Despite its high-profile sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics, Visa has been virtually shut out in favor of government-backed China UnionPay.
This is the precision and scale and theatre of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics ten-fold.
"As I ran, I wished for the success of the Beijing Olympics and peace, " Noguchi said.
This year Zhang Yimou, a film director who choreographed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, is to arrange a gala afterwards.
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.
Some local newspapers have even reported pregnant women requesting to deliver on August 8, by Cesarean section if necessary, to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
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.
He did not make the final of the Beijing Olympics 100m in 2008 as he attempted to come back from a hamstring injury at the US Olympic trials that knocked him out of the 200m.
The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and American Idol also received three creative arts trophies.
And after the disappointment of withdrawing from the Beijing Olympics last year, he feels he is learning quickly, as illustrated by his two-round victory over Walsall's Steve Saville last month.
Amelio and Yang had worked hand-in-hand for three years to transform Lenovo from a parochial Chinese company into a global tech player and one that spent tens of millions of dollars sponsoring the Beijing Olympics.
An estimated 700M people watched the 2010 World Cup final and nearly one billion viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Beijing Olympics -- Much of China's rocketing growth has been directed at making the 2008 Olympics its coming-out party.
Kenyon is in China as part of a delegation hoping to build relations between Beijing and London ahead of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
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There are now just 33 athletes receiving funding from the lottery programme with the likes of Andy Turner, who failed to get beyond the second round of the 110m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics, among those to be removed from the list.
The British sailing team's successes at the Beijing Olympics included a haul of six medals, four of them gold.
Samsung says it will offer an 18-carat gold phone especially for the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.
Vlasic was the only athlete to clear 2.04m for a victory that goes some way to making up for the disappointment of missing out on gold at the Beijing Olympics last summer.
In 2008, he became one of the presenters of the corporation's coverage from the Beijing Olympics.
And while the year's second-half results, particularly as they pertain to TV media, will likely be buoyed by the presidential election and the Beijing Olympics, Senior Vice President of Research Jon Swallen remains cautious.
Already, construction sites and factories in Beijing are preparing to stop work ahead of the Olympics.
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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Now, with Beijing poised for tomorrow's beginning of the Summer Olympics, a full-fledged hospitality campaign is under way.
This August Silverlight will be downloaded millions of times by sports fans who want to watch the Beijing Olympics online.
For all four members of the U.S. table tennis team, the Beijing Olympics will be like going home.
They also had their starter-alternator combinations in the hybrid Chery taxis that have run in Beijing since about a year prior to the start of the Olympics.
The cost of hosting the Olympics was evidently considered a sound investment for Beijing, and will be for Rio de Janeiro, as an announcement of a new found confidence and global status.
And she was given a clear indication, which she wanted, of where she is in her preparations for next year's Beijing Olympics.
Throughout the Olympics, there will be Beijing broadcasts not just of "The Today Show, " but "NBC Nightly News" and "Meet the Press, " as well.
The brothers and their sister Olivia, who won 4x100m silver at the Beijing Olympics, are now sponsored by a German brand of luxury cars.
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