America's George Bush and France's Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed they would attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Beijing .
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").
China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005 and 20 per cent of the power supply to the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will come from wind generators, according to the official state agency, Xinhua.
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.
Not only would it show the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, but it will be the focus for a celebration marking the handover ceremony at the close of the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday 24 August and be a permanent feature in the city.
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.
Stimulated by the prospect of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the Shanghai World Fair two years later, the Chinese government wants to build 1, 000 new museums by 2015 including 32 in Beijing and 100 in Shanghai and both cities already have biennali of their own.
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Meanwhile, the lighting in Olympia, Greece, of the flame for the Olympic games to be held in Beijing in August was briefly disrupted by protesting press-freedom activists.
But if the appeal is successful it could clear the way for Gatlin to receive a two-year ban for the 2006 test and become eligible to compete in May, a month ahead of the US Olympic trials for the Beijing Games.
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Dell's service techies have 400 caches of spare parts stashed around the world, and the service team has focused particular attention on improving its logistics in Beijing, in advance of the upcoming Olympic Games.
World champion Cavendish had been strongly tipped to finally claim the Olympic medal that had eluded him at the 2008 Games in Beijing, where he was the only member of Britain's track cycling team to return from the games without a medal.
Chen was relishing the renewal of his apartment lease, normally a mundane affair but currently no small feat in Beijing as the clock ticks toward the start of the Olympic Games on August 8.
Such feelings were tamed by the West's sympathetic response to an earthquake in Sichuan Province in May 2008 that killed 70, 000 people, and by the decision of Western leaders (Mr Bush especially) to attend the Olympic games in Beijing in August that year.
In "Beijing 2008--The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, " players compete as Olympic athletes in the hammer throw, table tennis and swimming.
"The eligibility of the athletes has already been investigated and authorized by the international federation and, if they hadn't been cleared, they wouldn't have participated in the games, " said Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Olympic Committee.
He was a sparring partner of boxer James DeGale, who won a gold medal in the Beijing Olympic Games.
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Norgrove was a sparring partner of boxer James DeGale, who won a gold medal in the Beijing Olympic Games.
Residents of Beijing, who hoped the clear skies they enjoyed during the 2008 Olympic Games would persist, have also resumed their grumbling.
At a meeting in Beijing of the International Olympic Committee, Liu Jingmin, of China's games-organising team, said he was confident the international component could be completed.
We first provided clips on our channel on YouTube during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games across the region, and since then have continued to provide footage of past Olympic Games across the world on our YouTube channel.
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Many underground housing facilities were temporarily closed down before Beijing's Olympic games in 2008 and again in 2009, before the 60th-anniversary celebrations of communist China's founding.
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