Beijing 2008 Olympics

Rebecca has won three Olympic medals ... a gold in 200 meter breaststroke and silver in 100 meter breaststroke and 4x100 meter medley relay. She won all three at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

Britteny Cox, Scotty James, and Allison Reed are the youngest 2010 winter olympians. All three are 15 years old.

The 2008 Olympics will affect Beijing and possibly the rest of China.

Previous Olympics have boosted the economy of countries like Japan and Korea, elevating them to a higher status in the views of other nations.

The Beijing Olympics will certainly boost the economy of Beijing, because of the prices of the Olympics, namely, tourism. However, many surrounding factories have been shut down momentarily to prevent more air pollution so that the athletes may compete in a safe environment. The workers are getting paid an average on three American dollars per day, which is almost a third of their average regular salary. They will be less able to contribute to the economy.

Some of the workers from the factories are enjoying their holidays. The labor price is very low in China, and the workers have not received any days off in years. However, some are finding it hard to get by with their minimal pay.

The factories were originally shut down to reduce air pollution. There still remains a smoggy haze around Beijing - it didn't help much.

The cost of cleaning up the Beijing area after the Olympics, of reducing extra pollution caused by the tourism, and of starting up the factories again may cause a decline in the boost of China's economy.

According to the list of countries sorted by their GDP per capita, made by: The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and the CIA factbook, It is a country called Burundi.

he is in college right now at the University of Michigan. he hasn't graduated from there yet

The literal meaning of Gymnasium is "School for naked exercise for Men" coming from the Greek word Gymno meaning "Naked"

The Olympics are held every 4 years. The Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics are separted by two years, but, it's every 4 years. The next Winter Olympics will be in 2014, and 2018. The next Summer Olympics (after 2012) will be in 2016 and 2020.

China have only held the Olympics once and that was in Beijing in 2008

None at all, not since the 1930's. Our paper money is backed only by it's citizens faith, and all the "Goods and Services" provided by the United States.

there is wheel chair basket ball swimming

The Olympic Village where the athletes will stay is being constructed on the north side of the city of Beijing near many of the the city's historic sites.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/13/content_9269447.htm

BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The giant Beijing Olympic Games cauldron came as the last of many surprises at Friday's opening ceremony, as little was known of it before the final moment. It was actually a 32-meter steel structure in the shape of a torch, imprinted with patterns ofauspicious clouds and wrapped in a red spiral strip that was made to appear like an extension of the "scroll" on which the cauldron lighter was "space-walking". The builder, Beijing's Shougang Group, had worked for seven months in secret to turn a blueprint into reality for the audience of millions -- building it, hoisting it onto the top of the facility and hiding it there. ARTISTIC CREATION VS ENGINEERING DESIGN On the blueprint provided by the ceremony organizers, there were just a few specifications: the outline of the cauldron, its rough size, its planned location at the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, and the maximum load allowed. To get the perfect shape expected by artists, engineers said they had to build the cauldron with as many components as possible. "Steel products used for the cauldron were mostly pieces of handwork, not from mass production lines," said Wang Wenli, Party Secretary of the Shougang Group, China's leading steel maker. The skeleton was made up of more than 2,000 unique steel pipes ranging in size from 7 cm to 39 cm. "Cutting out conjunctions that link different pipes was the most difficult part of building the skeleton," said Li Tingxiang, the project manager. Even the digital cutters failed to produce such conjunctions that could connect pipes of so many different sizes. "In the end, we had to write specific computer programs for the cutters to do the job." The exterior of the cauldron was composed of 1,026 different 1-mm steel plates, which were heavily perforated to reduce wind resistance. Engineers did numerous experiments at a site in the capital's eastern suburbs before they managed to build the huge torch, Wand said. A site was set up for experimenting and construction shortly after the company got the assignment in December last year. It also erected a top-covered rectangular shield to keep it from exposure. The total cost of the giant cauldron was about 10 million yuan (1.45 million U.S. dollars), Wang said. IN POSITION ATOP BIRD'S NEST How could a 10-story, 45-ton structure get to the top of the Bird's Nest? This was no theoretical question; it was a real challenge builders had to overcome. Engineers were asked to place the cauldron at a precise location on the northeast top of the stadium, with only a 2-mm margin for error. More than that distance "would have made it impossible for the latches on one side of the cauldron to slot into place," Wang said. The latches were designed to achieve a seamless link with the "scroll". Making the task tougher was the fact that the stadium itself, built of steel, tends to swell or contract daily with changing temperatures. The height difference could reach 70 cm between the extremes of summer heat and winter cold, according to Shougang engineers. On the day when the cauldron was lifted onto the roof of the Bird's Nest in May, an 800-ton crane was summoned to the task. The vehicle was the only one with a working arm of more than 570 meters and load-bearing capacity of more than 500 tons. Workers had to stand on steel beams and yank at ropes against the wind to help lift the colossus smoothly. The workers held their breath, Li said. "Any collision with the beams would have caused irreparable damage to both." STEALTH BEFORE DEBUT The secrecy of the cauldron became a top priority after it was positioned on top of the Bird's Nest. A 30-meter upturned-U-shaped air-cushioned facility was set up to house the big torch. The cauldron, which stirred much guesswork before the ceremony, had actually been lying flat on top of the opening stadium for more than two months. Engineers also designed a rail and a small cart to carry the cauldron, so that the monster could move smoothly above the rugged beam surface from the previous location to the edge of the venue opening. Hydraulic equipment was used to make it stand up for the flame-lighting, including a hydraulic jack to push it up and another device to hold the bottom. The whole facility, plus the cauldron, weighed about 405 tons. The cauldron's final journey, horizontally and up, was designed to start at the touch of a button. Automatic controls were used to minimize accidents. "We pressed the button at 10:08 p.m. on August 8, when thousands of audiences were attentively watching the parade of athletes, and the cauldron was in place at 10:24 without being noticed," said Su Baozhen, deputy general manager of Shougang. The torch-shaped cauldron will be used during the Paralympics and might become an item at exhibitions or be recycled afterwards.

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( 8th of 8 2008)

According to Olympic tradition, the athletes from Greece are the first to enter the stadium and the athletes from the host country are the last to enter the stadium.

The winners of 4th through 8th place in the Olympics do not receive any medals. Only the 1st through 3rd place winners get medals.

Around 2000 Women Competitors Competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics!! For more information text your question to: 118118 texts cost 50p ->price ay have changed!!

4 - 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze

1) Christine Ohuruogu - gold in women's 400 meter dash

2) Germaine Mason - silver in men's high jump

3) Phillips Idowu - silver in men's triple jump

4) Tasha Danvers - bronze in women's 400 meter hurdles

When control of Hong Kong was transferred to China in 1997, they were designated as a Special Administrative Region which has autonomy and a separate political system than the mainland. Hong Kong has had a National Olympic Committee since 1950 and has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1952. They will continue to participate separate of China in upcoming Olympics and will be known as Hong Kong, China.

According to the NBC Olympics website, Jamaica sent 114 athletes to the Beijing Olympic games.

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The answer is being written of February 7. The 2008 Games in Beijing are scheduled to begin on August 8. That would mean there are 6 months and one day until the start of the 2008 Games.