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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]
[2] [3] Cycling BMX racing and 10 km (6.2 mi) marathon swimming were included as official medal events for the first time in history. [4] The Marshall Islands, Montenegro and Tuvalu made their Summer Olympic debuts in Beijing. [5] Overall, athletes from a record 87 countries won at least one medal, [6] and 55 of them won at least one gold medal ...
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 ...
It was sold in the first of a series of 2011 auctions of her extensive collection, going for $510,000, with the buyer's premium and taxes raising the total to $627,300. Judy Garland 's blue cotton dress, used in test shots [ 4 ] or during the first two weeks of filming, [ 22 ] was sold in the 2011 Debbie Reynolds auction for $910,000.
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.
Consumers might want to shop only at sites that are known to be authorized to sell Olympics goods. (Think major brand names.) Stay away from eBay, which is likely to have many fakes, as well as ...
Opening Ceremony Starting at 8:00 pm CST (), [5] the four-hour opening ceremony was attended by 91,000 spectators, [6] including more than 100 world leaders. The spectacle was directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the Olympic Cauldron was lit by former Chinese gymnast Li Ning.
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