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The creative team for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games consisted of a roster of renowned individuals. The artistic performance of the Opening Ceremony, titled the "Beautiful Olympics", had the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou as General Director, and Zhang Jigang and Chen Weiya ...
The sport's governing body would go on to ban full-body suits in 2010, in order to refocus the sport on physical performance. ... for her country's 2012 Olympic team to wear to the opening ...
Beijing 2008 (video game) Beijing Olympic Broadcasting; Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games; Beijing Welcomes You; Beijing World Park; Bids for the 2008 Summer Olympics; List of 2008 Summer Olympics broadcasters
Kosuke Kitajima of Japan won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 100 m breaststroke, and set a world record of 58.91. [38] Arkady Vyatchanin of Russia set a new Olympic record in the men's 100 m backstroke semifinal with a time of 53.06, only for the record to be set again in the second semifinal by Hayden Stoeckel of Australia, with a time of ...
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.
Others, including celebrities, U.S. political figures and Catholic church leaders, expressed outrage at the scene. Actor Candace Cameron Bure, whose husband is a two-time Olympic medalist, called ...
An Olympic opening ceremony parody of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" featuring drag queens drew fury from the Catholic Church and far-right politicians
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