Are You Ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games?
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The biggest event to hit Asia is only a few days away.
With merely days to go before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China take place, you can be rest assured that all the preparations, hard work, and effort people put in for this won’t be in vain with this being the most prestigious sporting event to hit Asia.
One of the traditions practiced in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is the lighting and relaying of the torch. With the theme, ‘’Light the Passion, Share the Dream,’’ the Nanjing torch relay was soon followed at Hefei for its next stop. Leading the lighting of the torch was Sun Yue, who carried the Olympic torch proudly, reaching the Drum Tower Park and lighting the cauldron. That marks the conclusion of the Nanjing leg of the Olympic torch relay.
Sun, a former captain of the Chinese national women’s volleyball team and currently a coach for the Jiangsu team, was the last of 208 torchbearers who ran the relay. Among the torchbearers were Yu Kaixiang, 14, a middle school student, and Xu Zhize, 91, a retired teacher.
Following a minute’s silence in remembrance of the earthquake victims in Sichuan, the 12.9-kilometer relay started at East Square of the Olympic Sports Center, taking the torch past numerous landmarks, including Nanjing University. Donation boxes were set up along the route to enable spectators to donate for earthquake relief activities.
In other Beijing Olympic Games preparation, host China will try its best to make Olympic stadiums ready ahead of the Games while it goes all out for earthquake relief, that’s according to Xi Jinping, the Chinese vice president.
‘’The preparation for the Olympic Games has…”
2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China are ready for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China is almost here.
August 8 is the date that will officially kick off the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. The Beijing National Stadium will be the first stop for the highly anticipated event and will stretch until August 24.
The Games of the XXIX Olympiad, also known as the 2008 Olympic Games has an official logo titled ‘’Dancing Beijing,’’ featuring a stylized calligraphic character JING (meaning capital), referencing the host city. ‘’Dancing Beijing’’ is a milestone of the Olympics. It serves as a classic chapter of the Olympic epic inscribed by the spirit of the Chinese nation.
The mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympics are the five Fuwa, each representing one color of the Olympic rings.
Designed to express the playful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, the Fuwa also embody the natural characteristics of four of China’s most popular animal. Those are the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow and the Olympic Flame.
You’ll also be seeing the Olympic Rings by August. These five rings; blue, yellow, black, green and red, represent the five parts of the world now encompassed by Olympism and ready to compete against each other.
Moreover, the six colors (including the…)
2006 Winter Olympics Preview: Figure Skating
Friday, February 10th, 2006
Contested in the signature building of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the Palavela, and coming off a scandal-marred 2002 Games, figure skating should once will again dominate prime-time television screens.
Out of the scandal came a new scoring system that assigns specific values to elements in a skater’s program. It is intended to be less open to manipulation than the old 6.0 system. Some skaters say the system has taken the artistry out of the sport in favor of mathematics. Critics have derided the new system because the judges are anonymous.
But Michelle Kwan, 25, is back for her third Olympics, still vying for her first gold medal. She has competed little in the past two years because of injuries and had to petition her way onto the U.S. team when she said a groin injury kept her from skating in the trials. Sasha Cohen, who has spent much of her career in Kwan’s considerable shadow, is the Americans’ best hope for a medal and has fared well in the new scoring system.
The competition, though, could be dominated by Russians, who have the gold-medal favorites in all four disciplines. Irina Slutskaya, who won last year’s world championships, has earned far and away the best scores in the new system. The only skater to have defeated her recently is 15-year-old Mao Asada of Japan, who is too young to compete in the Olympics.
2006 Winter Olympics Preview: Alphine Skiing
Friday, February 10th, 2006
From Janica versus Anja to the “battle of the bitches,” Olympic rivalries are heating up, and we take you through the best and bitterest Olympic duels to expect when the snow kicks up in 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. Leading off the top fueds is none other than the most heated alpine skiing contest.
Aphine Skiing is not a team event, but the story of the Turin Games could, nonetheless, be whether the Americans can unseat the Austrians in the medal hunt.
The Austrians have long been dominant, but Bode Miller of the United States, the defending overall World Cup champion, will be a contender for a medal in each of the five events. His teammate Daron Rahlves, who has been among the best downhillers this season, will be among the downhill favorites.
Winter Olympics Preview: Men’s Ice Hockey
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
The Canadians enter the Torino tournament not only as the defending champions but also as the undisputed kings of international hockey. This is a deep, gritty, experienced team that will feature no fewer than six team captains on the roster; the team returns 18 players from the World Cup of Hockey and 10 from Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, the Americans have neither fully embraced a youth movement nor gone completely retro in assembling their roster. Can being somewhere in the middle between yesterday and tomorrow yield a medal? For a team with question marks about its ability to score and even bigger question marks between the pipes, the answer is not likely.
The Russians will be able to ice three lines of potent scorers and should be able to open up games. If the team can come together under a new generation of stars and accept different roles than they play in the NHL, the Russians will be in the hunt for gold. Although the team is filled with offensive talent, this isn’t an All-Star Game. There will be questions about the Russians’ toughness and ability to grind it out against more physical opponents like Finland, Canada and the United States.
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