Athletes are training there to play water polo in the Beijing Olympics.
Mr. JOEY CHEEK (Olympic Speed Skater): Going into 2008 in the Beijing Olympics, they're hosting this and they're really looking at this as a coming out party.
She won the 100-meter hurdles and 200-meter sprint, with at time in the hurdles that equaled the gold-medal time in the individual event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The world's fastest runners will crouch in the starting blocks at the Olympics in Beijing this summer, but Oscar Pistorius will not be among them.
As well as finishing fourth in the heptathlon at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Birmingham-based athlete also claimed a fifth-placed finish in the women's 4x400m relay.
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Jemma Lowe, who was sixth in the 100m butterfly at the Olympics in Beijing, won a bronze over 200m.
Simpson won a gold medal in sailing's Star class at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and silver at last year's Olympics, when Britain was the host nation.
His past dealings with water-filled goggles came in handy when that recurred during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in the 200-meter butterfly.
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Licences are expected to be issued by the government before the Beijing Olympics in the summer.
The 23-year-old, who won bronze at the 2007 championships, has won all of his 14 fights since losing in the second round of the Beijing Olympics.
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He did it for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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All that we have seen since, from entry into the World Trade Organization to Chinese-made toys at Wal-Mart to Louis Vuitton boutiques in Shanghai to the Beijing Olympics, started with that bit of ping-pong diplomacy.
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But the government is desperate to keep the lights burning and the air-conditioners humming in Beijing during the Olympics.
In the lead-up to the Olympics in 2008, Beijing announced a similar smoking ban and everyone completely ignored it.
The rules grow even stricter whenever the government is staging a high-profile event, such as the Beijing Olympics in 2008 or the Shanghai Expo in 2010.
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.
Radcliffe's return to form in New York and in the Great South Run came after a disappointing display at the Beijing Olympics where she finished 23rd in the Marathon.
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The year in sports will be dominated by China and the Beijing Summer Olympics, which take place in August.
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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In the Para sport 50m freestyle S9 it was Du Toit, who competed at the Beijing Olympics alongside able-bodied swimmers in the 10km open water event, who won gold in a time of 29.17 seconds.
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China's response to the Sichuan earthquake in May 2008 and the spectacular success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics were examples of how much China has progressed in this regard.
No one placed much hope in the process: China was patently concerned that protesting Tibetans should not take the gloss off the Beijing Olympics in August.
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In the same season he also ran inside the qualifying time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics - running 10.00 seconds in the 100 meters, just three one-hundredths of a second off his personal best - but failed in his bid to revoke his lifetime Olympic ban through the British courts.
Last year he became the first entertainer to perform in the Beijing Olympic Stadium since Olympics finished in 2008.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - in Beijing for the Olympics - condemned what he called Tbilisi's act of aggression.
He is one of the country's biggest stars and is credited with boosting China's interest in the NBA. During his nine seasons with the Houston Rockets, his games were broadcast on national television in China, and he was selected to carry China's flag during the opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
He faced Bolt in the 200m semi-final at the Beijing Olympics and could only finish seventh in 20.57 seconds.
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