Triathlon became an Olympic event in 2000.
The Olympic Games commands the attention of the world.
As the Olympic Committee told us' when you hold the Olympic torch you are the happiest person in the whole world '. I definitely felt that.
Do Chinese really want a fat, lazy animal for their Olympic mascot?
18 of the Olympic venues will be used for the Paralympic Games.
Off the clock, these athletes were buying souvenirs, taking pictures, going to pubs living the Olympic experience.
Prince Albert of Monaco is invited with his fiancee, Charlene Wittstock, the former South African Olympic swimmer.
The son of an Olympic boxer from Iran, Andre Agassi began playing tennis at the age of three, with a racket taped to his hand.
Quivering rounds of scallops in a five-ring logo are deemed too droopy; the Olympic torch carved from a carrot is something 'I've been seeing for 20 years,' sniffs Mr. Hua.
The Chinese people's enthusiasm in sports should be attributed to the all-people physical training program launched by the State in 1995, Beijing's success in bidding the 2008 Olympic Games and the Chinese football team's entering into the World Cup.
The five Olympic rings symbolize five continents.
China is the host of the Eleventh Asian Olympic Games.
On the reverse, an Olympic champion carried in triumph by the crowd, with the Olympic stadium in the background.
The mascot of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta was an amorphous abstract fantasy figure.
Since then, it has appeared on the scoreboard during the Opening Ceremony at every modern Olympic Games.
After the World Cup, the stadium will be used for other sporting events and concerts - it was even built to Olympic standards in hopes of a hosting a future Olympic Games in South Africa.
There was also smog, or haze, or some version of atmospheric opaqueness for which the International Olympic Committee has yet to invent a word.
China's newly wed basketball sensation, Yao Ming, said babies would take a back-seat to Olympic preparations as the host country began the one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Games.
Liu Shaowu, head of the security department at the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), said in April organizers had taken advice from the security chiefs of the last two Summer Games on how to keep the 2008 Olympics safe.
There he proposed to reinstate the ancient Olympic Games.
Aquatics include: swimming, Water polo, Diving, and Synchronized ming has been on the Olympic Games programme since the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
The mascots are based on a story, where a welder used the last drops of steel from the final girder added to the new Olympic Stadium, to create the Olympic duo.
During the bidding process, the bid cities can not use Olympic marks for international publicity or advertisement;
In the Olympic Green, you will find 14 major sport venues, including the National Stadium; the Olympic Village; the Media Village; the MPC and IBC; as well as the cultural facilities for the athletes and a superb forest park of 760 hectares.
The Olympic logo is five interlaced rings of one color or of different colors made up blue, yellow, black, green and red from left to right. The blue, black and red rings are a little higher than the yellow and green ones.
The Olympic franchise is built on the Olympic values. It can only be sustained through carefully managed long-term relationships.
At which Olympic Games did Chinese Women ?Volleyball Team win the championship?
It also has chafing dishes for warming the duck punched with the five holes of the Olympic insignia.
Despite the fact that booing to express displeasure during the Olympic games is far from elegant, it seems that it's been a feature of the games long before Brazil.
He looked like an Olympic sprinter.
The Olympic movement consists of the IOC, the International Sports Federations and the NOCs. It covers many sport activities including the Olympic Games.
Perhaps the Nordic judges felt it was a suitable consolation after Chicago lost out to Rio DE Janeiro in its bid to host the 2016 Olympic games.
With a theme of" Beijing Welcomes You" and in a solemn, innovated and amiable way, the organizers chose a package of five mascots named" the Friendlies", with the names Beibei, Jingjing, Yingying, Huanhuan, and Nini to stand as symbols for the29 th Olympic Games.
We are told this flame represents the "Olympic spirit," a spirit that burns strongest in the heart of the Olympic athlete.
October 20th, 1910 , the hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
A I love all the new Olympic buildings. Especially the Birds Nest -the Olympic stadium.
It can be predicted that the run-up of Olympic games in Beijing will present the abundant intention of Chinese historical culture to the world, at the same time, it will promote spreading the Olympic culture furtherly in China.
Shooter Xu Haifeng became China's first ever Olympic Gold medalist.
The purpose of passing the Olympictorch by way of relay was to spread the Olympic spirit and make theseeds of peace and friendship root, grow, bloom and bear fruits inmore countries.
Organizers of the2008 Beijing Olympics have unveiled the torch for the Beijing Olympic Games and grandiose plans for the Torch Relay.
The Olympic Games are always televised.
Liu Xiang, the 110m hurdler, is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was the first in a men's track and field event for China.
The Beijing Olympic Games were a powerful spectacle, stunning in sight and sound.
