Portugal's Nelson Evora denied him the Olympic title in Beijing in 2008 by five centimetres and Phillips has vowed not to miss out again.
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Romero, who has not been on the track since her Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008, will now focus on being fit for March's World Championships in Holland.
We first provided clips on our channel on YouTube during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games across the region, and since then have continued to provide footage of past Olympic Games across the world on our YouTube channel.
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China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005 and 20 per cent of the power supply to the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will come from wind generators, according to the official state agency, Xinhua.
China also frets about the Olympic games in Beijing in August 2008, in a season when rainstorms are common.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, Foluke was an alternate to Team USA and in London 2012, she was a huge factor in the United States winning a Silver Medal in volleyball.
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Few in that country can forget the impressive sight of Li Ning, himself in a track suit of his own design, being hoisted up at the Bird Nest stadium to light the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Federici is yet to win his first full cap for Australia, although he represented them at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Fernandez moved to the U.S. after the 2008 Olympic final in Beijing, where Spain lost to the Americans, and spent three years with the Portland Trail Blazers.
U.S. officials see a China motivated by a desire for a smooth leadership transition and more global interaction and prestige tied to its WTO entry and the coming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Pacific Time on Friday, the day of the Opening Ceremony, Twitter says the volume of tweets mentioning the Olympics surpassed the cumulative number of such tweets posted during the entire span of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Last year he became the first entertainer to perform in the Beijing Olympic Stadium since Olympics finished in 2008.
Mr. Schwazer won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, setting an Olympic record in the 50-kilometer race walk.
Mr. JOEY CHEEK (Olympic Speed Skater): Going into 2008 in the Beijing Olympics, they're hosting this and they're really looking at this as a coming out party.
Stability in Asia was enhanced when Beijing won the International Olympic Committee's vote for the 2008 Olympic Games.
But the 2008 Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing, will offer those Chinese companies that are ready tremendous global media exposure for their brands.
World champion Cavendish had been strongly tipped to finally claim the Olympic medal that had eluded him at the 2008 Games in Beijing, where he was the only member of Britain's track cycling team to return from the games without a medal.
Hardwick further alleges in the suit that she has been routinely discriminated against by the NBA, claiming she was denied promotions and raises because she is a woman, despite an extensive resume of experience, including working as a security official for the U.S. Olympic teams that competed in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008.
In "Beijing 2008--The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, " players compete as Olympic athletes in the hammer throw, table tennis and swimming.
At Beijing in 2008, a famously disheveled-looking Johnson waved the Olympic flag.
Benin's francs have Olympic figures, to gear up for its participation in the 2008 games in Beijing.
Bolt stunned the sporting world in August 2008 by winning the 100m and 200m Olympic golds in world record times in Beijing, and then repeated the feat at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
The two teams met in the final at the Beijing Games in 2008, with the U.S. beating Spain to win its 13th Olympic title.
The 31-year-old has finished fifth in two Olympic Games at 2000 and 2008 - including when Usain Bolt broke Michael Johnson's world record in Beijing - plus fifth at the 2001 World Championships and fourth at the 2002 European Championships.
He did not make the final of the Beijing Olympics 100m in 2008 as he attempted to come back from a hamstring injury at the US Olympic trials that knocked him out of the 200m.
But the dream seemed to end on an August night in 2008 in Beijing, when Nelson crashed out in the first round of what would be his final Olympic shot put competition.
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