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Articles tagged "olympics" Column: The RockistThe ‘Ol Crotchety One Kicks It Transatlantic Styleby Michael Brett[22.Oct.09] :. PopMatters sends its weekly culture columnist abroad, with hopefully a one-way ticket.  NewsBeijing Olympics end, and focus turns to London 2012by 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... NewsThe 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... NewsChina has a golden Games, but when the world leaves questions will lingerby 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... NewsThese 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...  Multimedia ReviewBeijing 2008by Jamie Lynn Dunston[22.Aug.08] :. Gaming should have evolved a bit over the course of the last twenty four years. As TV ratings soar, Olympics organizers flex muscles, look beyond Beijingby 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... Fakery in Games makes plain China’s contempt for realityby 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... This country is crazy about table tennisby Joe Posnanski [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][15.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—Historians have long marveled that the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic China really began to defrost because of table tennis. Well, heck, why not?... With a bit of blue sky and fakery, China sees games as clear success so farby 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... Perspective is minimal on NBC’s Gamesby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][14.Aug.08] :. We’re talking Olympic TV today, because at the moment, what else is there? And the first point is the worn-out carping from sportscasters and writers that the prime-time show on NBC is not... It may be last night in the U.S., but it’s ‘Today’ in Beijingby 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... More reasons not to believe your own eyesby Ron Judd [The Seattle Times (MCT)][13.Aug.08] :. We suspected from the start that the voice of that little girl in the opening ceremony was fake. And now that the rest of the world is in on the secret, it’s time for some other hidden truths... Chinese police rough up British TV reporterby 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 availableby 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 offby 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... Olympic television commercials more mainstreamby Jennifer Mann [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][8.Aug.08] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - With NBC’s kickoff of Olympic coverage, viewers have 17 days of sports programming threaded with thousands of commercials on which marketers are spending hundreds of millions... China sees Olympic gold in coverageby 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 Olympicsby 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’ beginningby 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... Olympics will be way for China to show off its economic success to worldby Rick Montgomery [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][5.Aug.08] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Visiting Beijing last year, U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps likened it to “a big American city” with 7-Elevens, Subway sandwiches, Sizzlers, Starbucks and... Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Gamesby Mike Schiller[9.Jun.08] :. Seeing Sonic and Mario alongside each other in the same game is still a synapse fryer along the lines of seeing Mickey Mouse guest star as a cadaver on CSI. Something about it just...ain't...right. Arrest is another sign that China is quashing dissent before Olympicsby Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][3.Apr.08] :. BEIJING - Like many patriotic Chinese, Hu Jia broke into tears when Beijing lost out to Sydney, Australia, for the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games, and was elated a year later when the city... China, Olympics, human rights and NBC: It’ll be a rocky squareby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][2.Apr.08] :. The Summer Olympics are still four months away, but we’re already getting a look at the kind of messy scene the world could see in China when the Games begin in August. We’re also... TRAVELOGUE: Beijing’s Olympic bubbleby 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... |
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