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 […]
An ancient Japanese Buddhist temple, which cancelled its role in the protest-marred Olympic torch relay, has been vandalised with white spray paint, police said Sunday.
The Zenkoji Temple in Nagano, the host city of the 1998 Winter Olympics, on Friday withdrew from plans to be the start point for the Japanese leg of the relay on […]
After a tumultuous journey trough London, with powerful protest from Tibetan activists that ended in a clash with the police force, the run of the Olympic flame thorough San Francisco on Wednesday will definitely be accompanied with further protests.
Senator Hilary Clinton herself urged President George W. bush to boycott the event. In protest against […]
Yesterday, during a grandiose ceremony that took place at Olympia in Greece, the flame for the 2008 Olympic Games in China was lit. The actresses playing the role of ancient priestess from the Temple of Hera offered the spectators present at the site and the TV audience an impressive show broadcasted worldwide.
The flame was lit […]
Several hundred Tibetan activists marched though New York Monday calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics and urging the United Nations to listen to their appeals for independence from China.
Waving Tibetan flags and banners reading “China out of Tibet Now!” and dragging a Chinese flag along the ground, marchers chanted anti-Chinese slogans accusing Beijing […]
The famous action fights movie star, Jackie Chan, showed another side of his personality by trading his fighting fists for riding boots and a saddle to promote the Beijing Olympics’ equestrian event, which will be held in his hometown Hong Kong.
In the 30-second video, Chan urges audiences to visit Hong Kong to watch the event […]