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The video was uploaded at YouTube on 30 July 2008, but was deleted soon after its upload. However, several additional videos have been uploaded by other users. [ 59 ] The Organizing Committee investigated the unauthorized filming, [ 60 ] and on 6 August 2008, banned SBS cameras inside the stadium during the ceremony as reprisals for the leak.
The 2008 Olympics were watched by 3.5 billion people worldwide, and featured the longest distance for an Olympic Torch relay. [4] [5] The 2008 Games also set numerous world and Olympic records, and were the most expensive Summer Olympics of all time, and the second most expensive overall, after the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
Singapore qualified for the final in the women's team event, thus ensuring that the country would win its first Olympic medal, in any event, since 1960. [106] Judo. Down a yuko and with only 16 seconds left, world champion China's Tong Wen managed to throw defending Olympic champion Japan's Maki Tsukada for the gold in women's +78 kg. Tennis
NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports-produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks; Spanish language network Telemundo; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock.
The 1968 Winter Olympics were the first to be televised in color (except for a couple of events French television fed in black-and-white). Highlighting the 1968 Winter Games was a dramatic sweep in men's alpine skiing by Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy , while the major highlight of the Summer Games was a world-record long jump by Bob Beamon of the ...
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2008 Asia XXIX: 8 August 2008: 24 August 2008 [24] Vancouver Canada: 2010 North America XXI: 12 February 2010: 28 February 2010: London United Kingdom: 2012 Europe XXX: 27 July 2012: 12 August 2012: Sochi Russia [h] 2014 XXII: 7 February 2014: 23 February 2014: Rio de Janeiro Brazil: 2016 South America XXXI: 5 August 2016: 21 August 2016 ...
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