The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...
USA - 2008: Lee Hulteng color illustration of U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps. (Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Tribune News Service via Getty I Of Michael Phelps’ eight gold medals at the 2008 ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russia have been stripped of the 4x400m women's relay silver medal from the Beijing Olympics after Anastasia Kapachinskaya tested positive for a steroid in a re-test of her ...
A one-of-a-kind art collection has emerged for the first time ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Eight paintings of Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics ...
If the thousands of free condoms handed out to Olympic athletes this year are any indication, even the sourest of Olympic experiences are expected to end with a smile. Maybe even a smoke. After all, ...
Usain Bolt estimated he ate 1,000 McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets during the Beijing Olympics -- or 100 per day over 10 days at the Athletes’ Village. “Honestly, I ate nothing else in all my time out in ...
On Monday, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos linked back to a 2007 article in the magazine by Jianying Zha. This described her brother’s nine-year detention for subversion and, in Osnos’ words, “remains the ...
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