Beijing Olympics 2008

Win an Olympic Sky HD Sports Package!

2008-04-26T01:04:00.000-07:00

Fair Exchange have a competition to win a Win an Olympic Sky HD Sports Package!!! These are the details if you want to get your hands on some lovely Sky HD satillite equipment:

Enjoy the Olympics on a whole new level with this incredible HD sports package including an HD TV, home cinema system and 12 months subscription to Sky HD. Experience the excitement of the Olympic Games in high quality detail and sound. .. as if you were there yourself. Get your friends over you’ll be able to enjoy this fantastic prize together. Your prize includes the superb 1000 watts Sony HTSS1100 Home Cinema System, a SKY HD Box and 12 month subscription to all sports channels plus a 32 inch Sony Bravia KDL32D3000 LCD HD television. Registration is really easy and takes less than 30 seconds to complete, and the best part is IT’S ALL COMPLETELY FREE!!

Closing Date: 15th June 2008 Find out more about the Win an Olympic Sky HD Sports Package competition at Fair Exchange.

Will you be boycotting the 2008 Olympics?

2008-04-13T04:20:00.000-07:00

The Telegraph has received some feedback about whether people will be boycotting the 2008 Olympic games in China.

If you've got half an hour then it makes interesting reading - you'll end up with more of a balanced view than can be gained from watching the highly-impartial BBC.

Whatever side you're on, and there are more than two, you'll end up either angered, educated or indifferent.

Can't Ignore the Tibet Demostrations

2008-04-13T04:10:00.000-07:00

To be honest I've lost the angel of the demonstrations with the relaying of the Olympic torch. From what I can gather it's about violence and the restrictions of free speech in Tibet. But haven't many of the demonstrations been the exact opposite from the message that the protesters are saying they're about?

Most of the demonstrations so far have been mildly violent, innocent people being pushed out of the way and knocked to the ground as the torch-carriers are grappled with?

My view is that these demonstrators may have a legitimate point of view, but presenting it in this way only be seen as hypocritical. Wouldn't there be a better way of getting your message accross?

It just seems the point of the demonstrations have got lost and the demonstrations themselves have become the news ....

Wii Mario Olympics Console Game

2008-04-04T02:42:00.000-07:00

I just couldn't resist. I've got the Mario & Sonic at the Olympics Games game for the Wii console and it is absolutely amazing!!

The game is so addictive and makes you extremely competitive with the people around you. Here's some gameplay videos and adverts - they make great viewing!

Here are the best prices for Mario & Sonic at the Olympics Games on the Wii:
Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games from Amazon - £29.50
Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games from Simply Games Ltd - £32.00
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games from PowerplayDirect.com - £32.99
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games from CD WOW! - £32.99
Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games from Play.com - £32.00
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games from Gameseek - £32.97
Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games from Woolworths - £39.99 Nintendo DS:
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games from CD WOW! - £20.49
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics from Choices UK - £23.99
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games from Gameseek - £24.97
Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games from Play.com - £24.99
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games from PowerplayDirect.com - £25.49
Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games from Simply Games Ltd - £25
Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games from Woolworths - £27.99
Nintendo DS Mario and Sonic at the... from Toys R Us - £29.99
Mario & SONIC AT THE OLYMPICS... from Empire Stores - £39.99 (how much?) Oh and some more videos: Other Reviews:
IGN
GameSpot
Game Trailers
Pocket Lint

Cheap Flights To The Olympics in Bejing, China

2008-04-03T08:11:00.000-07:00

If you're looking for cheap flights to the Bejing OlympicsThen Virgin Atlantic have some cracking deals. From the UK they fly from London to Shanghai for around £816.10 on Tuesday 5th August. It's £1277.10 if you go on Saturday 2nd. and £764.10 most other days around then - that's economy prices and coming back just after the Olympics have finished. The flights leave at 14:25 and arrive around 08:40 the next day local time. For premium economy the prices are aroun £2319.10 return. For Upper Class you're looking at around £2,730.10 to £2,993.10 each. I've flown Virgin Atlantic tonnes of times and they're absolutely amazing (much better than BA - especially with all their Terminal 5 problems at the moment) - I'd never fly BA again!

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Opening Ceremony Tickets For Sale

2008-02-17T08:59:00.000-08:00

I've you've got a few quid to spend and not know what to spend it on. Well you could get a couple of tickets to the opening cermony of the Beijing Olympics and have change for £30,000!! Now you've got to be incredibly rich, or a nutter to go for tickets at that price. But I'm sure they'll be sold!

