From that point of view, the failure of the Beijing Olympics to bring any of the promised (or more accurately, hoped-for) changes in China's policy towards dissent was probably the biggest disappointment of 2008.
China will not jeopardize the success of the Beijing Olympics by engaging in a clash of arms across the Taiwan Strait.
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.
But this year's outbreak has caused unusual nervousness because it comes just three months before the start of the Beijing Olympics in August.
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.
But officials are acutely aware that Tibet grips public attention in the West far more than China's connections with Sudan hitherto the main stalking horse of critics of Beijing's Olympics.
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.
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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.
Reports circulated online this week that Zhang Yimou, director of "The Flowers of War" starring Christian Bale and also known as the architect of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, has seven children from his two marriages and from relationships with two other women.
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.
Another danger is that too much anti-foreign sentiment will scuttle China's effort to play the gracious host in August, when hundreds of thousands of visitors will descend on Beijing for the Olympics.
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.
Maybe Chinese authorities have just given up trying to figure out how to make good use of the facilities left over from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The last thing you might have expected at Beijing's Olympics are swaths of empty seats in a country with a population amounting to a fifth of humanity.
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.
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