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 ...

Some 34.2 million viewers watched the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2008. However, following the spectacular show, Western news reports charged that organizers of the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Known as "Diamond of the Bohai Gulf", Tianjin is the gateway to the Chinese capital Beijing ... the Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium covers 78,000 square meters, with a seating capacity of 60 ...

Summer Olympics will introduce new and returning sports, like flag football, cricket (returning for the first time since 1900 ...

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 ...