BBC:
Bahrain's Olympic 1500m champion Rashid Ramzi is stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games. (Read More)
LA Times:
Yuan Weimin's book includes details of secret deals to get Beijing chosen to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Some have branded him a liar and a traitor, while others applaud his candor. (Read More)
Reuters: Sports News:
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Olympic champion Liu Zige expected to reclaim the women's 200 meters butterfly world record at the China National Games after earlier almost breaking the 100 record.
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washingtonpost.com - Sports:
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Beth Tweddle raised the domed roof at the O2 Arena on Sunday after she tumbled to glory on the floor exercise, while Olympic champion Zou Kai and his team mates showed China had lost none of the s (Read More)
Reuters: Lifestyle:
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - A year after Beijing hosted a spectacular summer Olympics, China's capital sees more blue skies and less traffic jams, but economic crisis and sensitive political anniversaries have tarnished the pos (Read More)
Reuters: Sports News:
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Sun Beach Theme Park was probably not the legacy foremost in the minds of Olympic organizers when they spent billions of dollars building the venues for last year's Beijing Games.
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Reuters: Sports News:
BERNE (Reuters) - Olympic 1,500 meters champion Rashid Ramzi appeared before an International Olympic Committee (IOC) disciplinary commission on Monday to give his version of events surrounding a positive doping test after th (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Sports:
LONDON -- Backup "B" sample tests came back positive for 1,500-meter gold medalist Rashid Ramzi and four other athletes accused of blood doping at the Beijing Games, an Olympic official with knowledge of the results told The (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
Speedskater Joey Cheek's mobilization of Olympians to speak out against China's support for Sudan in the period preceding last year's Beijing games is reminiscent of another Olympic speedskater who risked controversy by speak (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The Chinese online video funding boom may be abating a bit, but the timing of this one predates the economic crisis in its current form. PPS.tv, a Chinese online video site, has received $20 million in its third round of fund (Read More)
Beijing Olympics Games 2008:
Like a ghost waking up in the shell, the theater came to life with the colors, the voices and the music of its performances during the Beijing Olympic Games. The shell has opened up to the world. (Read More)
Reuters:
SEATTLE (Reuters) - As the world's best athletes compete in Beijing, the summer Olympic games are setting the stage for a battle between Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc over the Internet's next big competition.
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Reuters:
SEATTLE (Reuters) - As the world's best athletes compete in Beijing, the summer Olympic games are setting the stage for a battle between Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc over the Internet's next big competition.
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Beijing Olympics Games 2008:
I thought it kind of random but then found that its sort of a prelude to the 2010 Winter Olympics . We got to see the new 2010 Olympic mascots. See the pictures below! Old Beijing Wall Display 2 Old Beijing Wall Display Beiji (Read More)