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The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal. Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account.
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. [7] Afghanistan, [8] Mauritius, [9] Sudan, [10] Tajikistan [11] and Togo won their first Olympic medals of any kind. [12]
At the Olympics, China has been stripped of a total of 3 Olympic medals due to doping; the three were weightlifters Lei Cao, Xiexia Chen, and Chunhong Liu, who were caught doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [18] A former Chinese doctor named Xue Yinxian has claimed the occurrence of alleged systematic doping of Chinese athletes in the Olympic ...
2008 Beijing: Artistic gymnastics: Women's team all-around Gold: He Kexin: 2008 Beijing: Artistic gymnastics: Women's uneven bars Gold: Lin Dan: 2008 Beijing: Badminton: Men's singles Gold: Zhang Ning: 2008 Beijing: Badminton: Women's singles Gold: Du Jing Yu Yang: 2008 Beijing: Badminton: Women's doubles Gold: Zou Shiming: 2008 Beijing: Boxing ...
Reports also indicated that the Olympics boosted the political careers of pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong, as many Chinese gold medal winners campaigned on behalf of the pro-Beijing DAB during the 2008 election, [144] although any trend towards greater identification by Hong Kongers with mainland China appears to have been short-lived.
With the awarding of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad of 2008 to Beijing in 2001, the government of China embarked on a program to increase its medal load. Project 119 was established to gain medals in :Athletics, Swimming, Rowing & Canoe/Kayak and Sailing. These sports had a total gold medal count of 119 in the 2000 Summer Olympics. At those ...
The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau (Chinese: 北京市公安局; pinyin: Běijīng Shì Gōng'ānjú) is a department of the Beijing Municipal People's Government. It serves as the city's public security bureau and branch of the people's police under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) The headquarters is in Qianmen, Dongcheng ...
The Beijing State Security Bureau Detention Center is a detention facility primarily used to house political prisoners, similar to Russia's Lefortovo Prison in Moscow. [5] In 2019, former Chinese diplomat turned dissident Australian citizen Yang Hengjun was arrested in Guangzhou and transferred to the BSSB Detention Centre to face espionage charges.