2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing China Blog

China’s New-Rich Foreign Policy Won’t Last 
China’s authorities have recently come under fire by foreign governments and human rights groups. Surprisingly, the criticism is not for Beijing’s maltreatment of its own citizens, but rather for Chinese business practices in other countries.

Sweetenham Reveals 2012 Plan With GB Worlds Team 
Bill Sweetenham, the Australian at the helm of British swimming as performance director, has called on the British Olympic Association to add between six and eight young London 2012 hopefuls to the team selected to represent the country at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

Company Targets China’s New Middle Class With Flat-Panel Ads 
Shanghai-based Focus Media lives up to its name by hitting China’s affluent consumers with advertisements when they can’t avoid viewing them.

On global tour of joy and pain, he bikes on
St. Petersburg Times - The trio would ride through five continents, finishing in time for opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics. They would ride into National Stadium in Beijing as conquering heroes and the face of a new China. Liu left behind a wife and son to achieve

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Wall Street Journal - GE had $5 billion in revenue in China in 2005, and is a sponsor of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Its power-generation business is key to its future growth in China. In the past several years, GE has won several large contracts to supply gas turbines

Colgate alumna shares Olympic dream through ESPN
Colgate University News & Events, NY - Sep 22, 2006Bertine was recently asked by the sports network to train and try out for the Beijing Summer Olympics and document her trials and tribulations on the ESPN …

Team USA gets another shot at ‘08 Games
USA Today - Sep 4, 2006… World Championship, must play in the America Zone Qualifying Tournament next summer in Caracas, Venezuela, to get into the 12-nation 2008 Summer Olympics draw. …

Housing bubble, debt bubble or same thing?
Blogging Stocks - Aug 30, 2006… It looks to me like the culmination of this will be after the Beijing (China) Summer Olympics as I discussed last week: Global recession? …

Beijing Discusses Contingency Measures 2008 Olympics
All Headline News - Sep 15, 2006Beijing, China (AHN) - Beijing is looking at dozens of contingency measures for the 2008 Olympics. Such suggestions range from making …

Interview With Iran U-23 Coach Rene
Iran Sports Press, MD - Sep 22, 2006… I expect us to take 7 8 U21 players to Qatar. These players will then be involved for the 2008 Olympics qualification games. …

JACKSON TO COACH WELSH STARS
Sportinglife.com, UK - Sep 27, 2006… performances. “I will work with the two of them initially up to Beijing (2008 Olympics) and then see how things have been going. …

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BEIJING - Performers are seen in a show during the Beijing Cultural Tourism Festival on September 24, 2006 in Beijing, China. The week-long event is aimed at promoting China’s capital tour industry as it gears up to host the 2008 Olympics.

China reneging on rights pledge, group says 
BEIJING — China’s human rights record has deteriorated in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, with thousands of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty International said yesterday.

ATHLETICS: SPORTS WIRE - JUST CRY ME A RIVER! 
WHERE’S the water, then? Great Britain rowers Matt Langridge (left) and Richard Egington (right) help Acer Nethercott plead for help from above as they pose for a photo on a dried-up riverbed which will become the Shunyi Rowing Park in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

US beats China
KLTV, TX - Sep 1, 2006… championships. The Americans beat host China today 2-to-0 on the field to be used during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Former …

Phillips will try to get USA off to a good start
Evansville Courier-Press - play in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Havana, Cuba. The United States squad will play Canada in the 12-team round-robin tournament, which runs through Sept. 5. The top two finishers will advance to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Julaton piling up titles
Contra Costa Times - For instance, barring an 11th-hour change of heart by the International Olympic Committee, women’s boxing won’t be part of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. That was a huge disappointment for a great many women boxers. “I think we’re behind

Scotland Yard won’t probe official’s stay at Anschutz ranch 
London police at Scotland Yard have decided not to investigate Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s stay at Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz’s Colorado ranch last year, according to a British press report.

Ex-Cat Adams signs with Nets after physical 
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Former UA standout and second-round draft pick Hassan Adams signed with the New Jersey Nets on Wednesday after passing a physical on his recently broken right foot.

Beijing wont expel migrants for Olympics — exec 
BEIJING — A Beijing official on Wednesday denied reports the city will expel migrant workers during the 2008 Olympics, but said the Chinese capital is investigating how to keep the mentally ill from “damaging the public interest” during the Games.

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BEIJING - Performers are seen in a show during the Beijing Cultural Tourism Festival on September 24, 2006 in Beijing, China. The week-long event is aimed at promoting China’s capital tour industry as it gears up to host the 2008 Olympics.

Downhill financing plagues Vancouver Olympics (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The Vancouver Olympics are embroiled in financial controversy. People in the Olympics-free zone of Washington shouldn’t take very much comfort in that news.

NFL to hold preseason game in Beijing, China (NFL.com)
(Sept. 24, 2006) — The National Football League — America’s most popular sports attraction — has been selected by the city of Beijing to stage a game in the Chinese capital city that will serve as the kickoff of the one-year countdown to the opening of the XXIX Olympic Games in China.