baron-pierreIV Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Uh, this is a joke, right? Guys?Link: BBC: Mice Star As Olympic Food Tasters Well, they first thought of using 'Falun Gong/political prisoners' but then someone told them that wasn't 'cool.' So the mice are an acceptable alternative. Just don't tell PETA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Latest BBC article about Beijing 2008, which talks about the city "breathing it, living it, and 'worth dying for it'". Okay, the last one is the one I made up here: Link: BBC: Beijing Building The Olympic Dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 (edited) Latest BBC article about Beijing 2008, which talks about the city "breathing it, living it, and 'worth dying for it'". Okay, the last one is the one I made up here:Link: BBC: Beijing Building The Olympic Dream If you guys have remotely got the following BBC channels, which are the following, then you may see one of the BBC journalists make a full-day coverage about Beijing 2008 today: - BBC News 24; - BBC World; or, - BBC1's Breakfast. Carrie Gracie, the journalist in question here, is broadcasting "all-day" about how Beijing is going about preparing for the 2008 Olympic Games and how China is embracing the event big time. Edited November 21, 2006 by Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 So, can London learn from Beijing 2008 on how to prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games? Link: BBC: Olympic Games The Chinese Way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainad Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 So, can London learn from Beijing 2008 on how to prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games? Not really,not unless Britain becomes a one-party,totalitarian dictatorship like China.Then it can spend as much money on the Olympics as it wants,chuck people out of their homes at a moment's notice to make way for the venues,order as much cheap,non-unionised labour as it needs,and do all this without having to worry a jot about public opinion or newspapers asking awkward questions!! London will have to do it the democratic way and that means learning from the likes of Sydney or Athens.They got there and so will London! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Not really,not unless Britain becomes a one-party,totalitarian dictatorship like China.Then it can spend as much money on the Olympics as it wants,chuck people out of their homes at a moment's notice to make way for the venues,order as much cheap,non-unionised labour as it needs,and do all this without having to worry a jot about public opinion or newspapers asking awkward questions!! London will have to do it the democratic way and that means learning from the likes of Sydney or Athens.They got there and so will London! Yeah, considering that when I first saw that article at that time, it was considered the "most seen BBC article of the day." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Positive news about Beijing 2008 made at the IOC Executive Board meeting at Kuwait City: Link: IOC-> Beijing 2008: BOCOG Reports Positive Progress To Kuwait EB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 One, British badminton players want to be ready for Beijing 2008: Link: BBC: Britain Earmark Olympic Hopefuls Two, this show from the BBC could be interesting, in terms on how BOCOG is dealing with the city's environment issue in preparing for the 2008 Olympic Games. The same can be said about London 2012, too: Link: Earth Report Episode: A Tale Of Two Cities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 When Alexandre Despatie of Canada goes to Beijing 2008, depending on if he does qualify to go there, it will be about 10 years since his Commonwealth Games gold medal win at Kuala Lumpur 1998 in diving at the tender age of 13. Never mind he will have to compete against a powerful Chinese men's diving on their home soil: Link: CBC: Diver Despatie Returns From Injury To Begin The March To The 2008 Olympics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted December 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 When Alexandre Despatie of Canada goes to Beijing 2008, depending on if he does qualify to go there, it will be about 10 years since his Commonwealth Games gold medal win at Kuala Lumpur 1998 in diving at the tender age of 13. Never mind he will have to compete against a powerful Chinese men's diving on their home soil:Link: CBC: Diver Despatie Returns From Injury To Begin The March To The 2008 Olympics yea the chinese diving team will be extremely hard to beat in 2008 on home soil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 First, it was the Olympic athletes. Now, France has been reported that it will reward its PARALYMPIANS with money prizes, should any of them win a medal at the Beijing 2008 PARALYMPIC Games: Link: BBC: Equal Pay For French Paralympians Do you guys think this is a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Was the dragon considered to be an Olympic mascot for 2008? Even though it may have been possible, it was quashed by perceptions about what a dragon is about in other parts of the world other than China: Link: BBC: Fiery Debate Over China's Dragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 First, it was the Olympic athletes. Now, France has been reported that it will reward its PARALYMPIANS with money prizes, should any of them win a medal at the Beijing 2008 PARALYMPIC Games:Link: BBC: Equal Pay For French Paralympians Do you guys think this is a good idea? If anything, the Paralypians could always use the money. The fully-limbed athletes have a lot of monetary opportunities that the handicapped athletes never will have. So I say, YES!