Beijing to learn from experiences from Olympic host cities
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The Athens Olympic Games debriefing has opened in Beijing, with future Olympic hosts and five bidding cities for the 2012 Games participating.
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Britain have aimed to better their performances in Olympics by enhancing cooperation with China, the host to the next Games. Craig Reedie, Chairman of the British Olympic Association
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Two of 12 new Beijing Olympic venues have been completed and could be handed over to officials as early as next week.
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The Beijing Olympics should still make a profit despite a 30 percent rise in costs since the Chinese capital won the right to host the Games in 2001, according to a senior adviser to the organizers.
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This year's Pan Am Games are being held in Rio de Janeiro, and the event will test Brazil's ability to become a host on the global sports stage.
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Ever since being awarded the 2008 Olympic Games three years ago, China has seen the event as a sort of coming-out party to the world and an opportunity to showcase the strides it has made.
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The International Olympic Committee  (IOC) said on Friday preparations for the 2008 Games in Beijing  were on track and played down suggestions that China's emphasis  on frugality would compromise events venues.
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CHENGDU, China - Americans get up for the big events - the Olympics, for instance, or the Super Bowl.
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China&#39;s Olympic athletes, who won a record 32 gold medals in Athens, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome from dozens of dancers, drummers, a brass band and throngs of wellwishers.
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A cold snap brought snow to the Chinese capital this week, but the freezing temperatures did nothing to slow the frenzied preparations for the Beijing Olympics as the 200-day countdown approached.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;s Olympic athletes will train and compete regularly in Beijing over the next three years after an historic co-operation agreement was signed today by the Australian and Chinese Olympic Committees.
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CHINA intends to make Olympic history by staging part of the 2008 Beijing Games outside its own territory. Top officials have suggested sending Olympians three hours by plane from the Olympic village on the
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China's 40-billion-dollar welcome mat is almost in place as Beijing prepares to woo the world -- barring unwelcome guests -- to the Olympic Games in August.
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AS the excitement of the Athens Olympic Games fades, the build-up to Beijing 2008 is in full swing. The countdown to China began last weekend when Beijing&#39;s mayor took possession of the Olympic flag at the Athens closing ceremony.
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Organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are looking into reports of child labour and worker abuse.
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The third meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games began Wednesday and during the next three days the Commission will assess the progress made by Beijing 2008.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday will announce the host city of its inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics, an event aimed at forging a new generation of Olympians.