China Beijing Olympic Games

 
This photo shows a mother explaining Olympic history to her young son in front of the Olympic milestone set up at the crossroads of Qingdao’s Shandong Avenue and Anshan Avenue.
According to reports, the very recently completed milestone displays Olympic history on individual squares of stone, also showcasing each Olympic Games’ mascots and posters.

(BEIJING, May 8) – Patent submissions in the Chinese capital increased to 31,680 in 2007, breaking the 30,000-mark for the first time, the chief of the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office, Liu Zhengang, said on Thursday.
The performance was up 19.3 percent over 2006 and included 18,763 patent submissions for inventions, which accounted for 59.2 percent of […]

(BEIJING, May 8) – Atos Origin, worldwide Olympic partner for the Beijing Olympics, and the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) Technology Department announced on the 100-day countdown to the Olympics that the first technology rehearsal for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has been completed.
The test showed that technological staff, systems and procedures […]

(BEIJING, April 13) — Quite possibly the most talked-about torchbearer at the moment is a young, slender Chinese woman who used her own body to protect the sacred flame during its journey in Paris.
Jin Jing, a 27-year-old Paralympic athlete, was lunged at while she carried the Olympic torch along its route in France. Without hesitation, […]

A torchbearer runs with the torch during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, on May 8, 2008.

Though the Olympic torch has gone through the most adverse weather conditions on Mount Qomolangma, its flame is burning bright thanks to China’s rocket science.”Even on a benign weather day, a gale might be blown on Mt. Qomolangma. Bright sunshine one moment can quickly turn into a pour of hailstones the next,” said Zhang Ming, […]

Zhang Zhijian reveals the relay route. (Photo credit: Gesangdewa/Xinhua)
QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, Tibet, May 7 (Xinhua) — Zhang Zhijian, spokesman for the Chinese Mountaineering Team, re-confirmed on Wednesday that the Beijing Olympic flame will be taken to the top of Mount Qomolangma by the traditional climb route along the north slope.
It came six days after Sun […]

 More than 100 Chinese had scaled Mt. Qomolangma in the past 48 years before a team of Chinese mountaineers carried the Beijing Olympic flame to the top of the world’s highest peak Thursday morning.Following are the chronicles of China’s Mt. Qomolangma expeditions:
1960 - A Chinese team consisting of Wang Fuzhou, Qu Yinhua and Konbu made […]

QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, Tibet, May 8 (Xinhua) — Nineteen Chinese mountaineers left the top of Mount Qomolangma at about 10 a.m. Beijing Time Thursday after relaying the Olympic torch on the world’s highest peak.
They are expected to reach the 7,028-meter-high camp or even the 6,500-meter-high camp before the sunset.
Five mountaineers relayed the torch over the […]

Climbers display the flags at the top of Mt. Qomolangma. (Photo credit: Xinhua)
(QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, Tibet, May — Chinese mountaineers carried the Olympic flame to the peak of the world’s highest mountain at around 9:10 a.m. (0110 GMT) on May 8, fulfilling the promise Beijing made in its Olympic bid.
The scaling of 8,844.43 meter […]