Beijing has unveiled its official flower bouquet for the medals presenting ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games…
Seems a bit ordinary… but nobody really cares about the flowers, it’s the medal that counts ain’t so? That makes me wonder… why do they need to present flowers besides the medals?
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dude seriously… i don’t know who taught you english, but you don’t space before the punctuation. you space after it. btw if you’re so smart, you would know there is no country called “Malasia” lol.
the crazy burger is back.. i thought you say last time you are not coming back again?? whats the wrong with you dude.. can’t you see you are the real pathetic loser here?
lol, i’m pretty disgusted by the way you (Burger) talk.
who brags so much like you?!
you think people here will believe you?
and even if it’s true, no one would care because someone with a personality like yours is ugly no matter how rich or how good-looking you think you are.
and why are you telling people to bug off when you’re the one commenting garbage on other people’s blog?
anyway, back to topic.
i never really paid attention to the flowers they present to the winners.
lol, yes, only the medal matters.
this bouquet is simple, but pretty nice.
Just read in the news that some muslim terrorist group is threatening attacks on the olympic games. They claim responsibility for the bus bombings last week in China’s western Yunnan province. Oh well, the olympics always have some kind of issues that are a sign of the times. I guess Muslim extremists are the flavor this year. What a nusiance.
Anon#5… that doesn’t sound good. As far as I know Muslims are not treated that bad in China… what do they want actually?
The group calls itself the Turkestan Islamic Party.
The Chinese government has been warning that terrorism is the biggest threat to the Olympics.
Also, you have to remember that terrorists usually to try to make a statement to the world, not just one country in particular. And an international event like the olympics is a perfect venue to do that.
In the 1972 at the olympics, 5 Palestinian Arab terrorists murdered eleven Israeli athletes at their hotel, and that was at an olympics was in Munich, Germany. So national location doesn’t matter to terrorists. It’s the high profile event that they are attracted to.
The Turkestan Islamic Party comander said in a video that,”We will try to attack Chinese central cities severely, using the tactics that have never been employed,”
They believe that this group is the same as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, an underground separatist organization in the Xinjiang region of western China, which advocates independence for the area’s Muslim Uighur inhabitants. China often warns of the danger posed by the group.
ai.. muslim group again. i don’t want to sound racist, but most terrorist nowadays seem to be muslims. they are creating bad names for themselves, don’t there understand violence would get them nowhere? peace.
They are reporting today that Sunday was the worst air pollution day in a month in Beijing with just 12 days to go before the opening ceremony. That’s despite the traffic restrictions and emission reductions that the Government has put into place.
Part of the problem they said is there’s not much wind which allows the smog to linger. Visibility was only a half mile in some places. During the opening ceremony of the Athletes’ Village on Sunday, the housing complex was invisible from the nearby main Olympic Green.
“it doesn’t really look so good, but as I said, yesterday was better,” said Gunilla Lindberg, an International Olympic Committee vice president from Sweden who is staying in the Athletes’ Village. “The day I arrived, Tuesday, was awful.”
On Sunday, temperatures of about 90 degrees, with 70 percent humidity and low winds, created a soupy mix of harmful chemicals, particulate matter and water vapor.
Some athletes are staying in South Korea, Japan and other places to avoid Beijing’s air for as long as possible until the start of the games.
Lol, between the pollution and terrorists threats, Bejing has got to be feeling a little pressure. This event is very important for China. Let’s hope everything goes smoothly.
lol, i also heard that some athletes are staying in japan and south korea before the competition. and for the athletes who are staying in beijing, they wear mouth masks everywhere. that’s sad…but i don’t think the air quality in beijing would change so much in just a bit more than a week.
kyon… can’t blame you for being discriminative; some extremists are giving their fellow Muslims a bad name in recent decades.
I have read about the pollution too… it was thought that the situation might improve approaching the event, but it doesn’t happen as hoped. The Chinese are planning some extreme measurements now, including limiting car usage and closing some nearby factories if needed.
It’s going to be a challenging Olympic obviously.
They’ve already been limiting car usage as of a week ago to odd and even numbered lisense plates on alternate days. Some factories have been closed too, but none of that has really helped the matter. It’s all too little too late.
In fact, The world’s greatest distance runner, Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, has decided not to run the marathon event because the city’s pollution irritates his breathing.
And all this with the latest news about China’s ever growing demand for oil. China alone accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s recent increase in demand for oil, burning through twice as much now as it did a decade ago.
And what’s more is that most of the new car ownership is big gas guzzling vehicles. As one successful businessman said, “In China, size matters,” “People want to have a car that shows off their status in society. No one wants to buy small.”
Car ownership in China is exploding, and it’s not only cars but also sport-utility vehicles, pickup trucks and other gas-guzzling rides. Elsewhere in the world, the popularity of these vehicles has tumbled as the cost of oil has soared. But in China, the number of SUVs sold rose 43 percent in May compared with the previous year, and full-size sedans were up 15 percent. Indeed, China’s demand for gas is much of the reason for the dramatic run-up in global oil prices.
What’s wrong with this picture??? Unfortunately, I’m afraid China is going to have to pull in the reins a little on this growth explosion they are having. Things just aren’t like the turn of the last century when the world was a little less populated and a little less polluted and recources were plentiful. Things are just different.
China is experiencing an exponential growth… like US and Japan a few decades ago. Sadly, under these circumstances, environmental care is the least of their concerns.
With growth as rapid as China is experiencing, my personal opinion is that enviromental issues are a very important factor to deal with if just for the quality of that growth.
Forget tree hugger concerns and save Bambi wildlife stuff like in the west. Unbreathable air and undrinkable water can stop a country dead in it’s tracks if it isn’t dealt with in a timely and efficient manner.
For too long China’s rapid growth has gone unregulated with virtually no emission sandards and virtually no water management and chemical waste standards. And it’s all accumulated too fast and now it’s caught up with them and starting to cause problems for them.
Every action or non action has a long term consequence in some form or another. The US and Japan have been learning that lesson the hard way over the decades also.
Unfortunately, China is going to learn it the hard way. The Chinese government is trying to coup with the problem, but at the moment… they can only resource to the cheapest resources available, which are often the most polluted resources.
Last time I was in Hong Kong, the air pollution was pretty bad… and the bad air was not from HK itself, but flew from mainland China. I can only imagine how bad the pollution is for cities like Beijing and Shanghai etc.
You are right YeinJee, alot of polluted skies if they aren’t stting in a stagnent bowl where it was created with nowhere to go, then it blows in from somewhere else. This pollution problem is no easy quick fix around the world.