Another day to go before the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics. Some random news and information about Olympics and happenings in Beijing…
The game has started
The women’s soccer tournament of the Beijing Olympics kicked off at 17:00 Beijing time on Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony. It’s common for soccer (and some other team sports) to start the games earlier.
Olympic hairstyle
Beijing folks are trying some new hairstyle to celebrate the game…
Official Youtube channel
International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set up an official Youtube channel for the Beijing games, sharing a wide selection of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games clips.
Videos embedding is disabled, so I can’t share any of their videos here.
Alternatively, try the video channel of Beijing Olympics official website.
Promotional video
A six-minute promotional movie for the Beijing Olympics (I think it’s unofficial), featuring some Chinese cultural stuff and glory moments of the past…
Medal count map
The New York Times created an interactive map that shows the medal count of each country for all of the modern games since 1896. [via Neatorama]
On side-note… I will be making Olympic updates like this post with a mixture of info instead of making separate posting for each news… saving some space and browsing time. You can follow the Beijing Olympics’ update with this tag.
thats lots of weird haircuts lol, the video is nice too, will be better if use better music.
Some other random news concerning olympics. North and South Korea announced they will not march together into the games as they had done the last two olympics. The political leaders on both sides said tensions are worse this year between the two and reunification plans have suffered setbacks. Also, the shooting of the SK tourist a couple weeks ago by the NK soldier did not help matters.
The last two olympics the two countries had marched together under one banner that only said “Korea”.
lol, those haircuts would sure catch some attention…but what’s with the 3 strips of hair? that’s just werid…
the video is nice, but too long for a comemrcial.
the map is interesting. i hope china could be the top winner this year =P
kyon… yupe, the music is a bit dull, and kinda long as bb said. Actually there is a shorter version (around 1:30min), but I thought of sharing the complete one.
cole… too bad about the Koreans. For the past decade it seems like their relationship is improving, but it takes some unexpected twist.
bb… well, I hope the Chinese come on top too; but I kinda have a feeling that some of them will tumble under home pressure. Besides, lots of their athletes’ forms are not peaking at the moment… the prospect doesn’t seem good actually.
i like the medal map. i didn’t realized that europeans are the real power house. normally we talk about the countries like usa, china and russia, but when it is combined in regions, the europeans ruled even without russia or ussr.
@ #5 kyon:
European is not a country like USA, China, or Russia–saying “European,” means the people of Europe. Europe is a continent, not a counrty, therefore not a “power house.”