Few in that country can forget the impressive sight of Li Ning, himself in a track suit of his own design, being hoisted up at the Bird Nest stadium to light the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Despite a smoggy start to the day, visibility at the Bird's Nest improved in the hours before the event began.
Also known as the 'bird's nest', it will be the focal point of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.
Tomorrow, thousands of athletes will march into the city's main stadium, known as the Bird's Nest.
He said it was "good news" the officers had controlled the fire before it could reach the bird's nest.
They say they can keep rain from falling on the Bird's Nest Stadium during the opening ceremony - the stadium has no roof - but scientists elsewhere are dubious about that kind of technology.
The Chinese artist, activist, and architect who designed the Olympic "Bird's Nest" stadium, is one of the leaders behind the cyber battle.
Among Palawan's deep trove of wildlife, the most precious to the local economy, Gustillo explains, is the swiftlet, a small darting bird whose nests, built largely of its own spittle, are the essential ingredient in bird's nest soup.
The six-foot-long nose, with a bird's nest swaying at the end of it, was somebody else's thought.
I've one hen left that has a nest inside the bird room and she's now got no mate so she's left the eggs.
It also said climbers must play a role in protecting the environment by avoiding wild bird nest sites and not slinging climbing ropes around trees.
Suntech will be supplying solar power to Beijing's Bird Nest Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Beijing's Bird's Nest, the wonder of the world in 2008, is underused, goggled at by day-trippers and the odd concert-goer.
They found that, over the course of the breeding season, deserting the nest once eggs had been laid boosted the number of descendants produced by the bird that fled.
It struck her that a dish, titled "Birth, " using the remnants of her foie gras supply combined with a bird's nest, would represent a new beginning.
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The nest was daubed with white paint in an attempt to imitate bird droppings, so the birds would think it was an established nesting site.
On China's Internet, blogs, bulletin boards and news sites carry photos of automobiles jerry-rigged to run on railroad tracks ("shanzhai trains"), fluffy dogs trimmed and dyed to look like the national mascot ("shanzhai pandas") and models of the Beijing Olympic Games' National Stadium made out of sticks ("shanzhai Bird's Nest").
Historically, all the expensive and most sought-after food ingredients have been those with purported health benefits - consider bird's nest soup or sea cucumber.
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