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30th September 2007

Mark Lopez fails to qualify in taekwando qualifier

Mark Lopez from Texas failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics at the Taekwondo Qualification Event currently being held in Manchester.

He lost to South Korea’s Son Tae Jin. He will have one more chance to qualify at the Am Olympic Qualifier held in Cali, Colombia, in December.

Read more: Mark Lopez Loses Quarterfinal Match in Overtime

Opening ceremony to go for 3.5 hours

The Beijing Organizing Committee have announced that the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony will go for 3.5 hours.

The opening ceremony will start at exactly 8:08:08 PM. Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, will be directing the opening and closing ceremonies.

The opening promises to be a spectacular event and organizers are going all out to impress the world.

Free Wifi spots in Beijing

Salitun Area

The Bookworm
Cafe, restaurant and library.
Sanlitun Nanji (behind Building 4)
Website: www.chinabookworm.com

Chaoyang

Bento & Berries
Bakery and cafe in the Kerry Centre.
1/F, Kerry Centre Shopping Mall, 1 Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang

Haitian

Sculpting in Time Cafe
Cool cafe and restaurant.
No.1 Building 12 Hua qing jia yuan. Cheng fu lu.
Near WuDaoKou train station.

Getting to and from Beijing Capital Airport

Beijing’s airport is 16 miles or 27 kilometers from the center of town and takes around 30 minutes to get ther depending on the traffic.

An airport express bus operates between the airport and major destinations in the capital. It is a good idea to know which area your hotel is located so you catch the right bus. The route to Beijing station costs 16 RMB.

A taxi will cost around 85 RMB including the highway toll. Insist on the taxi driver using the meter and be careful of unscroupolous touts trolling the airpot for unsuspecting foreigners.

A light rail link is currently under construction and is planned to be completed by the commencement of the Beijing Olympic Games.

getting to Beijing Capital airport

Asafa Powell is considering the 200

Holder of the 100 meter world record, Asafa Powell is considering competing in the 200 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, despite not liking the event.

“I’m still not sure about it,” Powell said yesterday. “I really don’t like the 200 but maybe I will do a couple more next season just to get stronger for the 100 and if I’m healthy and in good shape to run the 200 I’ll double at the Olympics.”

“I’ve only run a couple of 200s this year,” said the 24-year-old. “It hurts after running the 200 and I really don’t like that feeling. I always want to run the 100. I wanted to run the 100 here but only the 200 was available so I had to run that.”

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29th September 2007

Golden Week Holiday

This week marks the start of the Golden Week holiday in China. With China’s new found wealth it citizens have discovered travel. I was planning to travel to Qingdao this week to check out the site of the sailing events for the 2008 Beijing Games, but it was impossible to book a train ticket - for the whole week.

Since Qingdao is a popular sea-side resort for Chinese I decided to skip the city and head straight up to Beijing. Fortunately, I could still get a plane ticket for a slightly premium price. Nearly 3.5 million Chinese will fly this week, an increase of 15 per cent from last year.

I better be heading off to the airport.

Beijing airport Olympics

Pang Jiaying qualifies for women’s 200 meter freestyle

Pang Jiaying won the women’s 200 meter freestyle event at the Chinese nationals held this week.

“I came here just for meeting the Olympic A qualification standard in the 200 meters freestyle, ” said a tired Pang. “I felt great after winning the 100 meters freestyle on Monday. Therefore, I was very confident in the 200 meters event.”

The meet was the last chance for Chinese swimmers to qualify for the Olympic Games.

Read more: Pang qualifies for women’s 200 meters freestyle at Beijing Olympics

High Definition for Beijing Olympics

The Beijing Olympic Games is set to be broadcast in high definition format. There are a few new technologies that will be tried for the first time in Beijing, including mobile and internet technologies.

“We will cover the Games for the Internet and mobile telephones. That is completely new,” said Manolo Romero, general manager of the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co, Ltd (BOB). “We have to adopt technology to be able to better serve the needs of these broadcasters. For example, we will have very powerful video servers that will allow all broadcasters to do very fast and very accurate editing of the productions we would do for the Games.”

Read more: Olympic broadcasters to use new technology

Doping agency happy with China’s co-operation

Dick Pound, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) praised China’s co-operating in busting illegal steroid labs, much of it which came from China.

He is also happy with what China is doing to target drug cheats during the Beijing Olympic Games.

“All in all, when you look around the world and see what other countries are doing, I think it’s now safe to say that China is in the vanguard of this,” Pound said.

U.S. authorities arrested more than 120 people and seized 11.4 million steroid doses in one the largest steroid busts in the country.

Read more: WADA chief praises Beijing Olympics preparations, help in U.S. steroid raids

28th September 2007

Definition of irony - Chinese monopoly game 1 reply

Walking along Fuzhou-Lu in Shanghai, I was a little surprised to see Monopoly being sold by the side of the street. The street vendors had a bit of a chuckle seeing me taking a picture of the game.

For people visiting China during the Olympic Games, I am sure they will be surprised at the development of the economy and the wealth of some Chinese. Poverty still exists of course and the gap between the rich and poor is possibly one of the most extreme cases in the world.

Chinese Monopoly Game


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