The Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium will serve as one of the Football venues during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The stadium lies inside the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre on the ...

Stadium architect Ai Weiwei refused to ... times the cost of the 2004 Games in Athens. For instance, Beijing 2008 was the first Olympic Games to provide a Wi-Fi connection to journalists so ...

Fireworks across China's capital as a crowd of more than 90,000 at the landmark "Bird's Nest" National Stadium watched ... Johnson received the Olympic flag from Beijing Mayor Go Jinlong.

but also a rendition of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and music written specifically for the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. The official ceremony began with IPC President Sir Philip Craven and ...

BEIJING--Behavior by athletes that violates the Olympic spirit or Chinese rules could be subject to punishment, a Beijing 2022 official said, after rights groups voiced concern about the safety of ...

Chaoyang Park, Beijing's largest park, was home to a temporary 12,200-seat stadium that held 17,000 tons of sand from ... of the sports that came through for the home country. Greece's Olympic Beach ...

Greece on Tuesday handed over the Olympic flame to organisers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games ... Committee Yu Zaiqing at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, where the ancient Games were revived ...