Beijing 2008 - Games of the XXIX Olympiad - August 8th to the 24th, 2008

BEIJING -- It seemed like a great idea last year, starting a hotel-reservation Web site for this summer's Olympic Games. Companies had been calling travel agencies 17 months in advance to book rooms.

Beijing Olympics Dream team A new animated series that will follow the Olympic games

Beijing Olympics Dream team A new animated series that will follow the Olympic games

There might be a record number of video cameras in Beijing this summer, but the vamped up restrictions on digital rights the International Olympic Committee announced earlier this week will leave squadrons of TV teams and citizens journalists with a lot less to cover. NBC paid a record $894 million for rights to broadcast the games and understandably wants to make sure no one encroaches on them,...

Sri Lanka's National Olympic Committee has finalized the list of its athletes who will represent the nation at the forthcoming Olympic Games to be held at the Chinese capital, Beijing, this year.

Beijing stresses it is "against politicising the Olympics" following an IOC rebuke over comments by an official in Tibet.

BEIJING -- China has stationed a battery of ground-to-air missiles just 300 yards from a Beijing Olympic venue, the latest sign of tightening security with the games just 6 1/2 weeks away.

http://www.scmp.com/video With more than 3 million cars in Beijing, it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most gridlocked and polluted cities. From July 20th, Beijing will introduce temporary traffic restrictions to ease congestion and curb pollution ahead of the Olympic Games.

BEIJING -- Half of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads during the Olympics to help clean the city's noxious air for the games.

http://www.scmp.com/video We take a sneak preview of Beijing's ultimate gentrification project - Qianmen Street. With its history dating back over 300 years, 9.2 billion yuan was spent restoring the street to its former glory in time for the Olympics. But officials revealed that it will not be open the Games begin.

2008 Olympian brothers Markus and Steffen Deibler of Germany talk about training and their connection to technology leading into the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Learn more about the Deibler brothers and the Olympic Games at http://2008.lenovo.com.

China Combats Political Protestors Ahead of This Summer's Olympic Games in Beijing

Find out why Nick Bonner, a resident in Beijing, won't be staying for the Olympics. Instead, he will be in Pyongyang to witness the Mass Games - the iconic gymnastics performance of North Korea.

IN China preparations are underway for the Olympic Games and: China will test bridge and chess players for performance-enhancing drugs at the first World Mind Sports Games in Beijing in October. The games comprise four mind sports — including checkers and Go — and about 3,000 participants from about 100 countries will compete for 35 gold medals in the inaugural Games, Oct. 3-18, a few weeks after ...

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - For the two Palestinian swimmers traveling to the Beijing Olympics, simply being at the Games will be an achievement. Hamza Abdu can sometimes train in a 25-meter pool but there are no Olympic standard (50-meter) pools in the Palestinian territories. Israeli travel restrictions prevent team mate Zakaya Nassar from training in Nazareth. Abdu is looking forward to experiencing ...

The Queen's granddaughter has been forced to pull out of the Beijing Games because her horse is injured.

Swimmer Nick D'Arcy will appeal after officially being sacked from Australia's team for the Beijing Games.

Swimming world record holder Eamon Sullivan on his preparation for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, his growing fame and the Lenovo Hope Fund Auction. Learn more about Eamon Sullivan and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at http://2008.lenovo.com.

Swimming world record holder Eamon Sullivan on his preparation for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, his growing fame and the Lenovo Hope Fund Auction. Learn more about Eamon Sullivan and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at http://2008.lenovo.com.

Wright Thompson talks with Bob Ley about the Olympic Games in Beijing

ATHENS (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that serious doping offenders at the Beijing Olympics would be banned from the next Games. The IOC's Executive Board approved an eligibility rule that was initially to be voted on during the IOC's Session in Beijing and come into effect only after the 2008 Games. The rule states that any athlete who is sanctioned for six month...

Doping offenders at the Beijing Olympics will be banned from the next Games in London.

ATHENS (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that serious doping offenders at the Beijing Olympics would be banned from the next Games. The IOC's Executive Board approved an eligibility rule that was initially to be voted on during the IOC's Session in Beijing and come into effect only after the 2008 Games. The rule states that any athlete who is sanctioned for six month...

Unique News this week...Beijing. The Dodgers are 50 years old. ME TUBE? Find out more about it. Plus Happy Birthday to Alec Baldwin, Eddie Murphy, Doris Day, my friends Rich, Jon, Mike, George, Gary, and John David who all have birthdays this week.

Just in time for the games, and for the Shanghai Expo in 2010, Chinese media company Network CN is launching the first phase of its out-of-home advertising network. Covering Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Qingdao, Network CN's network currently consists of 117 roadside LED panels, 10 mega-size LED billboards, 69 light boxes and one mega-size roller-sheet billboard. In collaboratio...

Just in time for the games, and for the Shanghai Expo in 2010, Chinese media company Network CN is launching the first phase of its out-of-home advertising network. Covering Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Qingdao, Network CN's network currently consists of 117 roadside LED panels, 10 mega-size LED billboards, 69 light boxes and one mega-size roller-sheet billboard. In collaboratio...

From housing to hotels, over 8,000 construction sites of scaffolds and cranes dot the Beijing skyline. GE is providing innovative solutions to more than 350 infrastructure projects in and around Beijing, including work at all 37 official Olympic venues and 168 commercial buildings. Get more Olympic news at: http://www.ge.com/news/olympic_games/index.html

Australia's Olympic team is defying Coca-Cola and taking its own water supplies to the Beijing Games.

Australia's Olympic team is defying Coca-Cola and taking its own water supplies to the Beijing Games.