Beach babes and cheerleaders at Olympic Beach Volleyball and Basketball

All these beautifull girls are in the International Beijing Dream Dance Cheer Squad. The Cheer Squad is a team of girls from a lot of different countries. With only two days to go for the start of the official...

Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics 2008 Fireworks

Update: i found out that this second rehersel is probably the rehersel for the fireworks of the Closing Ceremony. That makes sense to me. Because why should you rehersel the same fireworks twice? So this was...

iran in beijing 2008

Veteran Iranian taekwondo fighter Hadi Saei has claimed Beijing Olympics men’s welterweight gold medal by beating Italy’s Mauro Sarmiento. In the Friday men’s -80kg final, the Iranian world and Olympic...

Worldrecord for Olympic Wedding - the biggest Wedding Party in the World

May be you already know that the number 8 means good luck in China. So the perfect date is of course on 08-08-2008. For that reason the Official Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games shall start exactly at 8...

The end games for scales

The Olympics are coming to an end for me. As I depart to go back to Shanghai before I make my way to Europe for yet another technology conference, I reflect on my time here. This past week has been amazingly busy for my countrymen/women and me. Canada managed to make its...

Jihad Olympic Games - Warning video of Olympic attacks - Three more killed

Update: Three security officers were stabbed to death and another wounded in renewed violence in far northwest China's Xinjiang region on Tuesday. Source: Reuters Update: Suicide bombers kill 11 in west...

Zagunis Stays Sharp: US Gold in Women's Sabre

It's only the first day, and already several medals have been awarded. Reigning champion Mariel Zagunis brought the USA its first gold medal of 2008 by defeating Sada Jacobson, also of the USA, in the Women's Individual Sabre. Becca Ward defeated Russian Sofiya Velikaya for...

Let the games begin - Play Fair

Today, i promised to write about the human rights in China. I selected the Play Fair organisation. They campaign for a fair salary. Campaigners in Hong Kong, backed by the Play Fair 2008 global coalition, have...

Women cleaned the largest square in the world: Tiananmen Square

Update: great work of the ladies. The whole square is clean. Time to start using it. So the first thing the Chinese did was making a few entrances so nobody can go on the square without notice. Good example of...

Beijing is beautifull decorated with 40 million flowers, sandsculptures and more

Update: More and more sculptures and nice decorations are finished. See some nice sand-sculptures. Photos added. So, the work is done. Beijing did a tremendous job on greening the city. With just 17 days to go...

Dutch weatherinstitute KNMI launches Olympic Weather and Air Pollution Website

Ductch weatherinstitute KNMI announced today to provide all kind of information about weather conditions, humidity, air-pollution (dust particles), temperature, rain, ozone and the Heat Stress Index. KNMI will...

Olympic volunteers ready for the Olympic Opening Ceremony

Thousands, thousands, say many, many thousands of volunteers are ready for the Olympic Games. Nobody kows exactly how much volunteers are involved. Some sources say 100.000, others go even up to 500.000....

Hello Macerena - Philippines cheer-squad ready for the Games

It seems to me that the Phillippines are also ready with the biggest cheer-squad in the world. Great work after months of excercise. Well the have time enough. Looks very perfect to me.   The new Jon...

Olympic medal-girls selected out of thousands of candidates

Update: with only a short week to go all Olympic Medal girls are still full in training. When you see the pictures they seem to be prepared for every situation. Well see for your self. Yesterday the final slection...

Anti-terrorist training speeding-up in Beijing China

Update: Police and special forces are under highest level of security with only 8 days to go. See latest pictures of training activity. The water around the Bird's Nest is inspected by a massive team of divers and...

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