International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said he was very impressed by what he saw during an inspection tour of the venues for the 2008 Games on Tuesday.
China has set up a group to monitor air quality in Beijing and four regions around the capital as part of efforts to ensure the 2008 Olympics are pollution free.
Quincy Jones, well-known American music impresario, record producer, film composer and 26 time-Grammy Awards winner was appointed culture and art consultant for the Beijing Olympic Games.
The roles education and culture have played in the Olympic Movement were highlighted by senior officials from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday in Beijing at the opening ceremony of the Fifth World Forum on Sport, Education and Culture.
The name "Friendlies" has been abandoned as the organization committee for the 2008 Beijing Olympics silently changed the English name of the Games' five mascot dolls last week.
Beijing Olympic organizers have enlisted internationally renowned filmmaker Ang Lee and China's senior IOC member He Zhenliang in their campaign to create the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Games.
President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge has prefaced the 3rd issue 'One World, One Dream' of the Civilization Magazine.
Since the day that China won the bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, a country woman in
Zibo, north China's Shandong Province, began to embroider pouches in celebration of the upcoming Beijing Olympics, the Xinhua News Agency reports Monday.
About 160 athletes competed in track and field events as part of the 2006 Special Olympics Shanghai Invitational Games on Monday.
The youngest drugged student caught in early August's doping raid to a Northeast Chinese training camp is as young as 15 years old, said a spokesman with the Chinese Olympic Committee's anti-doping commission on Thursday.
A Northeastern Chinese sports school was discovered collectively using performance-enhancing drugs in a doping raid early this month, China State Administration of Sport said here on Wednesday.
Beijing organizers said they will start on August 28 to recruit volunteers for the 2008 Olympics and Paralympics.
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