Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games Revealed: Athletes at the Beijing Games lived up to the Olympic motto ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ and none more so than swimmer Michael Phelps and sprinter Usain Bolt.
Jamaican Bolt, celebrating his 100 meters world record before he had even finished his gold medal-winning run, provided the most striking image but Phelps’s [...]

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Revealed: The International Olympic Committee has asked the world governing body for gymnastics to investigate whether members of the Chinese women’s team were too young to compete in the Olympics.
Cheng Fei, Yang Yilin, Li Shanshan, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan and Deng Linlin of China on the podium after winning the women’s [...]

London 2012 Olympics Revealed: London’s bid to raise more in sponsorship money than any previous Olympic Games remains firmly on track, according to Christopher Townsend, commercial director of the London 2012 Organising Committee.
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Efforts to obtain corporate funding have been buoyed by the UK’s medal success in [...]

Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony Revealed: Olympics Close on high note, China prevails in far more than medal count. In the end, China prevailed in far more than the medal count.
After all of the anticipation—the foreign protests, the vows to boycott, the threat of terrorism—very little of the outside world’s attempts to shape the Beijing [...]

So tell us what you think. What is your most memorable Olympic moment of the 2008 Beijing Games?
Carol Huynh’s gave tearful celebration on the gold-medal podium after the women’s 48-kilogram freestyle event. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press).
Watching Adam Van Koeverden give his heartfelt interview…and then watching him make a comeback with the Silver Medal win.
I think we [...]

Beijing Olympic Games closing ceremony, why it ends so quickly? I Wanna Watch Online
11.30am: Excitement is building around the nation as the closing ceremony approaches. We’re currently accepting humorous riffs on the following topics, so please do e-mail in your contributions:
Britain ‘dropping the baton’ as the handover occurs

David Beckham kicking the ball into the crowd [...]

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Ending: Were China Olympics the best Games ever? Best Opening Ceremonies, Perfect Closing.
Celebration of Olympics Bronzes
What happened?
How can we lose gold count to China, a third world country?
Let’s have a national holiday of mourning. No one objects I bet!
Let’s have a national contest of the best excuses of winning so less [...]

Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games Revealed: Arm-in-arm, they climbed onto the middle of the medals platform, the spot that for so long was U.S. private property.
Some players flashed their Olympic medals to the crowd. One pretended to take a bite, just to make sure it was real.
Yep, it was gold—the color the Americans always used [...]

Kobe Bryant and the U.S. men’s basketball team celebrating after their victory over Spain. With their elbows locked, smiles iridescent and extreme image makeover complete, the United States men’s basketball players took their final step into Olympic lore in the most appropriate way — together.
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Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games Revealed: Usain Bolt hits Beijing Olympics Like Lightning, With black smile and speed. The flair, the fun, the funk. Usain Bolt brought all that— and lightning speed—to the Beijing Olympics.
And he might just have revived a sport bogged down by doping and bad characters in the process.
Whether it’s a long-term [...]