2008 Summer Olympics Facts

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Here are some fun facts about the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China…

The 2008 Summer Olympics will be held from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008.

The Slogan for the 2008 Summer Olympics is One World, One Dream.

Nine new sports will be introduced in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. This includes two new events from the new bicycling discipline of BMX. A new marathon swimming event has been added for men and women. Women will compete in the 3000m steeplechase (a sort of obstacle course) for the first time. Doubles Table tennis is being replaced with team table tennis. Laslty, women’s team foil and women’s team sabre are replacing other team fencing events.

There are talks of boycotts because of China’s less than stellar humanitarian history and because of the Chinese Government’s current treatment of protesters in Tibet. Barring major boycotts, more than 200 countries are scheduled to participate in the 2008 Olympics.

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Olympic Sports and Events
There will be 302 Events in 28 sports in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The following is list of all 28 competitive sports that will be played in the 2008 Olympics:




Archery

Athletics

Aquatics


Badminton

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Equestrian

Fencing

Field Hockey

Football/Soccer

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Softball

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Tennis

Triathlon

Volleyball

Weightlifting

Wrestling

[kafuka2002]

chinese players always do well in table tennis sport s
cancel the double tennis instead of team table tennis,weaken advantage of china.
all right ,after all,we pursue the team spirit a long time