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Olympic Medal Count Map - 2008 Beijing Olympics - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
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January 2009
Snohetta
by wojtek.traczyk
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September 2008
The LEGO Olympics
by blackgoldfish
August 2008
Olympic Medal Count Map - 2008 Beijing Olympics - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
by katagena74
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A Collection of Olympic Torches - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com#
by katagena74
Part of Olympic display altered in broadcast - Gadgets- msnbc.com
by karlcow
& 1 other
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.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Partisan crowd for China-Japan clash
by karlcow
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????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.
Hidden Beijing
by karlcow
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!)
June 2008
Beijing Olympic key chain souvenir cruel to fish?
by bouilloire
May 2008
April 2008
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Torch reaches locked-down Delhi
by karlcow
????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.
February 2008
Blogging the Olympic Games
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January 2008
September 2007
Prague changes logo for its 2016 Olympic candidacy
by pmdm
July 2007
What is blood doping? - By Dan Kois - Slate Magazine
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