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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He did it for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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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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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.
Some 214 million viewers watched the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, making it the most-watched event in television history.
The government had previously lifted the ban temporarily for other large-scale events, including the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
An estimated 700M people watched the 2010 World Cup final and nearly one billion viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Today this statuesque Jamaican is a seasoned cyclist who races for a professional U.S. road cycling team and is busy preparing for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
The ABA has made the offer, with the backing of Sport England, in an effort to persuade Khan to resist the financial lure of turning pro and to instead target a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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.
Expect a big boost in business starting next year: Supertex is working with Neo-Neon, a Chinese firm that is supplying lighting for the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing.
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.
Last year he became the first entertainer to perform in the Beijing Olympic Stadium since Olympics finished in 2008.
The motion also asks for a local cycle trail to be named after Kenny, who won his first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
After a fourth place at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Dobriskey was only a hundredth of a second away from gold at the Worlds last summer.
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.
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.
It means a heavier schedule than usual, but Robinson ran three marathons in 2008, finishing 13th in London and 24th at the Beijing Olympics.
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.
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.
Samsung says it will offer an 18-carat gold phone especially for the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.
Mr. Schwazer won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, setting an Olympic record in the 50-kilometer race walk.
Occupancy rates of more than 90% are propelling the company toward 80 operations by the end of this year and 200 by 2008, when the Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing.
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.
By comparison, Jamaican sprint hero Bolt was clocked at 3.78 for the same distance on his way to gold in a record-breaking 100 meters time at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
He finally won his case in 2008, but failed to run the qualifying time for the Beijing Olympics.
It also develops its own PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell generators and has a growing business in China, where it will power the buses for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
An Achilles tendon injury hampered him at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he didn't medal, and he missed the bronze in London by 0.63 seconds after tangling with another runner.
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.
The Beijing Olympics, for instance, started on the eighth day of the eighth month in 2008.
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