Stability in Asia was enhanced when Beijing won the International Olympic Committee's vote for the 2008 Olympic Games.
She earned two Olympic gold medals as a player and coached the United States to a gold medal in the 2008 Olympic games.
Federici is yet to win his first full cap for Australia, although he represented them at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
After Columbus Crew won the MLS Cup in 2008, what should have been a night of collaborative celebration for the winger -- who won 18 caps with the U.S. while also representing his nation at the 2008 Olympic Games -- turned to individual torment instead.
For despite winning the 1995 FIFA World Youth Cup and the 2008 Olympic Games with Argentina, Messi has yet to go past the quarterfinals of the World Cup -- and many commentators believe he needs to win that trophy if he is to lay claim to being the greatest footballer the world has ever seen.
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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.
Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, the undisputed royalty of Olympic beach volleyball after dominating the 2004 and 2008 Games, edged out their Chinese competitors Tuesday afternoon to advance to Wednesday's final, which will be their last game together.
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.
Benin's francs have Olympic figures, to gear up for its participation in the 2008 games in Beijing.
Ex-world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis believes the Olympic silver medallist should stay as an amateur until after the next Games 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.
The International Olympic Committee facilitates sharing of lessons learned and best practices from Games to Games, but in 2008, the iPhone was only a year old, My Space was the most visited social media platform, Twitter was still in its first year, and it would be two years before the iPad would even be launched.
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.
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