As the 2006 winter games has drawn to a close, excite is starting to build for the next summer Olympics in Beijing 2008.

The Chicago Sports has an interesting description of the upcoming event:

“After the less than thrilling winter Olympics staged in a country familiar to millions of Americans, the Beijing games promise all the elements of an international thriller: mystery, money, controversy and pageantry. It will offer to the West a glimpse, through press and television, into a little-known country whose old civilization is colored by two very different philosophers, Confucius and Karl Marx. ”

Original article.