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1st October 2007

Beijing National Stadium video - just less than one year to go 1 reply

I took a look at the Beijing National Stadium yesterday. The subway line (line 10) is still under construction, so I had to take a taxi. The stadium is just north of central Beijing.

The stadium itself looks fairly complete, but they are still have plenty of work to do on the area surrounding it. There are quite a few hotels still being built around the stadium. The design itself if very impressive and unlike anything else I have seen. I think it is going to look great lit up at night.

It was very dusty, which can probably be attributed to all of the construction going on. Just along side the stadium is a massive highway which divides the national stadium with the Olympic Sports Center where the gymnastics events will be held. At the moment it is difficult to walk around the different venues, but I am sure they will be building better access routes as the games approach.

The aquatic center is a big rectangular building, painted blue with bubbles coming out the side. Unfortunately it was difficult to get close to the building to take a good shot.

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.

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

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

Ryan Day’s hopes for the Olympics

Canadian runner Ryan Day has moved to Toronto to join the Brooks Canada Marathon Project. The project aims to help train runners in groups, rather struggling by themselves. He is competing this weekend in the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

“The Olympics are never a sure thing but it would give me a much better shot at qualifying if I came out and joined it,” Day said. “So I took the leap and moved out here.”

“You have a group of people that’s training and pushing each other and I think you get better results,” said Mike Dyon, a four-time Canadian marathon champion.

Read more: Day hopes Marathon Project can help him get to Beijing Olympics

27th September 2007

Shanghai stadium 2 replies

Shanghai stadium is set to host the football preliminary. It is an existing venue and was built in 1997. It has a seating capacity of 80,000.

Getting to Shanghai Stadium:

Shanghai Stadium has its own subway station on line number 4 (the purple line). It can also be easily reached from Caoxi Road Station on line number 3 (the yellow line), or line 1 (red subway line).

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China’s women football team urge coach to stay

China’s women’s football team is urging its coach Domanski-Lyfors from Sweden not to quit the team. The coach is dissappointed with the recent results in the World Cup. The team failed to make it past the quarter finals.

“We were making progress and we are getting more aware of our shortcomings, which are so much significant for the preparation of Beijing Olympics,” said China Football Association (CFA) vice president Xie Yalong.

“Domanski brought us many positive things, making us play as a team and encouraging us to keep upbeat for the future. We are very happy and we hope she could stay.”

Read more: China’s football players beg coach to stay


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