2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing China Blog

Thornberry has found long term success with Potters cross country
Review - All Long did was break a school record in the high jump in his first meet, then went on to be a NCAA champion and participate in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Things didn t always go quite that smoothly, however, for Thornberry and the Potters. East

China addresses ugly side in run-up to Olympics
Chicago Tribune - Her quest has caught the attention of a nation filled with pride at playing host to the 2008 Summer Olympics. It also has brought scrutiny of a less-welcome sort, as her father, Zhang Jianmin, garners criticism for pushing her too hard at an age when

USA rebounds to take third in Women’s World Cup
USA Today - With four wins, one loss and a tie, the team can now regroup and prepare for another big tournament in China, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. History is on their side. Since women’s soccer debuted in the 1996 Atlanta Games, the U.S. women have

Man convicted of fraud for phony Olympics website (China Daily)
HAIKOU — A man in south China’s island province of Hainan has been arrested for fraud for operating a phony official Olympics Web site, local police said Sunday.

China to display its human side during Special Olympics - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Shanghai - In the coming week, China will present itself to the world in a way that is different from what news headlines usually report about the country - with humanity. For the first time ever in Asia, the Special Olympic Games for people with int…

Golden Olympics shines (Macon Telegraph)
The 25th Annual Georgia Golden Olympics, which began Wednesday, wraps up today in Warner Robins.

Newswires: United Wins Global Campaign For 2008 Summer Olympics (AdWeek.com via Yahoo! News)
BOSTON The International Olympic Committee last week tapped WPP’s United for a global integrated marketing campaign.

India set to see more deals in M&A street
Economic Times - Further, infrastructure supply contracts for the 2008 Olympics would also lead to other large contracts throughout China in the next three to five years. In case of India, M&As are happening in all sectors, including retail, apparel, real

Carat Cut by J&J, Loses $400MM Account
MarketingVOX - Right now WPP’s main presence on the roster is a temporary assignment for Ogilvy & Mather, which has been tapped to handle multi-brand J&J work around the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and extensive research and consulting assignments for its

Update: Australian hurdler Jana Pittman Rawlinson opts to train
Celebrity Baby Blog - Update : Jana’s mother has responded as well. Update August 23rd : Jana’s mother-in-law has responded to your comments. Originally posted August 22nd : Jana Pittman Rawlinson , the Australian track and field star who predicted shortly after son

China Becomes Popular Issue in 2008 Race
Newsday - But as detractors increasingly shine a critical spotlight on China in the buildup to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the contenders will likely ratchet up their rhetoric on China’s ability to help and to hinder American interests around the world

Prague works out preliminary plan for Olympic sport grounds (People’s Daily)
Prague, who seeks host of the summer Olympic Games in 2016, has already worked out a preliminary map of Olympic sport grounds, the Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) reported on Wednesday. The major Olympic complex is to be built on th …

Wrestling champ Farid Mansurov to help Baku’s bid for 2016 Summer Olympics (Slam! Sports)
BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan has included world wrestling champion Farid Mansurov in its bid committee for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyubov will head Baku’s 32-member committee.

Ryan sizes up Chicago’s Olympic rivals (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago’s Olympic bid leader Patrick Ryan sized up rival cities publicly for the first time Thursday, telling business and civic leaders the city faces “very strong competition” in the fight to host the 2016 Summer Games.

Cycling: Zabriskie to race for Olympic team spot (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Cyclist David Zabriskie of Salt Lake City will compete today in the men’s time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Germany. He hopes to secure a spot in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games next summer.

Olympic basketball dream dies for Canadian women (CBC)
The hope of earning a berth at next summer’s Beijing Olympics ended Friday for Canada’s women’s basketball team in Valdivia, Chile.

Zimbabwe: Special Olympic Team Arrives in Shanghai (AllAfrica.com)
THE Zimbabwe Special Olympic Team to the World Summer Games arrived here yesterday afternoon after a grueling 17-hour journey, which saw them stopping in two commercial capitals on the way.

Golden Olympics shines (Macon Telegraph)
The 25th Annual Georgia Golden Olympics, which began Wednesday, wraps up today in Warner Robins.

