This party is led by Abdul Haq, who threatened attacks on the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing and was recently added to the Treasury Department's terrorist list.
The product, which has yet to be approved in the U.S., is already available and being used in India, Pakistan, and China, where the product was deployed during the Olympics games in Beijing.
In men's BMX cycling, Latvia's Maris Strombergs won the gold, defending his Olympics title won at the Beijing Games.
Barcelona, which hosted the games in 1992, and Beijing used the Olympics to launch their own ambitions on the world stage.
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The congress didn't come to Beijing until 2002 (and China lost its first Olympics bid, though the games will arrive next year).
The best resource for moments like these would be the documentary archive of Bud Greenspan, who filmed many Olympics, from the Los Angeles Games, in 1984, to Beijing (he died in 2010) except that almost none of his work has been issued on DVD.
Barack Obama's second presidential campaign was not as dramatic as his first, and the London Olympics were easier for news outlets to cover than the 2008 games in Beijing, which meant many AP customers relied less on its services.
Legacy for the sports venues -- making sure they won't be white elephants after the Games -- will differentiate London from last year's Olympics in Beijing, Hula said.
The Commonwealth Games concluding in New Delhi this week were supposed to do for India what the Beijing Olympics allegedly did for China: Prove to the world that it had truly arrived.
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The Belgian, bidding for back to back grand slams at the Australian Open later this month, won the first eight games against Molik, who is returning to major tournament action after being sidelined since the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
So I don't that that's going to be a trend, but I think, once again, it highlights the awful air quality in Beijing, which is - I think - going to be the biggest story of the games going into the Olympics, of course, in five months.
Pacific Time on Friday, the day of the Opening Ceremony, Twitter says the volume of tweets mentioning the Olympics surpassed the cumulative number of such tweets posted during the entire span of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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