News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| about 1 year ago
Some greater press and political freedoms, for instance, have clearly not been honoured: as Amnesty International pointed out yesterday, there has been more, not less, repression as the games approach. But other promises that may remain unfulfilled...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
Nobody is counting on it staying that way, though, and Japan and New Zealand are just two of the Olympic teams to have packed anti-pollution masks in case it comes back with a vengeance. The trouble with face masks, however, is you can't run in them...
News Source: Moscow Times
| about 1 year ago
Although the spotlight at the pool will be fixed on swimmer Michael Phelps's quest for eight Olympic golds, Russia is shaping up for an impressive feat of its own in the often ridiculed synchronized swimming. In a discipline characterized by smiles,...
News Source: WTVD
| about 1 year ago
Blogging from Beijing before the Olympics, one UNC student has smiling pictures from tourist spots. But the Olympic journalism internship has not been as advertised. "It wasn't really clear what their responsibilities were going to be," UNC School of...
News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 year ago
However, the world's eyes are on not the athletes but on the Chinese authorities and the way they handle protests, which will inevitably be held...If so, the Olympics, instead of being China's coming out party, may leave China with a worse...
News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 year ago
China is staking its reputation on the Games — this year's largest sports event and the third Olympic Games to be held in Asia, after the 1964 Tokyo Games and the 1988 Seoul Games. The Olympic Village opened Sunday in northern Beijing to...