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Video: Celine on the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 OlympicsOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, May 28
By rss@youtube.com (rkelle) Author: rkelle Keywords: Robert Keller Celine Dion parody Beijing Olympics little Chinese girl beauty Anne Murray Added: May 28, 2009
Video: Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 Opening Ceremony
Original at AOL Video
• Wed, Apr 1
Missed the Beijing Olympics' Opening Ceremony? Don’t worry; you can live or relive the unforgettable experience here at Indonesia Media Online. &#... video.aol.com
Video: Opening Ceremony Of Beijing Olympics 2008 in a Material worldOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Mar 24
By rss@youtube.com (narentini) Author: narentini Keywords: Opening Ceremony Of Beijing Olympics 2008 in a Material world Added: March 24, 2009
Video: Beijing Olympics 2008 Commercial Piggy's training for Opening ...Original at livevideo
• Sun, Jan 25
Commercial Video: Piggy prepare her Opening Ceremony Beijing Olympics 2008 http://www.piggy-the-princess.com/ www.livevideo.com
Video: Olympics: Ceremonies Season 1 ,Episode 1, "Opening Ceremony Sights and Sounds"Original at Google Video
• Sun, Nov 9
Unknown length - 2008-11-10 The amazing spectacle of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
Video: Tokyo Olympiad - The opening ceremony of 1964 Olympics (2/2)Original at YouTube
• Tue, Sep 9
By rss@youtube.com (whitehope5) This is a 1965 documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Author: whitehope5 Keywords: Olympic 1964 Tokyo Japan Summer Color Added: September 9, 2008
Video: The Opening+Closing Ceremony Of Beijing 2008 Olympic GamesOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Sep 4
By rss@youtube.com (madeinchina247) The Opening and Closing Ceremony Of The Beijing 2008 Olympics Games are already released on DVD!! You can buy the released DVDs at www.madeinchina247.com The Opening Ceremony Of The Beijing 2008 Olympics Games DVD New official release! On August 8, 2008 at 8pm, the XXIX Olympic Games kick...
Video: The 2008 Beijing Olympics - Opening CeremonyOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Aug 10
By rss@youtube.com (pilipinasmabuhay100) The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony in Pictures. Officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the 2008 Beijing Olympics started on Saturday, August 9, 2008 after the grand and spectacular Opening Ceremony on Friday. The Beijing Olympics will end on the 24th of August, 2008 follo...
Video: 2008 Olympics AWESOME Opening CeremonyOriginal at Metacafe
• Fri, Aug 8
By gaanngil Click here to watch the video Submitted By: gaanngil Tags: Art Beijing Body Ceremonies Ceremony China Flames Flexibility Greece Gymnastics Olympics Peking Syncronisation Categories: Entertainment News & Events
Video: Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony-Watch Beijing Olympics OnlineOriginal at Google Video
• Fri, Aug 8
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The 'world's' number one DJ Tiesto to perform at Cohen Stadium - Newspaper Tree
Original at Beijing Olympics
• Fri, Nov 6
… at the Summer Olympics he performed live at the opening ceremony in Athens, Greece becoming the first DJ to play on stage at an Olympics Games. … The 'world's' number one DJ Tiesto to perform at Cohen StadiumNewspaper Tree… at the Summer Olympics he performed live at the opening ceremony i...
Did she say that out loud?
Original at Because No One Asked
• Wed, Oct 28
By Michele It’s the 2010 guilticulturalism Olympics! I’m afraid to see the opening ceremony. I’ll make my prediction now … drummers, round dance, hoop dance, lots of feathers. Uh oh … how will the liberal guilt laden vegans of Vancouver reconcile the leather costumes of the native performers?
IOC chief praises London 2012 effort
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Wed, Oct 28
The end of October marks 1,000 days to go until the opening ceremony on London, and Rogge said London has progressed well in almost every area. But the IOC president warned that the preparations could be disrupted by unforeseen events – for example the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 20...
