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.
In the lead-up to the Olympics in 2008, Beijing announced a similar smoking ban and everyone completely ignored it.
The government had previously lifted the ban temporarily for other large-scale events, including the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
The USA have suffered a string of failures and will now be forced to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Winning the bid to hold the 2008 Olympics in Beijing must have been a big morale-booster, but not enough to ensure smooth sailing at Beidaihe.
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.
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 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.
This is a brutal, passionate and, yes, partisan film about the Russian-led military offensive against the republic of Georgia in 2008, just as the glamorous Olympics were opening in Beijing.
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.
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.
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.
These corrupt officials and police don't want to lose that income, so they let brothels operate freely as long as they don't become hubs for more serious crimes, like drug sales, or violence--and as long as there isn't overwhelming political will to shut things down, as there was around the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the run up to the World Expo in Shanghai this year.
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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.
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.
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