Olympics & Sports AhBoon | 09 Sep 2008
Spectacular Opening of 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, is being held in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. It was opened by Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday during a stunning ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing. In the three-hour spectacular show, 6,000 performers and 4,000 disabled athletes from 148 countries took part in front of 91,000 ecstatic spectators.
The opening spectacular featured a number of disabled actors and actresses, focusing on themes of space, time and life.
About an hour into the extravaganza, a female spectator broke through the security cordon and made it onto the main arena. She was immediately removed by security staff.
Hou Bin, an amputee athlete and Paralympics gold medallist in athletics, lifted himself and his wheelchair up to the couldron with a rope before lighting it.
With the theme of ‘Transcendence, Integration and Equality’, the Paralympic Games reflects the yearning and quest of persons with disabilities to build a better world, together with other people.
Olympics & Sports AhBoon | 21 Aug 2008
Terrifying Diving Events in Beijing Olympics
Guo Jingjing is one of the most sexiest female athletics in Beijing Olympics and she also became the most successful diver in Olympic history Sunday by winning the women’s springboard event.
It was the second goal medal of these Games and the sixth of her career. She had been tied with China’s Fu Minxia and American Greg Louganis for the most diving medals all time.
Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics whilst jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Successful competitors possess many of the same characteristics as gymnasts and dancers, including strength, flexibility, kinaesthetic judgment and air awareness.
However if you think it is fun and you are thinking of learning it, then think again, you will understand what I say after looking at these pictures…
Event & Olympics AhBoon | 13 Aug 2008
Great Moments in Beach Volleyball of Beijing Olympics
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh; The beach volleyball’s dominant team ranked No. 1 in the world prepares for a second gold medal in Beijing Olympics. They beat The Cuban team their 103rd consecutive victory, to virtually assure themselves of a berth in the round of 16, which gets underway Friday.
Beach Volley is one of the most Hottest matches in Beijing 2008 Olympics, bikini-clad competitors, cheered on by dancing “beach babies” cheer leaders and a raucous crowd.
“Beach-babies” sporting bikinis danced to rock music played by a DJ, and were sometimes accompanied by Olympic volunteers.
Some 12,000 spectators in Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground seemed to enjoy the time-outs – during which the cheerleaders danced and huge video screens panned the audience – as much as the competition.
Architecture & Olympics AhBoon | 08 Aug 2008
The Most Exicting Venues of Beijing Olympics 2008
The Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008, to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony beginning at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
It is going to begin at tonight; All together 205 countries will be participating in the 2008 Olympic. China and Chinese people are now absolutely ready to celebrate this feast of games.
Altogether 31 venues will be used in Beijing during the 29th Olympiad. All of them have been completed early this year. An additional six cities, namely Hong Kong, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenyang and Tianjin, will also co-operate with Beijing to run the Equestrian, Sailing and the Football Preliminaries.
Here are some of the exciting venues for Beijing Olympics 2008.
Olympics & Video AhBoon | 04 Aug 2008
Leaked – Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
Gymnast Li Ning lights the Olympic Flame during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China.
The Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics will begin from August 8, 2008, to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony beginning at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium (The Bird Nest) in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Stringent security surrounding the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics has failed, with a Korean television station broadcasting preview footage after a reporter managed to walk into the National Stadium during a rehearsal on Monday.
The opening ceremony, directed by China’s best-known film director, Zhang Yimou, has been under the strictest security. Design and production teams and the thousands of cast members have been required to sign confidentiality agreements. Breaches are punishable by up to seven years jail.
Beijing Olympics spokesman Sun Weide last night told The Age the footage was obtained by “abnormal means” and questioned the professional standards of the reporter. But he said: “We hope to surprise the world with an excellent performance.”
Architecture & Olympics AhBoon | 24 Jul 2008
Bird Nest – The Signature Stadium of Beijing 2008 Olympics
The Beijing National Stadium (北京国家体育场) or the “Bird’s Nest” (鳥巢) for its architecture is a stadium finished for the Olympic Green in Beijing, China that was completed on March 2008.
The stadium will host the main track and field competitions for the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies, and some events for the later Paralympics in September 2008. It is located east of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre (China Water Cube).
This signature stadium is placed in the Olympic Green and occupies 21.4 hectares. It stretches 333 meters from north to south and 298 meters from east to west, covering an area of 258,000 square meters. The National Stadium is 68 meters high and holds 91,000 seats. The construction of the National Stadium began in December of 2003, and the cost was up to 3.5 billion yuan (423 million USD).
The stadium also topped architecture category of the 100 most influential designs in Times magazine earlier this year.
Olympics AhBoon | 15 Jul 2008
Anti-Terrorism Drills for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008, to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony beginning at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Earlier in June, China launched a week-long series of anti-terrorist drills called “Great Wall 5″, in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games. The drills involved emergency responders, “police forces, the People’s Armed Police, the People’s Liberation Army and the health, environmental protection, meteorology and transportation departments.” according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.
The picture above shows members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, east China. A few surface-to-air missile launchers have also installed near to the Olympic Green.
Olympics & Sports AhBoon | 05 Jul 2008
Underwater Olympic Games in Qingdao China
While Beijing prepares for the 2008 Olympic Games, a few hundred kilometers away in Qingdao, guests at Sun Asia Ocean World can witness the Underwater Olympic Games!
Qingdao Underwater World is a sprawling complex with a myriad of animal species on display.
Among the four underground levels you’ll find an inter-tidal zone display, a seabed tunnel, a cabin passage, a marine theater, the purported largest cylindrical aquarium in the world, a rare marine species zone, a rainforest area and a surprisingly large marine education area which features an open lab, a touch pool, interactive video displays and a studio.
The Underwater Olympics competitors are all professional scuba divers, although they’re now involved in activities they probably hadn’t imagined before. There’s underwater fencing, shooting, gymnastics and even cycling. It’s enough to make you think it’s the year of the fish, not the year of the rat.
Babes & Olympics AhBoon | 18 May 2008
Journey of The Olympic Flame – FHM China
The Chinese edition of FHM (For Him Magazine) is celebrating its forth anniversary, and shows their support for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics in a stunning photoshoot. The May’08 issue of the magazine covered a 32-pages Olympic theme special and outsize pullout poster, titled ‘Journey of The Olympic Flame‘.
The magazine features four models engaged in combat and sport, with art direction that appears to be inspired by Zhang Yimou historical films.
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Olympics AhBoon | 03 May 2008
Beijing 2008 Olympics Desktop Wallpaper ScreenSaver
Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games is less than 100 days to go, I am so facinating of getting to China to enjoy the sensational event. I ‘ve started to decorate my desktop with these lovely the mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; The Fuwa.
The cute Fuwa group consists of five members according to the traditional five elements: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Each of the five names is designed to look like a plausible name for a small child, while also achieving a more complex task: when the first syllable of each name is put together, it sounds nearly identical to the phrase “北京欢迎你”, Běijīng huānyíng nǐ which means “Beijing welcomes you”.