Olympic Boxing tickets

2008-02-17T08:55:00.001-08:00

England have tradtionally done well in the Olympic Boxing and let's hope we'll do well again in Beijing! The tickets Seatwave are advertising are: Olympics - Boxing / Preliminaries by from Seatwave.com - £39.99

Olympic Table Tennis Tickets

2008-02-17T08:51:00.000-08:00

I don't think many bookies will be taking bets on which nation will be winning the Olympic Table Tennis gold medal! Olympics - Table Tennis / 3rd Rnd W Team (4 Matches); M team (4 Matches) by from Seatwave.com - £49.99 Olympics - Table Tennis / W & M Team 1/4 Finals by from Seatwave.com - £59.99 Olympics - Table Tennis / W Team Semis; M Team 1/4 Finals by from Seatwave.com - £59.99 Olympics - Table Tennis / W Team Semis; M Team 1/4 Finals by from Seatwave.com - £59.99 Olympics - Table Tennis / M Sgl Prelism (16 Matches); 1st Rnd M & W Sgl (8 Matches Each) by from Seatwave.com - £49.99 Olympics - Table Tennis / 1st Rnnd W & M Sgl (8 Matches Each) by from Seatwave.com - £49.99 Olympics - Table Tennis / 4th Rnd W (8 Matches); 3rd Rnd M Sgl (16 Matches) by from Seatwave.com - £59.99

Olympic Rythmic Gymnastics Tickets

2008-02-17T08:45:00.000-08:00

Rythmic Gymnastics is often one of the specticals of the games and obtains massive television viewing figures - and rightly so. If you would like to pick up tickets to watch the Rythmic Gymnastics then try Seatwave. Olympics - Rhythmic Gymnastics / ft: Individual All-Around Qualification, Group All-Around Qualification by from Seatwave.com - £59.99 Olympics - Rhythmic Gymnastics / ft: Individual All-Around Qualification, Group All-Around Qualification by from Seatwave.com - £59.99

Men's Olympic Football Tickets

2008-02-17T08:38:00.000-08:00

It's not the World Cup, but it'll still be a great spectical! Olympics - Mens Football / Men's Semifinal 02 by from Seatwave.com - £99.99 Olympics - Mens Football / Men's Gold Medal Match by from Seatwave.com - £169.99 Keep up-to-date with all the Olympic football news here.

Olympic Artistic Gymnastics Tickets

2008-02-17T08:29:00.001-08:00

Thankfully Seatwave have a number of both men's and women's Artistic Gymnastics tickets advertised: Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / Men's Qualification - Subdivision 2 tickets from Seatwave.com - £59.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / Men's Qualification - Subdivision 3 tickets from Seatwave.com - £59.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / Women's Qualification - Subdivision 1 tickets from Seatwave.com - £69.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / Women's Qualification - Subdivision 2 tickets from Seatwave.com - £69.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / Women's Qualification - Subdivision 3 tickets from Seatwave.com - £69.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / Men's Individual All-Around Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £124.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / ft: Men's Floor Exercise Final, Women's Floor Exercise Final, Men's Pommel Horse Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £124.99 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics / ft: Men's Parallel Bars Final, Women's Beam Final, Men's Trampoline Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £139.99 Don't forget you can catch up with all the Olympic Gymnastic news on this site.

Olympic Athletics Beijing Tickets

2008-02-17T08:21:00.000-08:00

There are a number of Olympic Athletics tickets advertised for sale on Seatwave: Olympics - Athletics / Evening Session: Men's 1500m Round 1, Men's 100m Round 2, Women's 10000m Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £99.99 Olympics - Athletics / Evening Session: Women's 800m Semifinals, Women's 100m Round 2, Men's 100m Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £124.99 Olympics - Athletics / Morning Session: Women's Javelin, Women's Long Jump, Women's 200m Round 1 tickets from Seatwave.com - £49.99 Olympics - Athletics / Evening Session: Men's High Jump Final, Men's 200m Semifinals, Men's Discus Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £99.99 Olympics - Athletics / Morning Session: Women's 20km Walk Final, Men's Decathlon 100m, Men's Javelin Qualifying tickets from Seatwave.com - £39.99 Olympics - Athletics / Morning Session: Men's 50km Walk Final, Men's Decathlon 110m Hurdles, Men's Decathlon Pole Vault tickets from Seatwave.com - £39.99 Olympics - Athletics / Evening Session: Women's Long Jump Final, Men's Pole Vault Final, Men's 4x100m Relay Final tickets from Seatwave.com - £124.99

Olympics Women's Basketball Bronze Medal & Gold Medal Match Tickets

2008-02-17T08:18:00.001-08:00

Seatwave have tickets for the Olympics Women's Basketball Bronze Medal & Gold Medal Match for £129.99 Catch-up with all the latest Olympic Basketball news here.

Men's Basketball Olympics Semi Final Tickets

2008-02-17T08:14:00.000-08:00

Seatwave have tickets for the Olympics Men's Basketball Semifinal in Beijing. Catch-up with all the latest Olympic Basketball news here.

