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Beijing Olympics end, and focus turns to London 2012

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—The most expensive and lavish Olympic Games in history came to a close Sunday as Beijing officially passed the Olympic flame to London, and the countdown started for 2012 games that the...

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The golden question: Was sending Olympics to China the right thing?

by Jack Chang [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—The venues were great, the competition was exciting and no major international incident stained the Olympic Games that concluded here Sunday. Yet was that enough to call these games a...

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China has a golden Games, but when the world leaves questions will linger

by Linda Robertson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - Seven years ago, when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, China set out to sow gold, following the old proverb that says, “To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of...

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These Games were unprecedented – but what was real and what was illusion?

by Joe Posnanski [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - There’s a famous Chinese saying, first spoken by the old revolutionary Deng Xiaoping, that people here repeat all the time. It goes like this: “Whether the cat is black or white...

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As TV ratings soar, Olympics organizers flex muscles, look beyond Beijing

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—Television viewers around the world are tuning into the Beijing Games in record numbers, and it’s likely to fill the coffers of the International Olympic Committee like never...

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Fakery in Games makes plain China’s contempt for reality

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Aug.08] :. Time to clear the air: That’s not smog hovering over Beijing, swallowing entire office buildings like a mighty python. It’s just “a funny mist,” says the city’s...

With a bit of blue sky and fakery, China sees games as clear success so far

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—A week into the Summer Games, athletes brim with praise for the Olympics venues, rain has mercifully cleared the skies of smog and China beams at its success even as it deflects charges...

It may be last night in the U.S., but it’s ‘Today’ in Beijing

by Melissa Isaacson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[14.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - Situated in the heart of Olympic complex, the Games can’t help but pass through the “Today Show” set. Of course, it is not merely a happy coincidence. NBC and its...

Chinese police rough up British TV reporter

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[13.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - Police in Beijing dragged away and roughed up a British television journalist Wednesday as he observed a group of foreigners holding a demonstration for Tibet less than half a mile from the...

China protests: They’re allowed, but permits just aren’t available

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - China late last month announced that individuals or groups wanting to demonstrate during the Olympics could go to “protest pens” in three public parks around Beijing. What...

What to expect in Beijing Games, in the athletic venues and off

by Frank Fitzpatrick [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[8.Aug.08] :. Swimmer Michael Phelps may collect more gold medals than all but a handful of countries. Host China, spurred by wildly enthusiastic crowds, may leapfrog the United States and Russia and become the...

China sees Olympic gold in coverage

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Aug.08] :. NBC’s sports biggies held a satellite news conference from Beijing with TV critics last month, and Bob Costas talked about the complicated anticipation for the Olympic Games that open Aug....

Chinese-Americans confront complicated views about Olympics

by Ken McLaughlin and Linda Goldston [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[7.Aug.08] :. Amelia Lam, a 36-year-old teacher’s assistant, emigrated from Hong Kong to San Jose five years ago. When she talks about how proud she is that China is hosting the summer Olympics, she almost...

Politics, pollution, pomp mark Games’ beginning

by Michelle Kaufman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - All it takes is one step into this city’s brand-new, massive, futuristic airport to realize the world is about to witness the most grandiose Olympics ever staged, a $40 billion...

Martin Atkins China Dub Soundsystem: Made in China

by Deanne Sole

[21.Dec.07] :. In effect, Pigface has changed continents and absorbed a few dozen new members.

China prepares to welcome world to 2008 Olympics

by John Boudreau [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[21.Aug.07] :. BEIJING—Hosting the Summer Olympics is a coup for any country, but China regards the 2008 Beijing Games as nothing short of a historic marker of its return to glory. The Olympics is giving the...

TRAVELOGUE: Beijing’s Olympic bubble

by Chris Welsch [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[10.Jul.07] :. Wang Hai Xia, who knows Beijing pretty well, had to ask directions twice to find the Dashanzi Art District in an industrial area outside the city’s third ring road. It didn’t look like...