Olympic games 2008 is one of the most awaited events of the year. That held in Beijing, China. I saw from pictures online and I was amused how China prepare their country for the said Olympic games. See the picture taken on the opening ceremony. I'm sure you love it too. Read the article below for the update of 2008 Beijin Summer Olympic Games.
BEIJING - On the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the millennium, China welcomed the world to the 29th Olympiad with a blockbuster opening ceremony that launched arguably the most anticipated and assuredly the most controversial Games in modern Olympic history.
Amid the roar of fireworks and elaborate tributes to China's 5,000-year-old civilization, athletes from 204 nations - of 205 - marched into Olympic Stadium, the steel-girded Birds' Nest, before dignitaries that included President Bush, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Only Brunei proved a no-show, failing Friday to register even one athlete.
Photos
First Look: Opening Ceremony
With a fireworks show sure to top any July 4th celebration and a celebration of its 5,000 year history, China welcomed the world. Take a peak at what's coming up tonight at the Beijing Games Opening Ceremony.
Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Parade
Pictures with The President
Pageantry
Pyrotechnics
Lighting
Through at least this one night in China's capital city, the Chinese authorities and the International Olympic Committee sought to put any controversy aside. The message that rang out before a sell-out crowd of about 91,000 souls in the stadium, that was televised to billions around Planet Earth, was one of idealism and recognition:
China had arrived on the world stage.
And had chosen as its coming-out party a sports festival.
"Beijing," declared International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, speaking from a stage in the center of the stadium, surrounded by all the athletes, "you are a host to the present and a gateway to the future."
Through at least this one night in Beijing, spectacle ruled.
Li Ning, a stellar Chinese gymnast from the 1980s, lit the cauldron after skywalking across the stadium rim, his levitation supported by barely-visible wires that moments earlier had lifted him hundreds of feet up from the floor of the Birds' Nest.
Li won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games. In a turn seemingly emblematic of China as it is now, he has become a wildly successful businessman, his sports brand a mark as familiar here as Nike or adidas.
The cauldron lighting culminated a production that ran for more than four hours and that cost, according to reports, $300 million, more than a Hollywood blockbuster.
No surprise - one of the unmistakable messages of these 2008 Games is that China, home of 1.3 billion people, does it big when it undertakes a project, the government spending a reported $40 billion readying Beijing for the Olympics. The true figure is believed to be significantly higher.
The ceremony opened amid furious percussion by precisely 2,008 drummers, the beat seguing into a reading of a famous passage from the sayings of Confucius: "Welcome friends from afar."
Fireworks then roared north from Tiananmen Square in central Beijing the six miles to the Birds' Nest - ceremony organizers saying the concussions, one per second along a central Beijing north-south axis, were designed to evoke "footprints of history."
There followed acrobatics, music, "star men" who morphed into a blinking dove, a globe atop which crooned singer Sarah Brightman - and more, all of it climaxed by a fireworks spectacular over the stadium, the city, even the Great Wall..
Source NBCOlympics.com
Amid the roar of fireworks and elaborate tributes to China's 5,000-year-old civilization, athletes from 204 nations - of 205 - marched into Olympic Stadium, the steel-girded Birds' Nest, before dignitaries that included President Bush, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Only Brunei proved a no-show, failing Friday to register even one athlete.
Photos
First Look: Opening Ceremony
With a fireworks show sure to top any July 4th celebration and a celebration of its 5,000 year history, China welcomed the world. Take a peak at what's coming up tonight at the Beijing Games Opening Ceremony.
Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Parade
Pictures with The President
Pageantry
Pyrotechnics
Lighting
Through at least this one night in China's capital city, the Chinese authorities and the International Olympic Committee sought to put any controversy aside. The message that rang out before a sell-out crowd of about 91,000 souls in the stadium, that was televised to billions around Planet Earth, was one of idealism and recognition:
China had arrived on the world stage.
And had chosen as its coming-out party a sports festival.
"Beijing," declared International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, speaking from a stage in the center of the stadium, surrounded by all the athletes, "you are a host to the present and a gateway to the future."
Through at least this one night in Beijing, spectacle ruled.
Li Ning, a stellar Chinese gymnast from the 1980s, lit the cauldron after skywalking across the stadium rim, his levitation supported by barely-visible wires that moments earlier had lifted him hundreds of feet up from the floor of the Birds' Nest.
Li won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games. In a turn seemingly emblematic of China as it is now, he has become a wildly successful businessman, his sports brand a mark as familiar here as Nike or adidas.
The cauldron lighting culminated a production that ran for more than four hours and that cost, according to reports, $300 million, more than a Hollywood blockbuster.
No surprise - one of the unmistakable messages of these 2008 Games is that China, home of 1.3 billion people, does it big when it undertakes a project, the government spending a reported $40 billion readying Beijing for the Olympics. The true figure is believed to be significantly higher.
The ceremony opened amid furious percussion by precisely 2,008 drummers, the beat seguing into a reading of a famous passage from the sayings of Confucius: "Welcome friends from afar."
Fireworks then roared north from Tiananmen Square in central Beijing the six miles to the Birds' Nest - ceremony organizers saying the concussions, one per second along a central Beijing north-south axis, were designed to evoke "footprints of history."
There followed acrobatics, music, "star men" who morphed into a blinking dove, a globe atop which crooned singer Sarah Brightman - and more, all of it climaxed by a fireworks spectacular over the stadium, the city, even the Great Wall..
Source NBCOlympics.com
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