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Chinese singer Liu Huan and British singer Sarah Brightman stood on the central platform and sang the 2008 Olympic theme song: "You and Me." [29] 2,008 performers then held out parasols with smiling faces of young children. [33] This was followed by red and orange fireworks in the form of smiley faces. The representatives from the 56 ethnic ...
This Olympic Games marked the return of the Summer Olympic Games to Asia after the 1988 Olympics in South Korea. It was the first Olympics for Serbia as a separate state since 1912 and the first for Montenegro, having separated from Serbia in 2006. It was also the first Olympics for Nepal as a republic, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu.
China won a total of 100 medals, 48 gold, 22 silver, and 30 bronze, which became its largest ever medal tally in Olympic history. [4] On August 17, 2008, China achieved its greatest ever Olympic performance when the women's table tennis team defeated Singapore in the final to claim the nation's 33rd gold medal, surpassing the previous best tally of 32 at Athens 2004.
The 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest. [1] The ceremony was directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and began at 20:00 China Standard Time on Sunday night, 24 August 2008.
Beijing Welcomes You (simplified Chinese: 北京欢迎你; traditional Chinese: 北京歡迎你; pinyin: Běijīng huānyíng nǐ; zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄏㄨㄢ ㄧㄥˊ ㄋㄧˇ) is a feature song for the 100-day countdown of the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China. [1]
Per tradition, Greece entered first as the spiritual home of the Olympic Games, and the host country, China, entered last. All nations in between marched in the order of the host country language,the Simplified Chinese. As Chinese characters do not have an alphabetical order, the National Olympic Committees were sorted based on stroke count. [2]
Blue asterisks display countries achieving their first medal ever in a Summer Olympics. The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, from 8 to 24 August 2008. [1]
It also passed the architecture of the 2008 Olympics, including the Beijing National Stadium and Beijing National Aquatics Center (known colloquially as the "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube"). [ 30 ] The men's race layout, which differed most significantly from the women's in that it was over double its length, saw the riders make seven loops back ...