It is no secret that Chinese love number 8 and it is considered auspicious. SO on August 8th,, the eight month of year 2008 when the time is eight, China will have signalled to the world the emergence of a new superpower in world which has organized the Olympic Games. What better than Quadruple 8 to signify this.
Welcome to the world of Ni Hao, How are you? welcome to the Forbidden City. World has finally come to a enviable civilization and China by hosting it has recolored the history. Olympics is as ancient as Greeks and Chinese are as modern as any superpower in world. The convergence of the Olympics with power Of China in sports will be an unmatched effort in 2008 Olympics. China is bound to give tough competition to the other countries.
Though the principal venue is the Birds's Nest, China has multiple venues. As you an see the centre of beijing is Forbidden city and Tinnamean square in red. around the birds nest as you go towards the Great Wall North, slight northeast, you find the Birds Nest. Most Olympic venues are around this principal venue. The other venues like water sports, basket ball games, archery are spread around the city.
The mascots of Olympics are like the olympic rings. They signify the idea to be friendly with children around the world. Children love animals and the five mascots represent the most famous animals and birds from China.
a) Fish
b) Panda
c) Tibetan Antelope
d) Swallow
e) Olympic Flame
The olympic opening games are already mired in controversy as Korean broadcaster has published the unauthorized footage and subsequent Internet links were removed. Storm over rights, censorship grows as Olympics nears. Condemning China as "the world's biggest jailer of journalists," the World Association of Newspapers yesterday called on the IOC to make China keep its commitment. Reporters Without Borders said it was "yet another broken promise" by China since it was awarded the Games. This blatant media censorship adds one more broken promise that undermines the claim that the Games would help improve human rights in China," Amnesty East Asia researcher Mark Allison said.
A spokesman for the Beijing Games organizing committee said censorship would not prevent journalists from reporting the Games, though he acknowledged there would be no access to some Web sites.
"A small number of Internet sites are blocked, mainly because they violate Chinese law," Sun Weide said. "We hope that foreign media will respect Chinese law in this matter."
Mr. Sun identified sites linked to the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which is outlawed in China, as ones that would remain censored for the foreign press at Olympic venues.
Doping , sex determination are the two principal factors that will determine how successful the olympics of 2008 will be. This is in additon to negative things you might have heard about things like bad air, algae, locusts, terrorism, Tibet, Darfur, freedom of the press and human rights, or lack thereof.
Olympics was supposed to be the best marketing opportunity for coporates and multinational companies. After IBM withdrew, this year Olympics was being hyped as a blockbuster for marketers, a chance to ride the wave of Chinese national pride that may translate into billions of dollars in sales of Adidas sneakers, McDonald's (MCD) Big Macs, or General Electric (GE) wind turbines. But Beijing 2008 is likely to go down as the high-water mark of the Olympic sponsorship program. While the Games offer unique attractions to sponsors, multinationals are already looking more critically at whether the payback will be worth it for future Games. Of the 12 global sponsors for the Beijing Olympics, only eight have signed on for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and 2012 Summer Games in London. (The International Olympic Committee sells sponsorships in four-year increments to cover both Winter and Summer Games.)
There are 9 new events introduced this time -
Two from the new cycling discipline of BMX. Women will compete in the 3000 m steeplechase for the first time. Marathon swimming events for men and women over the distance of 10 kilometers. Team events (men and women) in table tennis will replace the doubles events. In fencing, women’s team foil and women’s team sabre will replace men’s team foil and women’s team epee.
Now to India, The medal hopefuls for India
- Dola Banerjee : Archery Medal hopeful.
- Manavjit Singh Sandhu : Clay Pigeon Trap shooting Medal hopeful
- Abhinav Bindra : 10M Air pistol Medal hopeful
- Rajyavardhan Rathore - Shooting(Double Trap Men)
- Anju Bobby George - Athletics (Long Jump)
- Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati - Tennis (Mens Doubles)
- Dinesh Kumar - Boxing (-81 kg category)
- Sania Mirza - Tennis (Womens Singles)
The Indian Squad for Beijing Olympics 2008:
(courtesy IBNLive)
For the first time India is sending a team of swimmers to the Beijing Games. So below is the list of members from India at the Beijing Olympics.
Archery: Dola Banerjee, Pranitha Vardhineni, L Bombayala Devi, Mangal Singh Champia.
Athletics: Anju Bobby George (Long Jump), Krishna Poonia (Discus), Harwant Kaur (Discus), Preeja Sreedharan (10,000m), Manjit Kaur (400m), Chitra Soman (4×400m relay), Sini Jose (4×400m relay),MR Poovamma (4×400m relay), Mandeep Kaur (4×400m relay), S Geeta (4×400m relay), K Mridula (4×400m relay), J J Shobha (Heptathlon), Sushmita Singh Roy (Heptathlon), G G Pramila (Heptathlon),Vikas Gowda (Discus), Renjith Maheswary (Triple Jump), Surender Singh (10000m).
Badminton: Anup Sridhar, Saina Nehwal
Boxing: Jitender (51kg), Akhil Kumar (54kg), A L Lakhra (57kg), Vijender(75kg) and Dinesh Kumar (81kg)
Judo: Khumujam Tombi Devi, Divya. Rowing: Bajrang Lal Takhar (Single M1X), Devnder Khandwal and Manjeet Singh (Light Weight Double Scull).
Shooting: Manavjit Singh Sandhu (Clay Pigeon Trap), Mansher Singh (Clay Pigeon Trap), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Clay Pigeon Double Trap), Gagan Narang (10m Air Rifle), Abhinav Bindra (10m AirRifle), Samresh Jung (10m Air Pistol), Sanjeev Rajput (50m Rifle 3 Position), Anjali Bhagwat (50m Rifle 3 Position), Avneet Kaur Sidhu (10m Air Rifle).
Swimming: Virdawal Khade (50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle), Ankur Poseria (100m Butterfly), Sandeep Sejwal (100m, 200m Breaststrokes), Rehan Poncha (200m butterfly).
Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal, Neha Aggarwal.
Tennis: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi (doubles), Sania Mirza (singles and doubles), Sunitha Rao (doubles). Weightlifting: L Monika Devi (69kg)
Wrestling: Sushil Kumar (66 kg Freestyle), Yogeshwar Dutt (60 kg Freestyle), Rajiv Tomar (120 kg Freestyle).
Yachting: Major NS Johal (Heavyweight Dinghy).
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