2008 Summer Olympics

Early into his summer, Bosh decided to watch the championship game from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. It was supposed to be one of those feel-good moments, … and more » Bosh does heavy lifting for RaptorsSI.comEarly into his summer, Bosh decided to watch the championship game from the 2008...

The 19-year-old Bogosian, a native of northern New York, has developed into a superb two-way defenseman with shocking ease, with just 64 NHL games under his belt. The third overall pick from 2008 already has eight goals this season, tops among NHL defensemen. He would be a natural for the up...

No. 2: Michael Phelps Phelps won six gold medals in the 2004 Olympic games, one shy of the record set by Mark Spitz. In the 2008 Olympics, he finally broke … Athletes of the decade are ones to rememberThe Daily EvergreenNo. 2: Michael Phelps Phelps won six gold medals in the 2004 Olympic games, o...

Andre Ward has that terrific amateur pedigree, winning the Gold medal at the Athens Olympics. He's had some good wins in the pros but we will only find out … and more » Super Six PredictionsFight NewsAndre Ward has that terrific amateur pedigree, winning the Gold medal at the Athens Olympi...

Belbin looks like an Olympic medalist. But we say the winner is . . .Los Angeles Times… night in Lake Placid, five reporters who will be covering figure skating at the 2010 Olympics agreed to hazard predictions on the Winter Games medals. … and more »

Fifteen months after the Beijing Olympics, Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified because of doping at the games.

By Mark Ritter Either way, whether Yzerman employs familiar faces or a mishmash of old and new to round out Team Canada’s roster, one thing is for sure: when everything is all said and done, Canada will ice one of the most intimidating/impressive group of twelve forwards to ever don the Canadian jersey. C...

Cyclist Davide Rebellin of Italy will be stripped of the silver medal in the road race from the 2008 Beijing Olympics because of doping.

By randasfans And then came Michelle.  I barely know where to begin.  (My friend Michelle might encourage me to start by telling you about the belt that I once purchased because it was the same beautiful ice blue color of the dress that Michelle Kwan wore during her long program at the Nagano Olympics when s...

After years of supporting their children's Olympic dreams, parents of athletes often find themselves in a last-minute dash to get tickets and lodging.

by Will BrinsonFiled under: International Olympics, TV and Movies, Winter Sports, Sports Media, Figure Skating Stephen Colbert announced -- in case you missed it or thought it was fake like his Republican-y shtick-- on Monday night that Colbert Nation would become the new primary spo...

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 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 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 Helene Elliott With that title has come a considerable amount of opportunity. I've spent the "off-season" traveling the world skating in shows and TV specials, shooting commercials and photos for sponsors, working with NBC on its Olympic promotions, making appearances trying to spread Olympic spir...

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 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 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 Newsdesk Most of the athletes at this week's U.S. Olympic media summit in Chicago have February circled on their calendars, with their minds focused entirely on getting to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Olympic snowboard hopeful Louie Vito has what much of... Most of the athletes at this week's U.S. Olympic me...

By Mike Dojc Cyclist turned speed skater Clara Hughes is an athlete of awesome distinction. The  Winnipegger is the only Canadian to medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. She won a pair of bronze medals in the road races at the 1996 Atlanta Games and another bronze in the 5000-metre speed skating...

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 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...

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...

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’...

The object of this petition is the poor officiating in the (Men's Over 80kg) quarter-final tournament between Nigeria (Chika Chukwumerije) and Greece (Alexandro Nicholaidias) on August 23 in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing (Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium). The o...

The Beijing Olympics were generally regarded as one of the most spectacular in recent times, and were praised by the president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge as ‘truly exceptional’. But were they perhaps a bit too spectacular – raising the bar so high that cities wi...

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 gotea Cover Race Walking: and not BMX? Are you kidding me. NBC should be shot for this one. We should give an honorary gold to the person who convinced the IOC Race Walking is actually a sport. NBC doesn't have to encourage this kind of idiocy. "And the gold in Halo 3 goes to..." please no.

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 Moe As of this writing, it’s not known whether he will reach his personal goal of winning eight gold medals in the Games, only that he has won more gold medals than any Olympic athlete in history, has broken records with each win in these Games, and is completely awesome.

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.

USA vs Brazil, women's soccer Except for basketball star Yao Ming, there might not be a Chinese athlete more well-known entering these Summer Games than Lui Xiang. The hurdler is a source of national pride due to his gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the 2004 Olympics.

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

The earthquake and its aftermath have triggered a backlash against foreign companies who did not donate enough to the relief effort. Yet multinationals have made careful plans to appeal to Chinese patriotism during the Olympics.

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

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...