The Torch relay in Buenos Aires
April 12, 2008
Torch-bearer soccer player Cristian Gonzalez carry the Olympic torch during the Buenos Aires tour, Friday, April 11, 2008. Runners flanked by rows of security carried the Olympic torch past thousands of jubilant Argentines as China supporters in red windbreakers tried to reverse weeks of bad publicity for the host of the Summer Games.(AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez)
U.S. Women’s Team Qualifies For 2008 Olympics
April 10, 2008
The US womens soccer team clinch a spot in the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a 3-0 victory over Costa Rica in the semifinal of 2008 CONCACAF Olympic Women’s Qualifying. Read more here
Olympics as usual, politics as usual
April 10, 2008
Is the dream of an Olympics that is only about sports and athleticism gone? Read more
Olympics Terrorist Plot Foiled by China
April 10, 2008
Chinese authorities, announced today, that they foiled plots to kidnap foreigners and carry out suicide attacks around the Beijing Olympics. Read more
Olympic Marathon set for Tiananmen Square
January 3, 2008
China is planning on starting both the men’s and the woman’s marathon at Tiananmen Square and end at the Olympic stadium. Read more
Olympics and media changes in China
January 2, 2008
A recent Reuters article speaks about Chinas efforts to have more journalistic freedoms in China as the 2008 Olympic Games draw closer this year. China must balance between their usual keep everything under the covers and only let out what they deem appropriate and using this once in a lifetime chance to expose the world to their “5,000 year of splendid Chinese history”. Read more here in the Reuters article by Ben Blanchard.