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27th September 2007

UK boxer getting closer to the Olympics

Michael Maguire from Eastfield has taken a step closer to the Beijing Olympic Games by winning the European bantamweight gold medal in Poland.

He is moving up to join a squad of medal hopefuls.

“This is fantastic news but doesn’t come as a big surprise to me,” said Clive Hogben, his trainer at the Kettering School Of Boxing. I know exactly what Michael is capable of and have always said the only person that will ever beat him is himself. If he continues to put in the hard work and commitment he is doing at the moment then I’m sure he’ll make it to the top.”

He has two upcoming boxing Olympic qualifiers in Italy in February and Greece in March.

Read more: Maguire closes in on the Beijing Olympics

26th September 2007

China successfully tests third runway

China successfully tested its newly completed third runway. They are able to operate the three runways simultaneously allowing the airport to handle 115 flights per hour. It is a first for Asia and only a few airports in the US and Europe can handle similar capacity.

The airport now has the capacity to handle 60 million passengers per year.

Read more:Beijing tests new airport

China gymnastic’s team gets tougher

After the success of the United States’ in the gymnastics at the Stuttgart championships, the Chinese team is knuckling down to prepare for the Beijing Olympics.

“In terms of our Olympic preparations, mistakes help us to summarise our advantages and highlight our weaknesses,” China’s coach Huang Yubin told Tuesday’s Beijing Morning Post.

“As to raising difficulty levels, there is only one way forward as there are no boundaries placed on difficulty in gymnastics,” Huang said. It can be seen from the past two world championships, all our champions’ (difficulty) scores were all very high, and their movements steady. So our method of raising difficulty will not change.”

Read more: China to stick to tougher routines for Olympics-coach

Special Olympics - World Summer Games Shanghai 2007 3 replies

Shanghai is getting ready for the Special Olympics - World Summer Games. It is to be held from October 2nd to the 11th 2007 . It is the first time for the Special Olympics to be held in Asia.

The event is expected to have over ten thousand athletes and their coaches. There will be twenty one including the following the sports: bowling, outdoor bowls, sailboat, golf, weightlifting, basketball, equitation, volleyball, table tennis, handball, aquatic sports, gymnastics, track and field, tennis, badminton, cycling, canoeing, judo, ice skating, soccer and baseball.

Click here for more information on Shanghai Stadium.

For further details, see the official website: World Summer Games Shanghai 2007.

Special olympics World Summer Games Shanghai 2007

Special olympics World Summer Games Shanghai 2007

Special olympics World Summer Games Shanghai 2007

Pay up or else

Payments for Olympic tickets are slow coming in. Rong Jun, director of the Olympic Ticketing Center said that a “considerable” amount of people who have won tickets are yet to pay for them.

“In order to avoid cancellation of bookings, people must present their identity cards and ticket booking numbers to complete payment procedures at the 1,000 designated Bank of China branches as of Tuesday,” he said.

A deadline for payment is yet to be set and failure to pay for the tickets may result in people getting banned from purchasing tickets in the future.

A second round of tickets will go on sale in October, but people who are yet to pay for the first round will be illegible to buy further tickets. Payments can be made at the Bank of China or by Visa credit card.

Read more: Buyers risk consequences, if late to pay

Beijing Olympics tickets to sell again in late Oct

Agnes Szavay wins China Open

Eighteen year old Agnes Szavay from Hungary, won the China open beating Jelena Jankovic in three sets.

Szavay is looking forward to play in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“I’ll definitely come back, that’s the one of the reasons I came this year.

“I wanted to prepare for the Olympics, I really like to play here.”

Read more: Szavay stuns Jankovic to win Beijing title

Official licenced products store - Shanghai 1 reply

I just took a look at the “Beijing 2008 Official Llicenced Products Store” in Nanjing-Lu, Shanghai. The store has a whole heap of pins, medals and T-shirts to commemorate the 2008 Beijing Games.

Beijing 2008 official-licenced products store Shanghai

Beijing 2008 official-licenced products store Shanghai

23rd September 2007

Liu Ying and Christoph Sauser win in mountainbike competition

Liu Ying from China won the women’s cross country and Christoph Sauser from Switzerland won he men’s international mountain bike invitational competition in Beijing, Saturday.

“The course was really hard. You have to slow down at every turn. I was familiar with this course, so I took some advantage over some foreign riders,” said Liu, who just won the title of the World Cup last week.

The course was the same one that will be used in the Beijing Olympics.

“I hope I could get the chance to race on the same course here in 2008. I will try my best to get good result,” added Liu.

Silver medal went to Sabine Spitz of Germany and bronze to Lene Byberg of Norway.

In the mens, Bart Brentjens of the Netherlands goth the silver and bronze to Carlos Coloma Nicolas of Spain.

Read more: Liu Ying and Christoph Sauser win golds on Olympic course

22nd September 2007

Tickets can only be resold once

To prevent people from profiteering from reselling Olympic tickets, BOCOG have placed restrictions on the resale of tickets. Each ticket holds the details of the ticket owner. The original owner also needs to get permission from the Beijing organizing committee to transfer ownership.

People have been placing their tickets on internet auction sites, a practice which is basically illegal as BOCOG are also placing limits on how much tickets can be resold for.

“Those who are putting their tickets online on sale may not be the real owner of these tickets as the procedure hasn’t been completed,” said Ren Rongjun, who is in charge of ticket sales.

See here more information on purchasing Olympic tickets.

Read the full story: Beijing Olympics tickets can only be resold once

Torch relay to skip Taiwan

Discussions have broken down over the torch relay passing through Taiwan.

Taiwan Sports Minister Yang Jong-her said the two sides “were not able to reach consensus over the arrangement of the relay after more than one month of discussions.”

“We deeply regret the result,” the minister said.

It is unfortunate that the two sides could not reach a compromise over the issue. Having the Chinese and Taiwan governments come together and work on an event would have shown the world that both sides can work together and overcome political obstacles.

China views Taiwan as a state of the PRC, while most Taiwanese including the President Chen Shui-bian support Taiwan becoming an independent state.


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