London 2012 chairman says there is 'no cause for complacency' as 1000 days loom
Original at telegraph.co.uk
• Wed, Oct 28
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With nearly 1000 days to go until the London Olympics' opening ceremony we are on track and within budget.
2012 Olympics: faster higher dafter
Original at telegraph.co.uk
• Thu, Oct 22
Telegraph View: Public art planned for the opening ceremony will be a huge waste of money.
London 2012 Olympics will provide economy with £7bn boost says Lord Coe
Original at telegraph.co.uk
• Tue, Oct 20
• 1 related articles
With 1000 days to go before the opening ceremony London 2012 organising committee chairman Lord Coe says the Games will provide a £7 billion boost.
Brazil pledges Olympic security after Rio violence
Original at topix.com
• Sun, Oct 18
The Olympic rings are illuminated during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China.
Cinematheque: China's lost gen dance off in cinemas on Thursday | Shanghaiist
Original at virtualreview
• Sun, Oct 4
By vr@virtualreview.org Quick, quick slow", a comedy about a group of middle aged Chinese dancers hoping to take part in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The movie also offers interesting insights to the hardships of China´s "lost generation" during the Cultura...
Closing ceremony - what did you think?
Original at Beijing Olympic Games 2008
• Sun, Aug 24
By Mike We had a short section to mark the handover of the Olympics from Beijing to London. London’s mayor Boris Johnson looked a little out of place. Leona Lewis sang an old Led Zepplin song with Jimmy Page playing the guitar. It is going to be interesting to see how London does the opening ceremony. I am...
A big show planned for closing ceremony
Original at latimes.com
• Thu, Aug 21
By Mike James Network people deal in hyperbole when promoting events. So when NBC Olympics host Bob Costas predicted that the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics would be “uber-spectacular,” eyes rolled. Turns out, he was right on the mark. Now, on Sunday...
Advertisers Looking Beyond NBC Online For Olympics Opportunities
Original at Wired
• Wed, Aug 20
By Meghan Keane Traffic to NBCOlympics.com has been high, but during last week's Michael Phelps-a-thon -- during which NBC recorded higher ratings for one of the swimming star's events than even for the opening ceremony -- Yahoo's Olympics site edged ahead in viewers, with 8 million unique viewers to N...
Pain and sacrifice for ceremony performers
Original at MSNBC
• Tue, Aug 19
Martial arts student Cheng Jianghua only saw the army barracks he stayed in and the stadium where he performed at the spectacular Olympics opening ceremony. But his sacrifices were minor — other performers were injured, fainted from heatstroke or forced to wear adult diapers so the show...
IOC wants opening ceremonies off file sharing site
Original at news.yahoo.com
• Tue, Aug 19
The International Olympic Committee is trying to stop downloads of video of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony that are being spread on The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site.
Beijing 2008: Happiness can't be faked
Original at Boycott 2008 Communist Olympics
• Mon, Aug 18
By MaKina(noreply@blogger.com) Web page: The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted. At the opening ceremony we saw this global festival manipulated for the sake of narrow nationalism.
IOC wants opening ceremonies off file sharing site
Original at International Business Times
• Mon, Aug 18
The International Olympic Committee is trying to stop downloads of video of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony that are being spread on The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site.
NBC ratings bounce back on Friday night
Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Sun, Aug 17
By Greg Johnson After besting Athens Games' numbers since the opening ceremony on Aug. 8, NBC's primetime ratings had suffered a double dip on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The network benefited on Friday night from having Michael Phelps back in the pool, where the U.S. athlete won yet another gold medal i...
Opinion: Watching the Olympics online: It's better than tolerable
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Tue, Aug 12
Seattle Post Intelligencer Olympic Web Sites See Huge Uptick In Lead Up To Opening Ceremony SportsBusiness Daily (subscription) Review: Online Olympics is ambitious, but not TV The Associated Press Olympics Live: Cool, but with compromises CNET News
NBC Brings You Michael Phelps By Any Means Necessary [Olympics]
Original at Gawker
• Tue, Aug 12
By Hamilton Nolan That sums it up. Nobody can be mad at the network, regardless how ridiculous it looked when the fireworks from the opening ceremony were going off behind CNBC anchors who had to ignore them, because they hadn't been rebroadcast in America yet. Or when they faked some other fireworks. Few peop...