Athletes Can Blog At Olympics But We

2008-02-17T04:13:00.000-08:00

The big news story of the week (other than the Darfor issue) is that Athletes will be allowed to blog at the Beijing Olympics - well excuse me what about free speech? Oh sorry we're talking about China. I really hope that the Olympics will be a catalyst for change, just as Chen Kai has recently stated. But the International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has rightly said that it’s not their role to solve the world's ills - it's for the politicians - most of them don't really have stomach for such a debate. When you see the photos of people being displaced from their homes and watch their faces as they loose everything - it is very hard. Some say this is happening because of the Olympics, but it is not their role to prevent it from happening. The Chinese government effectively do what they like; nothing short of an invasion will prevent them from having less respect for their citizens than we'd like to think our Government does. I just fear that the Olympics will turn back into a political event where the entire two and a half weeks is dominated by these debates instead of marvelling at the fantastic feats of endurance, skill and determination.

Swiss Dressage Team Pulls Out - British Remain

2008-01-11T04:05:00.001-08:00

The Swiss dressage team have pulled out of the 2008 Olympics because of their concern over the heat and its impact on their horses. The facilities at the event will be state-of-the-art, and I'm no expert, but I don't think they'll be any major issues, but its their perogative to pull out if they want. But The Daily Mail last year quoted Paralympic rider Lee Pearson as telling Zara Phillips, three-day event world champion, about the difficulty of competing in Hong Kong. "It's like going into a sauna with your clothes on and then being asked to ride a horse that's sweating up like it has got a jumper on its back," Pearson told the paper. "Why do they pick these places?" Phillips, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, was quoted as responding. "It's the same for the athletes as well. I mean, why do they do it?"

Sega To Publish Xbox 360 & PS3 Olympics Game

2008-01-11T04:02:00.000-08:00

Following from the successful Mario and Sonic Olympics game on the Wii (I've got it and its awesome - thanks Mum-in-law), Sega and Eurocom have been given the go ahead to develop a game for the Olympics for the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles. Now I can't wait to see this game!

Food Safety Centre To Open

2008-01-04T02:38:00.000-08:00

You don't have to travel to the Chinese quarter of Manchester to get a dodgy stomach on Chinese food - I can say that because I have! The Chinese authorities are so concerned about people getting ill from the local food that they've set up a food safety monitoring centre for the Olympics.

Beijing Airport To Be Opened Feb 29th

2008-01-04T02:32:00.000-08:00

Beijing has a new airport for the Olympic Games and will have its official opening on 29th Febuary but will go operational on March 26! Apparently it's the world's largest airport and is expected to handle 2 million visitors to the Olympic games during August. The baggage handling system itself cost $250m and you'll be able to travel from terminal to terminal by rail shuttle and has a connection to the main subway station: Beijing's Dongzhimen. The rail connection to central Beijing will become operational in July.

Federer To Play At Olympics

2008-01-04T02:25:00.000-08:00

It looks like Roger Fereder will play in the Olympic games and it'll be one of his priorities to win it! Source: IHT

Holidays, Flights, Car Hire For The Olympics

2008-01-04T02:11:00.000-08:00

There will be so much choice when looking for flights, car hire and hotels in Beijing. I've found this tool that will help you search for holidays there: Check out Beijing airport information. You could also try: Expedia Lastminute.com

Marion Jones Banned From The Games

2007-12-15T04:48:00.001-08:00

It looks like Marion Jones - the USA sprinter may never take part in the Olympic games as she was banned following her confession (The Guardian tells me) for taking performance-enhancing drugs. If you want to attend the Olympics: Don't take drugs and become a spectator!

Beijing Man Jailed For Creating Fake Official Olympics Website

2007-12-15T04:43:00.001-08:00

China View has reported that a man has been convicted of creating a fake official Olympics website to fraudulently recieve money from people entering a fictional competiton. Liao Peigui was fined 2000 yuan (around £140) for making 3ooo yan (£210) from two people. He was also sentanced to six months in prison - at least he'll get out in time for the games! An interesting fact, however, is that the offical site recieves around 1.1 million page impressions a day!!!

London Costs 'within budget'

2007-12-11T11:49:00.000-08:00

Thank crunchie for that? But weren't we already 4 times over what we said we'll spend??? Read more at: Cost of policing the Olympics soars to £1.2bn Telegraph.co.uk British government releases more detailed budget for 2012 Olympics The Canadian Press uk's Jowell Reiterates Olympics Budget, Says Plan on Schedule Bloomberg

Cricket To Appear in 2012 Olympics?

2007-12-11T11:44:00.000-08:00

Who's up for cricket making an appearance in the Olympics! Don't all put your hands up at once! But I'm up for it. There's enough quality pitches in the southern half of England to make it a possibility for the 2012 London Olympics! And now it's been reported that cricket has gained official recognition from the International Olympic committee then you could say we're almost there! Other news sources: Olympics could find room for Cricket Setanta Sports Cricket takes a step toward possible Olympic return The Canadian Press Twenty20 looks to an Olympic future The Age