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 (edited) Okay, I need to go figure on this news. The Qingdao sailing venue for Beijing 2008 is "inadequate?" Speaking of that off-hand typo in the South Africa 2010 topic about the dates for the event, we might as well apply that to these sailing events, too. Imagine this: all the Olympic medal races for the sailing events "could be held in ONE DAY." You think I'm exaggerating? Try clicking on the link below and read the BBC article: Link: BBC: 2008 Sailing Organisers Confident They are confident about that? I don't know, if Rogge really likes that, since he was an Olympic sailor for Belgium in the past. Edited December 14, 2006 by Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 Okay, China wiped the rest of the competition at the Doha 2006 Asian Games. According to the BBC article, Chinese officials were reported to have said that "it was NOT ENOUGH" afterwards. Like, there should be MORE IMPROVEMENTS from their athletes "in order to beat the USA" in 2008. Talk about a bit of Cold War rhetoric here: Link: BBC: Dominant China Seeks More In 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rav3n Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Damn, as always, the chinese exploiting their people, no matter if they suceed on everything, they already crushed all the asian teams with a great medals difference and IS NOT ENOUGH?? Well, i guess if they want to beat USA they should train more harder, but hope there will be not repressions against them in two years if they fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Well, I hear that CHinese athletes who fail to deliver in 2008 will: 1. Not be able to travel abroad; 2. Go to concentration camps for more training; and 3. Their families will be sent away to Tibet. I am not surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Wow. A European team has already qualified to go to Beijing 2008: Link: IOC: Norwegian Women's Team On The Road To Beijing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 They is already a good number of teams qualified for Beijing, including the USA and Cuba (Baseball), Australia (Basketball - Women), Spain (Basketball - Men), Korea and Pakistan (Hockey - Men), Japan (Hockey - Women), USA, Japan, Australia and Canada (Softball). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Oceania have been given tw automatic qualifing spots for womens hockey which should see new zealand and australia both automatically qualify unless fiji can pull off the upset of the century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 (edited) Will there be a "united Korea" team for Beijing 2008? Only time will tell: Link: IOC: A Step Furthur Towards A Unified Korean Team In 2008 And, she will be 50 years old when she wants to compete for gold in Beijing 2008. However, it will be interesting on how she will do in the CYCLING events there, if she does qualify to go: Link: BBC: Veteran Longo Targets 2008 Games Edited December 23, 2006 by Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted December 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Will there be a "united Korea" team for Beijing 2008? Only time will tell:Link: IOC: A Step Furthur Towards A Unified Korean Team In 2008 And, she will be 50 years old when she wants to compete for gold in Beijing 2008. However, it will be interesting on how she will do in the CYCLING events there, if she does qualify to go: Link: BBC: Veteran Longo Targets 2008 Games wow i will be very suprised if she does qualify but you never no stranger things have happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTHarner Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 That would be an inspiration to those of us who are not even close to 50 yet feel we are past our athletic prime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted December 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 it would definately be. Does any one no what has happened to Merlene Otty? Is she still competing or has she retired, after she pulled out during the semi finals of the 200m in athens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 it would definately be. Does any one no what has happened to Merlene Otty? Is she still competing or has she retired, after she pulled out during the semi finals of the 200m in athens? Well, I am not certain. I haven't heard of her retiring yet and could be still competing for Slovenia, come Beijing 2008: Link: Merlene Ottey (Note: Since the link above goes to that Wikipedia page, do not assume that it is all true.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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