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Olympic Football: Nigeria vs Japan August 29, 2008 This first round match between Nigeria and Japan was played at the 60,000 capacity Olympic Centre Stadium in Tianjin. The game was won 2-1 by Nigeria with second-half goals from Victor Obinna and Everton striker Victor Anichebe. Nigeria would... 6 photos and 0 videos | August 09, 2008 Beach Volleyball is my kind of game: women in revealing shorts and cropped tops jumping up and down, screaming and getting covered in sand. If I was as old as my dad I fear I’d have a heart attack: Sport pornography! (I am discounting the fact that... 6 photos and 0 videos |
August 14, 2008 The origins of the Olympic Torch comes from the ancient Olympics when a fire was kept burning to commemorate Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. The first modern Olympics in which the torch appeared was at the 1928 Olympics... 6 photos and 0 videos | August 25, 2008 The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing marked the 23rd anniversary of Omega being the official timekeeper of the Olympics. Omega’s relationship with the Olympics began at the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles and it was used at the 2006 Winter... 5 photos and 0 videos |
August 25, 2008 In order to accommodate the assault of people during the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, the Olympic Green Station is one of the biggest subway stations in the Beijing Subway network. Due to it’s setting near to the National Aquatics Centre, the... 5 photos and 0 videos | August 27, 2008 The name Beijing or Peking derives from the common East Asian tradition in which capital cities are named in relation to their surroundings, for example Beijing means “northern capital”, Hanoi and Tokyo mean “eastern capital”. As one of the... 5 photos and 0 videos |
August 27, 2008 Since the first ‘modern’ Summer Olympics in 1896 swimming has been one of the most captivating spectator sports, and one of the most wide-ranging events of the Summer Games. The first 100m pool was built for the 1908 Olympics in London, the... 5 photos and 0 videos | Wukesong Indoor Stadium at Night August 27, 2008 Here are some stunning photographs of the Wukesong Indoor Stadium illuminating the Beijing night sky. The building is covered with lights that change colour periodically making the stadium visible from a great distance during the night. 8 photos and 0 videos |
August 20, 2008 Usain Bolt arguably the greatest revelation of the summer Olympics Beijing 2008 Breaks the world record time as he wins the men's 200 meter final to win his second Gold Medal There is more to come from this 22 year old Jamaican superstar in... 5 photos and 0 videos | August 01, 2008 蘇州博物館 Originally opened in 1960, the Suzhou Museum has a collection of ancient Chinese artefacts, paintings and hand-made crafts, situated in the 2,500-year-old city of Suzhou, Jiangsu. Although initially housed in the adjacent residence of... 5 photos and 0 videos |
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Ticket August 18, 2008 Before the summer games the Beijing Olympic Committee announced that over 7 million tickets would be on sale for the various venues and the different events. By June 2007, an astonishing 2.2 million 2008 Olympic Games tickets, almost a third of the... 5 photos and 0 videos | August 18, 2008 The meaning of the name Dalinouer has two descriptions "a wide and beautiful lake just like the sea" Also known as "the Eden of the birds and the pearl of the grassland" Great tourist attraction when visiting North East China 5 photos and 0 videos |
August 18, 2008 New railway station opened August 2008 to coincide with the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 Designed by Terry Farrell and Partners from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom in conjunction with the Tianjin Design Institute. High speed train center with 24... 5 photos and 0 videos | August 22, 2008 Handball is a game not too dissimilar to football, though the ball is played with your hands rather than feet and the pitch and goals are smaller. During the 2008 Summer Olympics, the handball tournaments are being held at the Olympic Sports Centre... 6 photos and 0 videos |
Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum August 17, 2008 Officially opened in September 1991, the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum is the first museum that concentrates wholly in researching, exhibiting and assembling archaic architectural technologies, art and its history. Located at the Xiannong... 5 photos and 0 videos | 2008 Beijing Olympic Women's Basketball August 11, 2008 Winning the Olympics has always been considering the highest accolade in international basketball and the United States team began their Olympics with a comfortable victory over the Czech Republic, 97-57. Since the introduction of women’s basketball... 8 photos and 0 videos |
August 21, 2008 Men’s basketball has been played at the Summer Olympic Games consistently since the 1936 Games in Berlin, and since then the United States have only ever not won the competition four times. This game photographed here shows the United States starting... 6 photos and 0 videos | August 21, 2008 Situated within the Beijing Planetarium is one of the oldest pretelescopic observatories in the world. Built in the seventh year of Zhengton of the Ming Dynasty in 1442, the Beijing Ancient Observatory is the home to a number of huge astronomic... 7 photos and 0 videos |
August 21, 2008 The Chinese Military Museum is situated in western Beijing and is housed in a dominating Stalinian building just south of Yuyuantan Park. Occupying a total area of 60,000 square metres, the museum has a astonishing collection of photographs, tanks,... 5 photos and 0 videos | 2008 Olympic Women's Volleyball August 20, 2008 The Olympic Indoor Volleyball events will take part at the Capital Indoor Stadium and the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium. Volleyball was created in America in 1895 by William G. Morgan, as an indoor recreational game that could be played... 7 photos and 0 videos |
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