GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's hard to believe it has been four years since the last Olympic Games. It seems like only yesterday we were plonked on the couch, feet up, and ...

Bolt! Beckham! Bryant! The 2008 Games were filled with endless memorable moments and stunning sights. Look back on them before the Olympics return to Beijing on Feb. 3 Kate Hogan was Director of ...

The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...

Beijing’s Water Cube has been drained. The glowing box-shaped building designed for the swimming competitions in the 2008 Summer Olympics was one of the blockbuster pieces of architecture unveiled ...

A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on November 11, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony. The long-anticipated mascots, which embody the ...

BEIJING, China -- Tennis returned to prominence at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which featured the most competitive field since it was reintroduced as an Olympic sport in 1988. Players often skipped the ...

Here in Beijing, Friday the 13th turned out to be China's lucky day. The government took the gamble of staging a celebratory concert in front of the city's millennium monument. And as Juan Antonio ...

A front-page story in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal examined growing negativity directed at the Fuwa—the Beijing 2008 Olympic mascots. Polls show that a solid 40 percent of Chinese dislike the Fuwa ...

Getting the technology behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games up and running has been more of a marathon rather than a 100m sprint. The Olympics - which open on 8 August - will use more than 70 venues, ...

SEGA will be the publisher behind the official game of this year's Olympics, after they secured the official license from the International Olympic Committee. The online functionality of all of the ...

When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Games could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same.Such talk is all but ...