repeat of that.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Lochte was far off Phelps' world record in the 400 IM, touching first in 4:07.01. Phelps won gold at Beijing in 4:03.84, but decided to scale back his program heading into what will be his final Olympics. A pair of world records fell in non-Olympic events.

By Mark Ritter Team Sweden or “Tre Kronor” as they are also known, have been highly successful at the Worlds, and they won a Gold Medal at the 2006 Olympics. Let’s take a look at my picks to make the Olympic squad in 2010, it could be a sequel to 2006...Believe-That.

By Tracey John “If gaming was an Olympic sport and a skiing game was one of the events, I would definitely try to win an Olympic medal in virtual skiing. (laughs) That could be in one year, in five years or 10 years — you never know when that would happen. Maybe I’ll be done with real skiing by then so I’ll try to wi...

By Giles Slade Anyway, I want you to enjoy our Olympiad. Please, tolerate our small town attitudes with Jon Stewart's or even Steven Colbert's good American humor (which, up here of course, is spelled with a 'u'). HUMOUR, eh? Canada-style. Learn to love it. More on Canada

By Jamie Doward A £1.4bn critical response system to ensure emergency services can deal with a major incident such as the 7/7 bombings is now running so far behind schedule that it is unlikely to be ready in time for the London 2012 Olympics, according to leaked documents.

By David Hopps At Ponds Forge this week, Adlington won the 800m freestyle in a time fast enough to have won Olympic gold, Jo Jackson beat her over 400m as the pair both swam inside the world record, and Ellen Gandy, at 17, announced herself as a world-class performer over 200m butterfly. "It is really encou...

By Owen Gibson The International Olympic Committee is selling the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics on a country by country basis after rejecting a bid from the European Broadcasting Union, a coalition of public service broadcasters, thus raising the prospect of some events being shown on pay TV f...

By Justin McCurry But for how much longer? With Japan eager to host the 2016 Olympics and the city's proselytising governor keen to clean away sleaze and crime, the ramshackle collection of ageing buildings housing bars and clubs catering to every sexual proclivity is in the authorities' firing line. Arm...

By Dave Hill Yesterday the first conclusions of a review by KPMG of the cost of planned temporary venues emerged. The number-crunchers were called in at the insistence of London mayor and Olympic Board member Boris Johnson to see if serious savings would accrue from the sports in question taking plac...

By Dave Hill The fact that a third option is being considered illustrates the tensions at the heart of the Olympic board. London mayor Boris Johnson, who insisted on the KPMG review, is keen to drive down costs and Lord Moynihan, chairman of the British Olympic Association, wants to see a sporting lega...

By Bob 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 Paralympics, ident...

The early 1950s in Czechoslovakia was a bleak period in the country’s history, but there was also some escape from politics. In 1952 the Summer Olympics were held in the Finnish capital Helsinki and the undisputed hero of the games was the greatest Czech runner of all time, Emil Zátopek. Des...

By Dresonic Jamaica finished the Beijing Olympics with a record haul of 11 medals - six gold, three silver and two bronze. Bolt, Powell and Campbell-Brown were bestowed with honours in the rank of Commander, and their colleagues in the rank of Officer.

By Jose Fermoso August 2008 was all about the Beijing Olympics, political party conventions, and the most widely anticipated event of all: Michael Jackson's 50th birthday (woo-hoo!). But the World of Gadgets was just as exciting, especially if you're an iPhone app aficionado....

Few sports fans in the Czech Republic will forget the recent Beijing Olympics, where the country notched up six medals, three silver and three gold. The games featured a number of gripping stories, including the very first gold medal win of the games by shooter Kateřina Emmons as well as Ba...

Dagmar Damková, the first woman to referee at the highest level in Czech men’s football, recently reached another career milestone, when she officiated in the women’s football final at the Beijing Olympics. The USA beat Brazil 1:0 in that game, and though the ref herself obviously wasn’...

By noreply@blogger.com (MaKina) Human rights groups in the United States say the Chinese government did not live up to its promises to respect free speech and human rights during the Beijing Games, and they want the International Olympic Committee to insist on free-speech guarantees from the host of any future Olympic...

By edit@zdnet.com.au (David Braue) How Seven blew the internet Olympics The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning th...

By Moe The Olympics: yay, a thing I don't need to add a contextual sentence lest you haven't been watching! Of course you're watching! At this point not having watched the Olympics is like not having heard of September 11. DMX himself knows about it! And NBC just got its best Saturday ratings in 18 y...

By Hamilton Nolan It goes without saying that we will not be in Beijing to cover the Olympics. Furthermore, we've never been to Beijing, and our Olympic experience is limited to one pair of first-round tickets to see the Dream Team crush Kyrgyzstan or somebody in Atlanta in 1996. None of this precludes us from...

Reporters Without Borders is encouraging journalists covering the Beijing Olympics to skirt censorship with tips on how to get around firewalls, lock computer files and find safe translators.

We're not about Chinese hip hop, or American hip hop, or English hip hop," explained Meng, 26. "We're about Beijing hip hop. In Three's 'Beijing welcomes you back' live from Beijing. Beijing Wanbao' ('Beijing Evening News') In Three music video online

Child labour is being used to make official merchandise for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, say campaigners.

BEIJING Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine.

Sooty air and chronic traffic congestion in the Chinese capital is still troubling the International Olympic Committee with the 2008 Beijing Olympics just 16 months away.

She broke and held 27 individual world records in the pool. She triumphed in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the 1960 Rome Olympics and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics where she caused a real ruckus. Some versions of the story have dawn Fraser climbing a flagpole at the Japanese Emperor's palace to sou...

By technologyted@mac.com Finally, we also honor a few of the notable speedskaters who won medals in the Olympics. Yes, it's not ice hockey, but it's on ice, so it's good enough for us. Besides, Apolo Anton Ohno, Joey Cheek, and Cindy Klassen are just so darn likeable that we need to mention them!

Hans and I exchanged some Olympics stories. We talked about our night of table top curling and Dire Straits and the Haka. He told me about the Opening Ceremonies, and how after two hours of waiting the Kiwis were suddenly told to run, and so the New Zealand Olympic delegation sprinted toward t...

By technologyted@mac.com This enhanced Podcast features a look at the U.S. and Canadian Women's Olympic teams. We also bring in the Good, the Sad, and the Ugly as we close out the NHL action prior to the Olympic break. Hear why the New York Rangers are our pick for the Good Team of the week. We also report on the honoring of Jim...