2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Everybody wants to make a good impression for important guests, but it’s almost like an episode of “Extreme Makeover” here these days.
With a price tag of $43 billion, the Summer Games that will open Aug. 8 in Beijing are the most expensive in Olympic history. The transformation, however, goes far beyond the eye-popping architecture. The […]

Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) has decided to pull out Bulgaria’s national weightlifting team from the upcoming summer Olympics in Beijing on August 8-24.
The news came after an ad hoc session of BOC, held on June 30 2008, BOC’s head Stefka Kostadinova (no relation) said in a statement on BOC’s webiste.
The entire team of eleven top Bulgarian […]