Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games begin this month, a full year before the event opens on 8 August, 2008. The systems architecture for Beijing 2008 was finalised ...

Beijing is the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, and China has revamped many of the venues from the 2008 Games for the 2022 competitions – here’s how organizers did it. The ...

Could it really be over so quickly? Ever since the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the Summer Games in 2001, China had lavished $44 billion on transforming the capital into a city ...

LONDON (January 10th, 2008) - SEGA® Corporation today announced an exclusive partnership with International Sports Multimedia (ISM), exclusive licensee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ...

Following the successful 2007 release of Sega's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, the firm has announced it is now developing a true official video game of the 2008 Beijing Olympics for release this ...

ceremony at the iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium, watched by an estimated one billion people worldwide, and it certainly wasn't the only unprecedented spectacle on display during these spectacular Games.

A series of events have been held in Beijing to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing ©Beijing 2022 The event was held on the Olympic Park in the Chinese capital and ...

It wouldn’t be quite true to say that the Olympics made modern Beijing — but it wouldn’t be far wrong. Between 2001 and 2008, the capital was a flurry of development — subway lines, monuments, ...

Beijing 2008: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games Xbox 360 Gameplay - Discus Beijing 2008: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games Xbox 360 Gameplay - Floor Exercise Beijing 2008: The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russia have been stripped of the 4x400m women's relay silver medal from the Beijing Olympics after Anastasia Kapachinskaya tested positive for a steroid in a re-test of her ...

A one-of-a-kind art collection has emerged for the first time ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Eight paintings of Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics ...