Usain Bolt, a 21 years old jamaican runner, beat last Saturday in New York City the 100 meters race world record with 9″72 seconds. He dethroned his compatriot Asafa Powell who had carried out 9″74 seconds in Italy last September.
Saturday, the race profited from a wind of 1,7 meter/second old back but with difficult climatic conditions and rains.
After a world championship silver medail on 200 meters race, this yound runner already promises to make beautiful things in Beijing.
Watch the race in video : 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 »
Last week, I showed you the first images from the Beijing olympic video game which will be in stores in July.
Some news screeshots just arrived with the shooting competition. Still beautiful and very realistic, just take a look at this new pics from the PS3 / Playstation 3 version, it’s amazing !
Less of 100 days before the Beijing games starts, we can see more and more Beijing merchandising made et coming everyday on the market.Today it’s the video game that I’ll show you ! You can see pics from the Playstation 3 version, so realistic and so beautiful.
You can take control of 35 events like athletics, cycling, gymnastics and more. The video game will be in stores on July for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. If you are waiting the opening ceremony in August, get ready for this if you start your training in July with this video game ! Read the rest of this entry »
For the 100 days to go until Beijing Olympic Games special day, the BOCOG made products with the effigy of this special occasion. This products are currently sold in chinese stores in limited edition and limited quantity.
Here are two products especially made, a pins and a set of coins :
Here is Jacques Rogge’s message to the Beijing Olympic torch relay, read by IOC coordination commission chairman Hein Verbruggen at the ceremony on Tian’anmen Square on Monday :
“The Olympic Flame has arrived in Beijing, announcing that the first ever Olympic Games in China will soon begin.
The combination of the Olympic flame and torch is one of the most well known and strongest symbols of the Olympic movement, heralding not just the arrival of the Games but also spreading a message of peace or “Ekecheiria”, as the Greeks call it, to the world. Read the rest of this entry »
The Beijing Olympics Torch Relay is in its fourth day in Greece. In the meantime, an Olympics Torch Exposition is also a hot event going on in Maroussi.
Although the Olympic Torch exposition has been going on for several days now in Maroussi, the “Spyros Louis” Olympic Municipal Gallery of Amaroussion still welcomes a lot of visitors every day.
Among them are tourists and people from the local community. The interest in the exposition, no doubt, is largely spurred by the ongoing Beijing Olympics torch relay in Greece. Read the rest of this entry »
Six days after the official website for Beijing Olympic Games launched, a themed activity to collect wishes from netizens and a day after the torch lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece, some 5,000 messages had been posted by netizens from 20 countries, including China, the United States, Greece, France and Germany.
One netizen from Fujian Province in China posted a message welcoming the Olympic Flame and people from all over the world to China for the celebration of happiness. Another netizen, nicknamed “Tai’an,” posted a message from Shandong Province: “I wish the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games success!” Read the rest of this entry »