2008 Summer Olympics

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 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 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.

 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. ...

Obama even called Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver to apologize before the show aired. He has reportedly invited some Special Olympic athletes to bowl with him at the White House. However, using Special Olympics to describe a poor athletic ...

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 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...

You can play like an Olympian right now at Vancouver's completed ... Seattle Times Dist. 128 teacher coaches Special Olympic athletes Libertyville Review Finally fluent in Nordic, US skiers ready to leap International Herald Tribune

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

  Canada - From Paris and London to San Francisco and Seoul, the Beijing Olympics torch relay became a target for human rights protesters as it meandered across the ... Kenyan Masters Beijing’s Elements New York Times Beijing Games not most inspiring, but Phelps, Bolt were Chicago Tribune

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 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...

By Nathan Gardels The Beijing Olympics marked the advent of a new era in which China would emerge out of the mists of history -- not as a hegemonic superpower, but as the superior civilization in a post-American world. The magnificent success of the Beijing Olympics," he says, "objectively marks the transi...

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....

 China - This time, the Paralympics is being held by the Beijing Olympics organizing committee (BOCOG) to present "Two Games with Equal Splendor". ... Beijing Olympics costs worth it, sponsors say Sports Business Journal (subscription) Glasgow Daily Record - Beijing Review

By Joseph A. Palermo In this day and age," Safire writes, "it is not a huge throng wildly cheering on cue" that matters; "On the contrary, the target is the individual American voter watching a TV or computer screen at home." According to Safire, Obama's speech was a failure because it was "all too like the colle...

By Hiren China had been going all out to put in an impressive performance at the Beijing Olympics. China’s leaders have had a long tradition of using sports to boost national pride. For china, a significant victory at Beijing would enhance its potential superpower status. Its vast multibillion spo...

By Roads I found myself in Greece for the Olympics, back where it all started. Four years late for Athens, and half a world from China. Yet the medal table tells only a small part of the story about Beijing. Because surely, this picture is on a far larger scale, just like those huge images of the opening ce...

Ratings, however, were a different story. While the Beijing Games faired better than both the 2000 Games in Sydney and the 2004 Games in Athens, Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996) topped the recently concluded contests. Regardless, we're pleased we won't have to write another post abou...

By Tom Doctoroff Now that the Olympics marketing extravaganza is behind us, let's take a deep breath and ask ourselves whether China is truly poised to emerge as... Now that the Olympics marketing extravaganza is behind us, let's take a deep breath and ask ourselves whether China is truly poised to emerge as...

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...

By Vamsi Olympics 2008 in Beijing has concluded. The event has turned out to be the best Olympics ever, and all the credit must go to the chinese people. Jai Bajrang Bali ! :-) ( Note : This is a work of fiction by lionking! ) Olympics 2008 in Beijing has concluded. The event

By Adeola Aderounmu Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian has been disqualified and stripped of his Olympic bronze medal. From the  BBC) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the Swede was punished for violating the spirit of fair play during the medal ceremony.

By Kevin Williams With the Olympics coming to a close, and the Redeem Team finally claiming their gold medal, I was inspired to write on the top ten foreign players in the NBA, 5. Leandro Barbosa (Phoenix Suns/Brazil) 3. Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs/France) 1. Yao Ming (Houston Rockets/China)

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 The Penguatroll So that's my initial impression. I've only played a couple of preseason games, so I can tune up. I'm going to be destroying my fiancee later, so I'll get some practice there. She'll probably play for five minutes and then quit because she has the attention span of a goldfish on methyl amphetami...

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 Matthew Irby But I have to disagree, these Olympics have had failure after failure after mistake after mistake for the U.S. Olympic Track & Field team. Lauryn Williams, if you remember, had the exchange problem with then track star Marion Jones in the 2004 Athens Olympics that lead to the Team USA DSQ.

By Mary Hughes No matter what you may think of Gatlin and the doping suspension that left him on the sidelines for the Beijing Olympics, one fact is incontrovertible: the USA sprint teams have laid an egg at The Bird’s Nest.  The team that hails from the blood lines of Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, and Carl Lewi...

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.

Ha Yiqi is a fourth-generation Beijing kite maker and Olympic fan. Dave Barry: Bye-bye, Beijing' China Steps Up Scrutiny of a Minority in Beijing' Park visitors in Beijing to be frisked' Chinese Inspired by Iraq Olympic Team' In Beijing, do splashy protests pay dividends?'

Ha. Remember the other day when we said that if we heard about one more "fake" incident at the Olympics we were going to start to suspect the whole show was a CGI broadcast from the basement of 30 Rock? Well turns out we weren't so far off! According to today's Times 13 Olympic sports including a...

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By Frank the Tank 2. So far, so good for NBA at Olympics (Sports Media Watch) – For those of us real Americans that don’t live in the Pacific and Mountain time zones and are able to watch many Olympics events live, we know that the most important development from NBC’s Olympic coverage is the resuscitation of J...

By Josh Lewis Despite having to work the next morning, I decided to set my alarm clock and get up in the wee hours to watch the Canadian gold medal favourites try to win Canada's first medal of the Beijing Olympics. These are sports that I would never watch under normal circumstances, especially if Canada...

By pauljlane The announcers, for their part, do a great job of adding drama to these sports. They're occasionally over the top in hyping the situation, but it's not to the level of being annoying like on many regular season NBA telecasts or midseason baseball games. While it must be hard to find experts on...

By Matt Gilmartin In four days, on August 8, the greatest athletes from around the world will come together for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.  When the 2008 Summer Olympics start in four days in Beijing, China, I'm going to be watching some basketball, shooting, boxing, table tennis...

Among the hordes of journalists covering the Olympics starting Friday in Beijing are scores of people who understand that what this major international event breaks down to is a lot of local stories about neighbors reaching for Olympic gold.

By TJ Ferguson August 7th vs. Japan The US "Dream" Team has been pretty shaky in recent years.  Having not fared so well in World Tournaments and finishing with just a bronze medal in the last Olympics. August 10th vs China August 14th vs Greece August 16th vs Spain

In the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, Steve Carp writes "from the moment the United States finished third in men's basketball in the 2004 Athens Olympics, all of USA Basketball's attention and energy have been devoted to putting America back on top. A new philosophy was introduced. A new manag...

By Ramble On From the recent local news report, I gathered that Brunei would be represented in swimming and shot putt. Brunei, the report said, is receiving funds from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under its Olympic Solidarity programme to help these athletes for training. The country...

For Anne Donovan in these Olympics, there is No.1. For now, though, the Games stare her in the face. Donovan said her team's main rivals will be Australia and Russia in Beijing. She worries most about her squad's suspect defense and the players' limited training time together.

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By Matthew T. Sussman Well, curling season's over. And it was a doozy of a year. We had American breakthroughs in the Olympics and the World Championships. We had Quebec representing Canada at worlds. We had women curlers exposing it all for the good of a calendar. And I had a blast playing the game myself.Canadian tri...

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...