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.

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References: [Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site], [Wikipedia 2008 Summer Paralympics], [XinhuaNet The Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games], [BBC Dazzling show opens Paralympics]

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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…

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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.

I feel the events are pretty limited. Here are some of the ides of underwater sports they might want to consider if they making the second game.

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References [QingdaoUnderwaterWorld], [XinHua], [ChinaTravel], [HownWow]

Jordanian taekwondo instructor Mustafa Dasan breaks cement slabs with his elbow in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records during a public show in Amman April 26, 2008. Dasan, 54 and father of six, on Saturday broke 5,000 kg of marble and cement bricks in one minute and sixteen seconds in the presence of Jordanian referees. In the same event, Mustafa also let another man operates a jackhammer on his stomach.

He is Invincible!!

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The British GT4 Championship driver Hunter Abbott not only emerged alive from the tangled wreckage after crashing at 100mph but did not even break a single bone. 10 minutes into the first race of the season when he left the track at 100 miles per hour trying to negotiate The Cascades, an S-bend on the Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire.

The crash happened in dry conditions, shortly after the start of the hour-long race, the first of the British GT Championship season.

His Ginetta G50 smashed through a crash barrier, went airborne, thudded into the ground, rolled about three times, landed on its roof and burst into flames. Then the driver walked out alive and well enough to assist the stewards in putting out the flames around his racing suit.

The race was temporarily halted as Abbott, in his mid-twenties, was helped into an ambulance. His car, thought to be brand new and worth more than £50,000, was destroyed.

Incredible Crash in the British GT Oulton Park – video sourced by Rutube.ru

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Credit: News Source [Telegraph.uk], Pictures Source [BritishGT]

Let’s face it. Everyone loves martial arts. From Bruce Lee to Chuck Liddell, people go just about crazy for the chance to see a good fight.

Korea’s Taekwondo, known for its colorful and elaborate kicks, is one of the most recognized forms of martial arts today and below we will showcase 5 of the most exciting and dangerous kicks in the Taekwondo Martial Arts Master’s skill set.

1. The Front Kick(Ap Chaki) is used for targets directly in front of you and is one of the first kicking techniques learned in Tae Kwon Do. Performed correctly, it’s among the most powerful.

VideoJug: Martial Arts – The Front Kick

2. Side Kicks (Yeop Chagi) require less flexibility to reach head height than any other standing kick. However, they need much greater strength and precision to be used effectively in anything but a rough, pushing strike such as that employed by other push kicks.

VideoJug: Martial Arts: The Side Kick

3. Back/Spin (Dwi Chagi) kicks are directed backward keeping the kicking leg close to the standing leg and using the heel as a striking surface.

4. A Flying Kick, in martial arts, is a general description of kicks that involve a running start, jump, then a kick in mid-air.

5. Low Kicks are the most feared kicks as they normally results in a heel coming in contact with your crouch at a very high velocity.

Having identified the 5 Most Dangerous Taekwondo Kicks, sit back and check out these highlights showing just why these kicks can be so deadly.

Taekwondo Master Demonstration:

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Sources [Tour2Korea], [ThinkQuest], [Wikipedia]

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What is your 4-year-old boy doing at home?

Yang Yang, a 4-year-old Chinese boy, swims with a 5-year-old beluga whale named Xiao Qiang at an aquarium in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong Province. Yang Yang, who has been swimming for three years, will perform with the white beluga again in 2008 to welcome visitors who come to watch sailing events at the 2008 Olympic Games.

They first appeared in public together during the country’s National Children’s Day in the summer and proved such a success that it was decided to make them an Olympic attraction. The boy’s parents think he is one of the luckiest in China, but others might disagree, bearing in mind the country’s reputation for pushing young athletes to extremes.

Yang Yang is one of about 280million children in China – representing about one-fifth of the child population of the world.

There are fewer than 80,000 [Beluga Whales / White Whale] left in Arctic waters, with St Lawrence, Cook Inlet, and Alaskan belugas classified as endangered.

Source [DailyMail]

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The very first Pole Dancing Championship of China was held in Beijing on 14 and 15 of July. The competition which was backed by the Asian Bodybuilding Federation attracted about 70 competitors including male dancers from 20 provinces of China.

The event was organised by Luo Lan who brought pole dancing to the Chinese mainstream in 2006, when she opened the Lolan Pole Dancing Club in Beijing. In just one year, Luo has branches across the country including Shanghai, Nanchang, of Jiangxi Province, Suzhou, and Guangzhou.

According to her, pole dancing has “nothing to do with sex“. Rather, it is a “healthy and positive” way to exercise, while also improving the self confidence of the students.

In addition, it also attracted numerous international competitors from Austrialia, Spain and USA.

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As motorcycles get lighter and lighter, your body mass and its position plays a more important role in the handling of your sport bike. This is the coolest-looking moment when taking a corner in a sport bike, to lean as close to the ground. You may need a lot of practice in order to do this.

These bikers are extremely serious with their practice, hoping to be Valentino Rossi one day…

They practice on their mountain bike

They pratice with professional coach

They practice on Trolley

They practice while they were driving

They even practice more when they were in the Loo!!!

Picture Source [PhotoWebs]

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I am not a great fan of Tennis, but I do watch it occasionally. The Wimbledon 2007 is getting more exciting now where the top players such as Justine Henin and Serena Williams advanced themselves to the forth round. The world no. 2 Maria Sharapova also defeated Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama with 6-3, 6-3 in an hour and four minutes. While Martina Hingis enjoyed no such luck. he 1997 Wimbledon champion lost to Laura Granville of the United States 6-4, 6-2 on Court No. 2, the “Graveyard of Champions.”

Well no nonsense, here are the exciting moment captured during the tournament. These days there is a virtual fashion parade of pants at Wimbledon. Under Wimbledon’s strict dress code, tennis clothing must be predominately white, but coloured underwear can be worn under tennis dresses – as long as the dress hem covers it.

Maria Sharapova’s battles with the breeze to cover up

Maria during her practice session

France’s Tatiana Golovin serves during her second-round match against Tamira Paszek, of Austria

Ana Ivanovic’s revealing hotpants were white

Emmanuelle Gagliardi’s pants may be brief but the effect is definitely hot

Daniela Hantuchova from Slovakia

Well how can such great show without some professional Streaker!?

Sorry dude, this picture is not from Wimbledon, however its nice.

Other resources:

Wimbledon Official Site, WTA Ranking Page, Top Ten Sexiest Sportswomen

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