Archive for February, 2008

Beijing upgrades citywide food safety for Olympics

 Beijing has attached great importance to upgrading food safety citywide as a precondition to ensuring food safety for the upcoming Olympics, an official said on Thursday.
Since 2005, the city has engaged in an all-around effort to improve food safety, with guidelines already formulated, said Tang Yunhua, a spokesperson for the Beijing Municipal Office for Food […]

Table tennis queen seeks last Olympic ticket

With a bulging trophy cabinet and happily married to a multimillionaire realtor, Chinese table tennis queen Wang Nan says her life will be perfect with an Olympic appearance at home.
    The 29-year-old is the most decorated Chinese table tennis player, with 20 world and Olympic titles to her belt, beating previous record holder Deng Yaping by […]

Chinese ambassador, Olympic champion to join Olympic torch relay in London

Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom Fu Ying and double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes will be amongst the 80 torchbearers passing the Olympic Flame across London on April 6.    Broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald and actress Amara Karan will also run the one-day leg, as part of the worldwide Beijing Olympic Torch Relay, as revealed by Greater […]

Kluft still pondering Olympic title defence

Carolina Kluft again hinted here Friday she might abandon her attempt to defend her Olympic heptathlon title in August in order to concentrate solely on a single event at the Beijing Games.  The Swede, who first suggested she was falling out of love with the heptathlon after retaining he world title in Osaka last August, is […]

Capital security force in full preparations for the Games

As the Beijing Olympic Games moving close, Olympic security corps of PLA (People’s Liberation Army) gears up preparations for a “safe” Olympic Games in August in Beijing, reported by Xinhuanet on Sunday.  Underlined and organized by PLA General Staff Department (GSD), the capital army force dedicated for the security of the Games move forward to guarantee […]

Legend swimmer Spitz expects Beijing Olympics the best

Famous American swimmer Mark Spitz predicted on Sunday that the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games would be the best in the history of the Olympics.  He made the remarks as a guest of the awarding ceremony of this year’s Laurence Prize, Xinhua reported.
  China owns a time-honored and unique culture, and the Olympic […]

Rhythmic Gymnastics “beautiful little secret”:

Rhythmic Gymnastics is an elegant, refined movement. Competition, athletes face makeup and clothing also played an important role. People may think that the professional makeup artist will help athletes make-up, but the fact is, each time athletes themselves to decide how to personally get involved and make-up. These athletes learn makeup is an essential homework.
Artistic […]

Rhythmic gymnastics group all-round final: Russia Zhaijin China wins bronze

2007 International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament for the finals of the collective competition in the qualifying round of the Russian team has been led by the strength of results prove to be a collective total 35.075 won a gold medal, and Italy in order to obtain a total of 34.600 silver medal, the Chinese team girls […]

“Good Luck Beijing” sports volunteer work

August luck Beijing professional sports volunteers will sum up the work of BOCOG held in Beijing. Beijing Olympic Volunteer Work Co-ordination Group, deputy head of Beijing BOCOG Executive Vice-President Li Binghua, Zhang Zhiwei, deputy secretary general of Beijing BOCOG, the Beijing Olympic Volunteer Work Co-ordination Group Office Director, Beijing Municipal CPC Committee and secretary of […]

BOCOG held the 10th Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Partner Club event

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) held the 10th event of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Partner Club today. With Christmas and the New Year approaching, such an event is aimed to extend BOCOG’s appreciation of the important contributions by the Partners and to facilitate better communication in the […]