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Congratulations to those players seleted for the United States Men’s Olympic Basketball Team from Coach Jamaal of Boise’s Jamaal Al-Din’s Hoops 227- the everything basketball website!!! This year the Olympic Summer Games are being held in Beijing, China…the home of “chow Mein,” lo Mein, ans Coach J’s favorite- szchezwaun beef!!! The USA Basketball Executive Committee is responsible for the selection process and let’s just say it’s great to select from the…

In the run-up to the Olympics, which begin next Friday, press and broadcast outlets have saturated American television with all things Beijing. So it comes as no surprise that there has been a trickle-down effect, inspiring companies not directly associated with the games to design collections around Asian themes. Click Images for Slideshow Adam Dawe / Copyright Adam Dawe PUMA, medal bag (small) $49; medal bag (large)…

2008 Beijing Olympics Tickets Beijing Olympic Games: The 2008 Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad . The Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic of China in the year 2008. Some events ( beach volleyball, sailing, swimming’s new marathon ) will be held in Qingdao city. Hong Kong will organize the equestrian events at Hong Kong…

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games and events in Beijing are still several months away. However, sad and disturbing world headlines concerning China and these Olympic Games are everywhere. Last week the Chinese government reported that air pollution in Beijing reached its highest level on record as a sandstorm from the north shrouded the capital in dust, choking pedestrians, and delaying flights. In fact, filthy, polluted, air in Beijing has…

  The Olympic torch relay, which is on its Journey of Harmony as the Chinese authorities and a majority of the people from the mainland call it begun its first contemporary journey from Greece to Berlin in 1936, when the Nazi Germany initiated this ritual of modern Olympics. The tradition of Olympic Flame comes directly from ancient Greece where the sacred flame was lit by the Sun rays…

Do you think they will become more democratic, less corrupt? More open? More radical? Or same as it is before the Olympics?

It will be very interesting to see which countries win the most medals at this Olympic games in China. It is the U.S.A and China who are normally at the top of the table in recent times, and with the event taking place on China’s home soil they may just have an advantage this year. At the last Olympic games in Athens 2004, a total of 929 medals were awarded…