2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing China Blog

People, developments to watch in 2007 (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Ten people and developments to watch for 2007.

“Blood in the Water” Olympic Match Inspires Las Vegas Teen (KVBC Las Vegas)
Fifty years ago, what’s been called the bloodiest game in Olympic history was played in Melbourne, Australia. Its effects are still being felt today, here in the Las Vegas Valley.

THE YEAR AHEAD IN SPORTS: The mother of all marathons (Daily Yomiuri Online)
Dethroned as world women’s marathon champion two years ago in Helsinki by Paula Radcliffe, Catherine Ndereba would like nothing better than to face her again on the streets of Osaka.

Beijing invites suggestions for English translations of its road signs (ANI via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Dec 25 (ANI): Foreigners in Beijing might not get lost in the city's myriad lanes and by-lanes anymore, as the Chinese capital is planning to standardize the English names of all its public signs before the 2008 summer Olympics. The city administration has put online the draft translations of the all road signs in the capital for public suggestion. The translations have been put …

Greater Cooperation Stressed At UN Conference
NewsBlaze, CA - Dec 8, 2006… Ma Zhen Chuan, Director-General of Beijing Public Security Bureau and responsible for security at the 2008 Summer Olympics, was one of the participants at …

Clarence R. “Bud” Fowkes / Archery coach for U.S. Olympic team, bow
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - He would go on to coach archery in 14 countries, guide the U.S. team through the infamous 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, coach several U.S. national archery champions, and design his own bows, crossbows and sights. In 2003, the National

Life After Death
Slate - Fourteen years ago, when Seoul hosted the Summer Olympics, the dog-meat critics had their day. The South Korean government threw them a bone, banning dog meat under a law prohibiting “foods deemed unsightly.” That’s the law FIFA now wants South Korea

‘08 already a year to remember
Pioneer Press - And the government in Beijing has launched a campaign against public spitting to avoid offending visitors to the 2008 Summer Olympics. “We’re going to plant flowers everywhere you can see,” said Bob Bierscheid, St. Paul’s director of parks and

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Marathon Game , the world s oldest board game for distance runners and marathoners (established in 1979) is on the road to China for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Parent company, Millennium Marathon Games, Inc. announced that a new, dual- language

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Olympic Aquatics Center’s membrane structure completed
People’s Daily Online, China - Dec 26, 2006A major step in the construction of the showpiece venue for the 2008 Olympics was taken on Tuesday as the membrane structure of the outside layer of the …

Woman world’s best in Paralympics 
A swimmer since the age of 8, Kerley figured her time in the pool was all but said and done.

Officials wonder if velodrome is viable (Herald Standard)
BROWNSVILLE - Larry Segal said the state is willing to work with any developer that has a viable plan for downtown Brownsville but he said he’s not certain that the most recent proposal for downtown, construction of an Olympic-style bicycle racing facility, or velodrome, is such a proposal.

Reader’s View: Special Olympics visit shows China’s human rights progress 
For nine days this fall, China was a celebration of the human spirit. In a country where human rights have not traditionally been a priority, where families have been pulled apart by government policy, October’s dress rehearsal for the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games stood in stark relief.

Sweetwater turns 10: Craft brewer savors success 
One founder has adopted the job title of Big Kahuna. He and his accomplice’s idea of advertising is the company logo imprinted on a Frisbee. Their annual investors meeting bears resemblance to a beer bash. Now Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney, former college roomies who plunged into the suds business initially to secure free six-packs, are about to taste-test a fresh concept for their firm: …

Small U.S. Manufacturers Given Platform to Expand in China 
DMN Newswire–2006-12-23–China is an emerging market and after the trade mission by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and FED Chairman Ben Bernanke the opportunities for major U.S. businesses in China should expand.

Chinese sailors eye medals in 2008 Olympics
People’s Daily Online, China - Dec 4, 2006… sent more young athletes to Doha for the Asiad sailing event and the experienced at home are busy training for qualification for the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese …

Olympics director inspired by opening ceremony
China Daily, China - Dec 3, 2006… Games, from which the Beijing Olympic Games should learn much and get inspired, commented a senior member from the creation team for the 2008 Olympics here on …

China: Under Construction
CBS News - But look around a few corners and you see that other construction project the new venues going up fast for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. China can do all this quickly for a variety of reasons but the most important one is that no person

Update 2006: Support boosts ballet theater
Missoulian - The theater has been invited to perform at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The trip is expected to cost the company somewhere on the order of $137,000. We’re going to do a specific fundraising drive to make that happen, Budge said