2008 Summer Olympics

By Joey No one denies that Canada has easily the greatest star power of any country in the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. No one denies that Stevie Y is ultimately one of the most gifted hockey players ever to grace the ice and he brings with him some of the most gifted staff in the world in All-Star coa...

By www.dailytimes.com.pk Usain Bolt, the fastest man in history, insisted on Thursday he can run the 100 metres in 9.5 seconds – if he can get back into his gold medal-winning Beijing Olympics form. The Jamaican, 22, also said he had no fear of the in-form Tyson Gay – and if the US sprinter breaks his 9.69 seconds world rec...

By www.bdonline.co.uk Are the Beijing apparatchiks still pulling the Olympic strings? Boots wonders after a bevy of architectural bigwigs critical of Olympic design were frogmarched around the site last week and then allowed to repent for their dissident views by recording gushing messages for a London 20...

The Jaked J01 swimsuit was temporarily banned by FINA (the International Swimming Federation) earlier this year because it supposedly gave swimmers an unfair competitive advantage. Recently, it's been the subject of talk of an entirely different sort, as an ill-located tear in the su...

By Alan Bass Team Canada Team USA Team Russia Team Belarus Team Czech Republic Russia vs. Sweden Finland vs. Canada The bronze medal game Finland vs. Russia The gold medal game Canada vs. Sweden Gold Medal: Sweden Silver Medal: Canada Bronze Medal: Russia

By www.hackneygazette.co.uk THE Olympics ‘host’ borough of Hackney is facing the potential embarrassment of losing its only gymnastics club—just three years before the 2012 Games. The future of the North East London Gymnastics club which caters for 1,500 children is in the balance this week. It is waiting the outcom...

By www.roadtransport.com The government has revealed the series of roads that will give priority to key personnel at the 2012 London Olympics at peak times. The Department for Transport has issued a list of 232 sections of existing road across the capital - the Olympic Route Network (ORN) - that athletes, official...

By Jeremy Juhasz The goaltenders bring one question to mind. If these are indeed the goalies headed to the Olympics, who starts?  As the article states, this Team USA is a youthful one, with only five players who have prior Olympic experience in their hip pocket.

By Gary Cohan The following is a summary of the competitive events included in the Republican Summer Olympics of 2009 -- with their stellar roster of political athletes in the fields of moral turpitude, hypocrisy, deceit and corruption -- and a list of the medalists to date: Influence Fencing:

By www.bdonline.co.uk Designs for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium could be altered at the last minute amid a major change of plan for the venue in legacy mode. New head of the Olympic legacy team Margaret Ford is in favour of keeping the stadium’s 80,000 seats after the games rather than reducing them to 25,000 as p...

By The Huffington Post News Editors The crowds at Taste of Chicago can meet Olympic athletes and see what the Games would look like here. More on Olympics

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 Cheryl Coward In the fourth quarter, Russia did not make it easy for France to maintain the lead they held for the previous three periods. France led at the half, 30-19. In the Bronze Medal Game, Belarus fell to Spain. Spain beat Belarus twice in EuroBasket 2007.

By The Huffington Post News Editors LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A group opposing Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Games took its case to International Olympic Committee headquarters Tuesday. It is not about the Olympics. We love the Olympics but Chicago can't handle it," said activist Rhoda Whitehorse, a retired public s...

With baseball wiped off of the Olympic slate for the 2012 Olympics in London, MLB President Bob DuPuy and player's union chief Don Fehr went before the IOC today with International Baseball Federation president Henry Schiller to plead baseball's case for reinstatement to the games by 2...

By noreply@blogger.com (MaKina) China has been slammed for its human rights record in the latest Amnesty International report. It also declared the 2008 Olympics in Beijing a disaster for human rights in the country. The report, “State of the World’s Human Rights”, was launched May 28 by Amnesty’s Secretary General Iren...

 Canada Yesterday, as "Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review" opened, academia and sportsmen gathered at the University of Toronto to gauge the influences of the great athletic beast -- one whose breath is felt in more than 200 Olympic nations. ...

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 Tom Tresser They have called for a protest rally and march to shut down the Olympic bid on Thursday, April 2 at Federal Plaza at 5pm. Speakers will include activists from Chicago and Vancouver, the site of the 2010 Winter games. The rally coincides with the arrival of the International Olympic Committe...

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 emilyawilson As stated in one of the many articles, Phelps has successfully passed over 1,500 drug tests. During competition, when it’s counted, he’s been sober. Although I’m not a smoker, my take is this: God forbid the man let loose a little after winning a world-record 8 gold medals and living under th...

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...

China Daily  IL - Michael Phelps’ run of success swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing almost defies superlatives: Eight gold medals, seven world record times, ... Moment of the Year: Olympics SI.com KING5.com - China Daily

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...

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 Peter Laclede Even better, he's someone people recognize. This is his third Olympics. Sydney, Athens, Beijing, and most certainly London in four years. There are always star gymnasts, runners, etc. but their sports are simply too hard on their bodies to be a consistent threat from Olympics to Olympics. It...

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 Jonathan Watts In Australia, the Board of Statistics reckons a better guide is medals per head of population, which makes Jamaica the world's top nation, followed by Slovakia and then, erm, Australia. Not to miss out, the European Union groups competitors in economic blocks, which means - guess what? -...

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 Andrew Cawthorne PHOTO: Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the men's 100m heat at the National Stadium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 15, 2008. REUTERS/Aly Song I had always thought the height of sporting ecstasy was watching my beloved Stoke City score a goal. Now I'm at the Olympics in Beijin...

By Andrew Cawthorne PHOTO: Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the men's 100m heat at the National Stadium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 15, 2008. REUTERS/Aly Song I had always thought the height of sporting ecstasy was watching my beloved Stoke City score a goal. Now I'm at the Olympics in Beijin...

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

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.

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...