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An Olympic Film Collection of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH) includes fifty feature-length films providing a chronicle of the modern Olympic Games. [4] [5] A collection of many Official films was restored, [6] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of ...
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.
On 20 August 2014, the IOC disqualified Mikhnevich's results from the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's shot put event and reallocated the bronze medal to Canadian athlete Dylan Armstrong. [48] Dylan Armstrong +1 +1 List of official changes in medal standings (2016 wave of retesting) 22 July 2016 Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg
Asterix at the Olympic Games: 2008 Comedy French film in which characters from Astérix comic book series participate in Olympics. Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008: 2008 Documentary Official documentary about events building up to 2008 Summer Olympics. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: 2016 Documentary
The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 8 August to 24 August 2008. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOC) participated. Overall, 302 events in 28 sports were held; 165 events were opened to men, 127 were opened to women and 10 were mixed events. [1]
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The members of the 1972 USA men's Olympic basketball team gather to deliberate 12 Angry Men-style on whether to finally accept or continue to refuse silver medals from the 1972 Summer Olympics, where they controversially lost the gold medal game to the Soviet Union.
Films about the Olympic Games by athletic event (2 C) P. Films about the Paralympics (7 P) This page was last edited on 18 May 2021, at 09:16 (UTC). Text is available ...