2008 Olympics Updates

Tom Daley may not be a big celebrity yet and he is only 13 years old but he has a lot of potential to make some media buzz in Beijing Olympics 2008.

Telegraph wrote:

He is just 13 years old but pint-sized Tom Daley, the diving sensation from Plymouth, could well emerge from the Beijing Olympics with a giant reputation. This week he will be in the Chinese capital attempting to qualify Olympic places for Britain and, though GB team selection will not finalised until later in the year, his precocious talent could well make him the youngest athlete ever to represent the country at a summer Olympic Games.

The Olympic Village in Beijing is now open, well ahead of the upcoming Summer Games. Anyone who has visited say it is a delight and environmentally friendly design although, sadly, the loos are Asian rather than Western style. Apart from that the technology could be a model for future residential developments across China.
These apartments in [...]

The world record holder, Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, said he still intended to participate in the 10,000 meters but could not run in the 26-mile, 385-yard (42.2km) marathon.
Gebrselassie, 34, who holds the world marathon record and two Olympic titles for the 10,000 meters, suffers from asthma.
He said, ‘The pollution in China is a threat to [...]

There is such a sport as hop, step and jump although it is now called the triple jump. It may sound something you did at kindie but it is a real sport with real rules and has been in the Olympics since the modern revival.
The Chinese record still stands at 17.34m. But that was set [...]

A dozen multinationals such as Coca-Cola, Lenovo, McDonald’s, and Samsung have laid out as much as $100 million each to be global sponsors of the Beijing Olympics this summer. An additional 11 — including Volkswagen, Adidas, and Air China — have paid as much as $50 million each for the right to link ads within [...]