Friday, the torch relay will be welcomed in Shanghai just after 3 days break due to the three mourning day observed for chinese earthquake’s victims.
The Olympic flame should arrived tonight from Zhejiang province and events will start friday morning until saturday.
The torch relay will cross historic sites, schools and universities, some malls and suburbs around Shanghai, the most populated chinese city. Read the rest of this entry »
The Olympic torch relay is stopped too since monday to respect the three day mourning in China.
It will restart in Shanghai on thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Due to the terrible earthquake of the last week, china decided three day mourning in the all country since this morning.
The chinese flag of Tian’anmen place is down since early this morning in memory of the victims. Read the rest of this entry »
The south african double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, is now allowed to take part and to compete against able-bodied runners in any competition. A Court of Arbitration judged him in law to run in traditional events.
Pistorius can now hope a qualification for the next Olympic Games in Beijing but before, he must run under the time imposed by the Olympics rules in a race.
His record is actually of 46,34 seconds on 400 meters, but he has to run in 45,55 seconds or under for a qualification. Read the rest of this entry »
Last monday, a strong earthquake strucked China and especially Sichuan region.
After troubles during the torch relay, criticisms about Tibet situation and China’s politics, a virus, it is now an earthquake which touch this Country that everybody is watching today. This year was normally the Chinese year, the year to show the rise of China.
But at this time the situation is critical. China announce approximately 10 000 victims. Rescue is actually on different spot to bring help to people. Read the rest of this entry »
City of Beijing is under alert since the begining of the week because of a virus which appeared in Province of Anhui in March and which is now touching people in Beijing.
This virus called “feet, hands and mouth” contamite especially children and sensitive people. It makes them appear buttons on feet, hands and mouth, and in several cases meningitis which caused 26 death since march. Read the rest of this entry »
This morning, the tickets sales starts for different events of the next Beijing Olympic games. But once again, the internet system failed just a few times after the begining of the sale.
A long time for connecting to the website has been occured and the system was quickly out of service due to too many net surfers who wanted to buy one of the 1.38 millions precious tickets on sale for different events.
The ticket’s sale is continuing until june. Hope the current problems will be repaired. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday I told you that calm was back on the torch relay since San Francisco, but today in New Delhi, events from militants was back again.
In spite of 16 000 policemen, the race in town finished after only 30 minutes with around 200 arrests of militants too excited or violent.
Calm in previous town is already finish and the olympic torch relay is about to be more and more difficult.. Read the rest of this entry »