Beijing olympics designed to benefit a regime responsible for appalling abuse of human rights: Edward McMillan-Scott
Original at chinaview (WordPress)
• Mon, Aug 11
By chinaview Edward McMillan-Scott, The Guardian, UK, Friday August 08 2008- Original: The reality behind China's Olympic image of modernity, The Guardian Edward McMillan-Scott, The Guardian, UK, Friday August 08 2008- The opening ceremony of the Beijing
The Tech Details Behind the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Original at mediabistro.com
• Mon, Aug 11
So, if you're like this writer, try as you might, you couldn't possibly avoid catching a healthy portion of the Olympics' opening ceremony this past Friday. As we were watching it, this writer's fiancee kept asking "How are they doing that?!" or "How is that working?!" to which we'd sort of...
Birds Nest’s Chinese Designer Boycotts Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Original at chinaview (WordPress)
• Sun, Aug 10
By chinaview In an open letter, Ai said he is concerned that Chinese authorities are using the Games to strengthen their control over the Chinese people. Almost 60 years after the founding of the People’s Republic, Chinese people still live under autocratic rule without universal suffrage, he conti...
Thousands worldwide join China protests as Olympics open
Original at chinaview (WordPress)
• Sat, Aug 9
By chinaview LONDON (AFP) — Thousands of people joined protests around the globe Friday accusing China of relentless human rights abuses as the Beijing Olympics kicked off with a dazzling, three-hour opening ceremony. AFP AFP, Aug. 8, 2008- LONDON (AFP) — Thousands of people joined protests around t...
Beijing Olympic Grand Opening Ceremony ImagesOriginal at youtube.com
• Sat, Aug 9
By yokami123 http://olympicgames2.blogspot.com Beijing Olympics opens with outstanding fantastic ceremony Fireworks, athletes and pageantry on a scale never before seen in the Olympics opened the Summer Games in Beijing on Friday. A global TV audience of four billion and 91,000 in the Olympic Sta...
What to Expect at the Opening Ceremonies
Original at Light the Torch – Beijing Olympics and Other Olympic
• Thu, Aug 7
By Sandy Mitchell This article on the Vancouver 2010 site, a group that’s already hard at work on their own opening ceremony preparations, offers additional insight on what goes into producing an Olympic Opening Ceremony. Tags: celine dion, lopez lomong, Opening Ceremony, sarah brightman, Yao-Ming
Foreign activists launch pre-Olympics protests
Original at Boycott 2008 Communist Olympics
• Wed, Aug 6
By MaKina(noreply@blogger.com) Also known as the Bird's Nest, the stadium is where the opening ceremony for the games will be held Friday. It was the first protest at a games venue. The International Olympic Committee, which has faced criticism for giving the games to China despite its rights record, urged Chinese author...
UPDATE 1-Olympics-Beijing still hazy with three days to goOriginal at Reuters
• Tue, Aug 5
blanketing Beijing lifted slightly on Tuesday although the sun was obscured by grey skies three days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. ... Beijing Olympics: China to celebrate week of 'fresh air' Telegraph.co.uk New York Times - BusinessWeek
Podcast: Sports News 8.4.2008
Original at Radio Prague
• Mon, Aug 4
In Sports News this Monday: veteran canoeist Štěpánka Hilgertová is selected to carry the Czech flag at the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics; the 2008-2009 season begins in Czech football’s Gambrinus League with a win for favourites Sparta Prague and a defeat for defending cha...
Special Olympics Torch On Way To Stadium
Original at WBAL Channel.com
• Wed, Jun 6
As the 2007 Special Olympics near, the Olympic torch makes its way to Johnny Unitas Stadium for Friday's opening ceremony.