Beijing
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| | The 2008 Beijing Olympics is considered by many to be the most spectacular and the best prepared Games in modern Olympic history. It is also certainly one of the best attended with more than one hundred sovereigns, heads of state and heads of government; and more than 11,000 athletes from over 200 countries in attendance. Let's relive some of the numerous highlights of the just recently concluded Beijing Games! |
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| | The Beijing Olympics still have one more day to run. But the final gold medal — for authoritarian image management — can already be safely awarded to China’s Communist Party leadership. |
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| | Reasons why every four years in the summer we devote time to the Olympics. |
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| | There is an unfair ranking system. |
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| | Does he deserve to be the best Olympian? |
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| | You may think there are a lot of tricks in the opening ceremony, but there also are a lot of tricks in the performance. |
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| | Saturday, August 16th produced a heart-stopping and emotional day for a number of New Zealand athletes and its legion of followers at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China. Not only did New Zealand win a record five medals in one day at an Olympics, but a number of those athletes overcame huge odds to win them. |
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| | Displaced people are displaced people, whether we are talking about Beijing China or New London, CT. In both places we do not own our land. |
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| | These are the amazing scenes of the Beijing Olympic Games. |
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| | by njororai w w simiyu, Jul 31, 2008 | | Comments(1) Liked It: 0 |
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| | Will Kenya win an Olympic gold medal for the first time in the marathon race? Who are the key runners on the Kenyan marathon team, and who is likely to upstage the others? |
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