China Readies for “No Car” Day Ahead of Olympics (Planet Ark)
BEIJING - China is holding a “no-car day” in 108 cities on Saturday as it tries to clean up its notoriously smoggy skies, a task made more urgent by the approach of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Washington skiers in training as Olympics venues take shape (Tacoma News Tribune)
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‘Everything looks on track for Beijing’: PADDLING Kayaker Furneaux confident of making it to the 2008 Olympics, but … (The Halifax Daily News)
Karen Furneaux, without hesitation, fires off the number of days until the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Anti-doping chief: Beijing to be cleanest Olympics in years (Pravda)
The World Anti-Doping Agency chief said Thursday that the 2008 summer Olympics were on track to be the most doping free in the sports spectacular’s recent history.

SLC’s Zabriskie is 12th in World Cycling time trial, misses Olympic bid (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Updated: 10:21 AM- Cyclist David Zabriskie of Salt Lake City faded to 12th in the men’s time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Germany on Thursday, missing an opportunity to qualify automatically for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China.

Dark clouds shroud Beijing before Olympics (Daily Telegraph)
Booming economy and sandstorms are giving the organisers of the 2008 Olympics a pollution headache, writes Oliver Brown

World anti-doping chief praises Beijing Olympics preparations, help in U.S. steroid raids (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency on Thursday praised China’s assistance in massive U.S. raids on illegal labs that recovered millions of doses of steroids, much of it originating in China.

Bans kick in for drug cheats after 2008 Olympics (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - IOC President Jacques Rogge said on Thursday that athletes who committed a serious doping offence would miss the following Olympics but the penalty would kick in only after the 2008 Games.

China Readies For “no car” Day Ahead of Olympics (Environmental News Network)
BEIJING - China is holding a “no-car day” in 108 cities on Saturday as it tries to clean up its notoriously smoggy skies, a task made more urgent by the approach of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Beijing has been blessed with clear autumnal skies all week, but will ban cars on some downtown streets while encouraging all drivers to leave their cars at home voluntarily.

Parker scores 21, U.S. beats Cuba by just 6
Alameda Times-Star - Only the winner of the tournament will earn an automatic bid for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The United States will face Jamaica today. Phoenix Suns forward Shawn Marion, the team’s highest-paid player and a four-time All-Star, says he wants to be

NU’s Octavien primed for big season
Grand Island Independent - She is training with Butts, who has since moved to Palmetto Ridge High (a new school in Naples), in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In any case, Octavien went home in May, after the university’s spring semester ended, and

China charges man with subversion over public call for Dalai Lama’s
Minneapolis Star Tribune - China often uses vaguely defined subversion laws to punish government critics, sometimes with long prison sentences. The indictment comes as China’s human rights record faces growing scrutiny ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. China’s

NU’s Octavien primed for big season
Grand Island Independent - She is training with Butts, who has since moved to Palmetto Ridge High (a new school in Naples), in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In any case, Octavien went home in May, after the university’s spring semester ended, and

China charges man with subversion over public call for Dalai Lama’s
Minneapolis Star Tribune - China often uses vaguely defined subversion laws to punish government critics, sometimes with long prison sentences. The indictment comes as China’s human rights record faces growing scrutiny ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. China’s

‘Everything looks on track for Beijing’: PADDLING Kayaker Furneaux confident of making it to the 2008 Olympics, but … (The Halifax Daily News)
Karen Furneaux, without hesitation, fires off the number of days until the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Xinhua launches Beijing Olympics News Service (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Beijing, Sep 28 (Xinhua) China’s Xinhua news agency launched the Beijing Olympics News Service (BONS) on a trial basis Friday to enhance its English language coverage of events and preparations for the 2008 Games in the Chinese capital.

Anti-doping chief: Beijing to be cleanest Olympics in years (Pravda)
The World Anti-Doping Agency chief said Thursday that the 2008 summer Olympics were on track to be the most doping free in the sports spectacular’s recent history.

Dark clouds shroud Beijing before Olympics (Daily Telegraph)
Booming economy and sandstorms are giving the organisers of the 2008 Olympics a pollution headache, writes Oliver Brown