Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 30, 2008	Beijing's Olympic Village is World's Largest Green Neighborhood
Amidst the talk over the legacy of Beijing's "Green Olympics," there has been surprisingly little attention paid to the environmental impact of the city's new buildings. It's especially surprising given that buildings have the largest footprint of any human activity, that China is...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 23, 2008	McDonald's scored gold with plugs by athletes
Not long after Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt stunned the crowd in Beijing by setting a world record in the 100-metre sprint on Saturday, he produced another surprise: The world's fastest man likes fast food. In fact, his prerace meal that day was none other than Chicken McNuggets. It was not...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008	Amanda Beard Bares All in PETA Ad
U.S. Olympic swimmer, Amanda Beard gets naked in PETA’s latest anti-fur ad campaign , touting the tagline, “Be comfortable in your own skin. Don’t wear fur.” An investigation into China’s fur industry—from where most of the world’s fur is said to come—revealed footage of...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 18, 2008	Olympic athletes queue to try old Chinese remedies
To the Games hosts, it was the perfect chance to showcase treatments developed long before the Ancient Greeks met to compete in Olympia. So it is that, for the first time in Olympic history, the athletes' village is equipped with a clinic offering traditional Chinese treatments. Reports...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 18, 2008	Shocker: Liu Xiang pulls out of Beijing Olympics
Former Olympic gold medalist hurdler and golden boy for millions of Chinese, Liu Xiang , limped off the track today, taking away with him the hopes of defending the gold and reclaiming his world record from Cuba's Dayron Robles . Within minutes there were already 8000 Chinese commenting...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 15, 2008	Michael Phelps Goes for the...Green?
...So how does the 'greatest Olympian of all time" chill when he's not in the pool? The gold-medal champ watches Discovery wildlife documentary " Planet Earth ." "It's pretty much all I've been watching," Phelps told reporters in Beijing. Phelps's coach Bob Bowman reveals watching animals...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008	In Pool or Out, Olympic Star Stands Apart
BEIJING — In the international melting pot that is the Olympic Village, Michael Phelps is in his own world, set apart by circumstance and by choice, his universe seemingly contained in a three-bedroom suite and in the contents of his iPod. A day in the life of an Olympic athlete would...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 17, 2008	Phelps wins historic eighth gold
Michael Phelps won his eighth Olympic gold medal of the Beijing Games to beat Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven, with victory in the 4x100m medley. The 23-year-old American teamed up with Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak to claim the historic gold in a new world record time....... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 17, 2008	David Beckham to Help Close Olympics
David Beckham will star in the Aug. 24 closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, PEOPLE has confirmed. "David is going to be in the surprise finale. They always have a segment to do the handover, to showcase the next city to host the Olympics," a source tells PEOPLE. When the Games end at...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 15, 2008	Spain's Olympic Basketball Team: Racist? Or just stupid?
From The Guardian : Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied a full page in the sports...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Aug 14, 2008	Japanese Olympic medallist used Nintendo's Wii to get himself used to the stadium
Kosuke Kitajima, the Japanese swimmer who won the Olympic gold medal in the 100m breaststroke this week, claims that he used Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games to help him prepare for the event. Apparently he used it to help him have a look around the swimming venue, as he said to...... [view]