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100 Day Countdown Begins…(10 days early)
There are just one hundred (and ten) days left before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. Typically highly organised and publicised the 100 day count down for the Beijing Olympics has...
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Olympic Theme Songs and Videos
The Shanghaiist has come up trumps this weekend with a showcase of over a dozen songs to have been shortlisted for the honour of the official Beijing Olympics theme song. The songs come from some of...
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Real Life Fuwa
A fun Olympics feel-good story from Xinhua News today; Quintuplets bring Olympic mascots to life. As the Olympic torch reaches their home city of Shantou, Guangdong, Lin Zhonghua and her fellow...
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Liu Xiang Starts Season With a Win
Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang has begun is season as he means to continue it in Beijing, with a gold medal. (Via Xinhua) Liu said: “I’ve always started my season strongly in Osaka so I hope...
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Olympics = Dialogue
The latest issue of the China Review came out this week, and was predictably packed with Olympic-centric articles. One quote particularly caught Bob’s eye and had to be included here: “Being pragmatic,...
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Beijing Olympic Anti-Terrorism Exercises
This week the Boston Globe has a collection of photos from various anti-terrorism exercises and demonstrations (thanks to Rachel for pointing this out). A number of these come from “a week-long series...
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Olympic Opening Ceremony Day
Finally the day has come and everybody – with the possible exception of those who have chosen to time such an auspicious date with wedding/child birth – is gearing up for the main event; the Opening...
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Opening Ceremony – Top 10 moments
The general concensus appears to be that it was a truely spectacular opening ceremony (and no need to any fears of upset). Bob watched the whole ceremony with friends, and here are out selection of the...
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Olympic Rowing Interview – David Blackham
With the Olympic Rowing finals around the corner, Bob has interviewed British junior coach David Blackham to find out his thoughts on the emergence of a strong Chinese team, the weather conditions and...
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Lessons for London from the Beijing Olympics
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...
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