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Almost all venues are completed. Volunteer recruitment is underway. Tickets are on sale around the world. The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are now just over one year away.Excitement Mounts“The excitement is mounting” says IOC Coordination Commission Chairman Hein Verbruggen. “But there is still a lot of work to do of course! I am happy to say that, today, with only one year rema... Read More
Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games begins this month, a full year before the event opens on 8 August 2008.The systems architecture for Beijing 2008 was finalised last month by the main IT supplier for the Games, Atos Origin, and all the facilities - a PC factory, data centre, integration lab and technology operation centre - are now operational.An IT team of ar... Read More
MOSCOW, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The press center of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) will provide quality service to overseas journalists during the great events next year, a Chinese official of the committee pledged here on Tuesday. Some 21,600 journalists have registered to report the sports games and more than 10,000 un-registered ones will a... Read More
Varanasi, Aug 8: Tibetans here today held a protest against China hosting the 2008 Olympics, saying Beijing should fulfill its pledge on human rights, or give up hosting the games.Tibetan protestors said it was ironical that though China has promoted its 2008 Olympics as a message of peace and friendship, it was placing obstacles in Tibet's path to peace and friendship."China has no ri... Read More
The Xinhua News Agency reports that Beijing plans to rent out 50,000 bicycles across the city ahead of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games to curb pollution and ease congestion.According to Xinhua the new bicycles will be available in Beijing at 230 outlets near subways stations, commercial districts, Olympic venues, hotels and office buildings, as well as in large communities.Beijing Bicycle... Read More
Elaborate celebrations are being planned for the Aug. 8 one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympics, but Chinese leaders fear both the party and the games could be spoiled by an escalating international campaign to link the violence in Sudan's Darfur region to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.China is fiercely proud of its Olympics, seen by many here as the country's coming-out party to the wor... Read More
Last week the Chefs de Mission of 198 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), who will head their national delegations at the 2008 Olympic Games next year, met in Beijing for a preparatory seminar. Through presentations, workshops and a venue tour, the Organising Committee for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), briefed the NOC repr... Read More
Like the Five Olympic Rings from which they draw their color and inspiration, Fuwa will serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace -- and good wishes from China -- to children all over the world.Designed to express the playful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, Fuwa also embody ... Read More
Here's a contrarian question concerning the 2008 Beijing Olympics: Who cares? Sure, it's a big deal -- the media are telling us so. One year out, we're being bombarded by countdown articles about how grand and historic the event will be: massive construction projects, an army of foreign journalists, Steven Spielberg- directed pageantry and, oh yeah, some sporting events. China sees ... Read More
Money talks, but which is side is worth more?Spielberg will let us know I am sure.Steven Spielberg, under pressure from Darfur activists, may quit his post as artistic adviser to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, unless China takes a harder line against Sudan, a representative of the film director told ABC News. China, Sudan's largest oil customer and perennial defender, has come under renewed scr... Read More
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