Blog Tag - 2008 Olympics
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Urban Exploration is all about peeling back the layers of a city like a massive onion. While it is true that Beijing can often bring tears to the...
Ride out of the city smog into the suburban haze, push through the thick shroud of Shunyi mist, and that is where you will find the Olympic Rowing-...
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an event that was to encapsulate China's world power dreams and a moment to prove...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
While we in Beijing keep looking towards Olympics 2022, the IOC is still sorting out the winners of 2008, and yesterday netted one of the biggest...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
![Throwback Thursday: Which of the Olympics "Do and Don'ts" Have Stuck?](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/313215/opening-ceremony-games-621815-o.jpg "Throwback Thursday: Which of the Olympics "Do and Don'ts" Have Stuck?")
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
As the Beijinger moves through its 15th year covering Beijing, it's time again for Throwback Thursday. In this edition, it's April 2008 and Beijing...
Film and 2008 Olympics opening ceremony director Zhang Yimou admitted Sunday that he has three children with his current wife, in defiance of China'...
In either the best endorsement for Olympic sponsor McDonald's ever, or the worst statement for good nutrition, world record-holding sprinter Usain...
The pressure's on for Team China at the 2012 Games. Thanks to their outstanding performance four years ago, when China won 15 more gold medals than...
McDonald's new menu honoring previous hosts of the Olympics includes a "Beijing Chicken" burger, but it remains to be seen whether the burger will...
The same technology that feeds your cell phone signal has also devastated Chinese villages. We rely on satellites for telecommunication, but the...