Yesterday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) revealed its list of the candidates cities to organise the 2016 summer Olympic Games.
The selected cities are:
- Chicago (United States)
- Madrid (Spain)
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Tokyo (Japan)
These four cities was selected betwenn 7 candidates. In addition to the 4 cities selected, Bakou (Azerbaïdjan), Doha (Qatar) and Prague (Czech republic) were not selected by the commission.
The decision will be known in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
It is known that safety during Beijing Games is one of the Chinese primary goals, especially after the rumours of terrorist attacks which weigh on the country.
On this subject, in order to not run any risk, 160 tracker dogs specialized in the explosives detection are awaited in Beijing to reinforce a local team of 44 other dogs.
After one month of intensive drive to target detection suspect or illicit things, all the dogs will be in services on competition sites, logistics centers, airports and residences.
Several races of dog are represented, we could see labradors or shepherds. Besides the local police uses them since 1 year to detect drug in the public places. Read the rest of this entry »
The information is not official but that already starts to buzz on the Web : Leona Lewis, the British singer, could be present at the olympic closing ceremony in Beijing and to perform by the same occasion.
Since the closing ceremony must mark the relay with the next host city for next summer Olympic Games in 2012, in fact London, british personalities should be present. The London mayor Boris Johnson should be presend and accompanied by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the sportsman David Beckham, and the singer Leona Lewis.
After having conquered the United States and Europe lately, it will be the occasion for the singer to expose herself to the international scene and to benefit from this occasion to conquer new horizons.
Celine Dion had been an enormous success after her performance at Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. Leona Lewis should follow her steps.
For those who don’t know her, here is the song “Bleeding Love” in video, which has to reveal Leona Lewis : Read the rest of this entry »
In Beijing, the hotels are not full. According to them, more than half of the rooms are currently available, and this at 72 days of the beginning of Beijing Olympic Games.
Causes of this lack of craze would be the exorbitant price applied by hotels as well as events which have occurred in China lately. The suggested prices for hotel rooms would have triplet or quadrupled if we believe local informations. Moreover, pollution, the seism as well as the crisis situation in Tibet make that the foreigners are rather reticent to come.
Moreover, British and American were warned by their authorities on the risks of increasingly terrorist attacks which Beijing Olympic Games could be victim.
Rather alarming almost two months before the beginning of Beijing Games.. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday, the chinese capital recorded a pollution peak of level 5, (maximum level), which pushed the local authorities to require of the inhabitants not to go out if they had respiratory problems.
The air degradation would partly due to the sandstorms which currently cross Mongolia said the Chinese environment protection service.
Once again, a bad point for Beijing which had been committed to reduce considerably problems of pollution. China sees the negative consequences of its rise at high speed without worrying about the environment.. Read the rest of this entry »
Some giants pandas, which are protected animals in China, were brought in Beijing by plane to be placed in the Beijing Zoo during the next Olympic Games.
The eight pandas, come from search and protection pandas center of Wolong, siting about 20 miles from the last may 12th earthquake center. Pandas was a little nervous after the earthquake, but Wolong Center director said that the eight animals are cured and in good health.
Pandas should have success with Beijing visitors which are awaiting during this summer. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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 »