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Circles are sized by the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games. Use the slider to view past Olympics, or click on a country to display a list of its medal winners.
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np.: Landscape/Eggum Tourist Route, Commercial/Bjornrudskog Kindergarden, Culture/Lilehammer Olympic Arts Museum
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"The challenge I've set myself for the Beijing Olympics... post one LEGO photo of Olympic related goodness every day for the duration of the Beijing Games"
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Listes des médailles obtenues aux jeux olympiques, dans chaque sport et pour chaque pays.
Collection des différentes flammes olympiques depuis 1936.
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Part of the elaborate Olympics fireworks show broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was altered, done digitally in 3-D computer graphics, according to several news reports.
????In Beijing, the authorities have worked hard to prevent Olympic crowds from being too one-sided in their support for the home team. Volunteer spectators have even been drafted in at some half-full Olympic venues to cheer for both sides.
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Le monde du spectacle.For visitors, coming to an Olympic city where so many aspects of life — clothing, conversation, food, everything — are staged is only going to cause more confusion about China when the returning waiguoren tell their stories about Beijing. Expats burn when travel writers and foreign journalists make simplistic generalization, but, with half the Beijing story hidden, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of it. And this will only reinforce the commonly-held belief that Westerners just can’t understand China. (Or the commonly-held belief that China’s all ancient temples and KFCs. Either or!)
ah ces chinois ! toujours à la pointe pour respecter les droits des animaux... ah pardon j'oubliais que ça n'existait pas en Chine. Cela dit le gars découvre le monde, il suffit d'aller faire les courses au Lotus pour trouver des petits poissons dans des tubes à essai dans le rayon crayons et piles et il n'y a personne pour nourrir les invendus du jour...
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????The flame came through Delhi airport, where it was received by Suresh Kalmadi, the chief of the Indian Olympic Association. The torch was then driven along a route into the city lined with hundreds of police.
some information to help you blog about the upcoming games in China.
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"the IOC requested that the year's numbers be written under the branch next to the name of the city"
American cyclist Tyler Hamilton is facing the loss of his Olympic gold medal in the cycling time trial because two separate blood tests suggested that he might be guilty of "blood doping."