Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games begin this month, a full year before the event opens on 8 August, 2008. The systems architecture for Beijing 2008 was finalised ...
The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...
The 2008 U.S. men's basketball team was out for revenge when they came together for the Beijing Olympics. After completing a disappointing bronze finish in Athens, the world wanted only one thing: ...
Kamaltürk Yalqun, an ethnic Uyghur, was once chosen as an Olympic torchbearer for China ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, when he was a student at the age of 17. Fourteen years later, ...
FILE - Fireworks explode over Beijing's Tiananmen Square to help mark the closing of the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Aug. 24, 2008. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics open in just over a week.
When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Games could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same.Such talk is all but ...
The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics showcased China’s reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human ...