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The 2008 Summer Olympics

May 26th, 2008

The 2008 Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympics are most commonly referred to as “the Olympics,” although they are also called “the Olympic Games” or simply “the Games. The Summer Olympics are held every four years.

The modern games were established in 1896 by the International Olympic Committee. The first Summer Olympics saw the participation of only 245 competitors representing 14 countries. This summer contest is the last Olympics scheduled to include baseball, which has been dropped by the International Olympic Committee.

Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008

The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event usually Quadrennial, organized by the International Olympic Committee. The summer Olympics are coming up in August 8th-24th. China will host the Summer Olympics for the first time in Beijing in 2008. For the second time in Olympics’ history, Summer Games of the same season will be held in two different countries; China and Hong Kong. The Chinese are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the impending Summer Olympics are free of one of those embarrassing international incidents that countries tend to try to avoid

The upcoming summer Olympics are the culmination of seven years of meticulous planning and over $40 billion spent.

In a move that has been a long time coming, the Summer Olympics are going to stop gender specific competition and have open gender competition.

Beijing Efforts

Beijing is China’s second largest city in terms of population. Beijing already had reason to fear that Tibetan activists would seek to disrupt the Olympic torch route, which will include a climb up Mount Everest on the region’s border with Nepal. Beijing currently has roughly 150,000 security guards and 290,000 volunteer patrollers, and another 80,000 guards will be directly employed to protect Olympic venues. The Beijing organizers are making good progress with the preparations for the event, which they have titled ‘New Beijing, Great Olympics’ as well as ‘Green’ and ‘Hi-tech’.

Succumbing to international pressure, organizers now plan to replace most of the squat toilets with sit-down toilets in the three main stadiums. “If we want this city to thrive in a global economy, we have to do everything we can to raise our city’s profile before an international audience.

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