Articles tagged with: 2008
Liu Xiang
In just a couple of days, one of 1.3 billion people will light the fire to ignite the Beijing Olympic Games. Liu Xiang, the world record holder in the 110 meters hurdle and China’s …
A turtle marathon is what a race would be called if I ran it.
“Look at the turtle! Is he moving?”
Imagine 373 of them.
The Korea Times’s sister company, Hankook IIbo is organizing a 7km walk through …
Mei (Great name – same as my daughter’s) Yanling will represent China at the Miss World 2008 pageant.
Mei is a graduate student at the University of Sydney. She is 180cm tall and will find it …
How about a summary of the 30 World Records that were set at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games?
19 of them were in the pool, the rest – four in weightlifting and five in track …
Yao Ming
This is great news for Chinese who didn’t get tickets to the Opening Ceremony. They will still know when their national flag is being paraded about the Bird’s nest because they will be able …
Michael Phelps is young enough to be Dara Torres‘ son. In fact, he calls her mom. She could be the mom of many of the swimmers on the team.
But this post is about Michael Phelps. …
Rebecca Romero
I’m looking forward to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. I love watching the athletes as excel as much as the next guy and girl. It seems, however, that some athletes love being watched more …
