India Beijing Journey- The In And Out

22 Aug, 2008
Indian Boxer Vijendra kumar Lost His semi-final bout against Cuba’s Emilio Bayeux Correa and Won the Bronze medal.

21 Aug, 2008
India’s ace freestyle grappler Rajiv Tomar made an early exit after losing to Steve Mocco of US in the men’s 120 kg freestyle qualification round at the Beijing Olympics.

21 Aug, 2008
Vijender fought a great tactical bout, playing that ‘defend and wait’ game to perfection against Ecuadorian Carlos Gongora.

20 Aug, 2008
The 66-kg freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar, who lost his first bout in the round of 16, went through three repechage contests to win India’s first bronze in wrestling since 1952.Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal after beating Kazakhstan’s Spiridonav in a play-off in the men’s 66 kg freestyle wrestling through repechage round.

20 Aug, 2008
India’s ace pugilist Jitender Kumar lost to Russian Georgy Balakshin in the men’s 51 kg flyweight quarter-finals in Beijing.

20 Aug, 2008
Achanta Sharath Kamal failed to advance to the next round after losing to Austria’s Weixing Chen in the men’s singles event.

19 Aug, 2008
Indian table-tennis player Achanta Sharath Kamal won first round match in men’s singles event of Beijing Olympics after beating Alfredo Carneros of Spain 4-2.

19 Aug, 2008
India’s challenge at the 60 kg men’s freestyle wrestling came to a dismal end with Yogeshwar Dutt went down to Kenichi Yumoto of Japan.

19 Aug, 2008
Anju Bobby George too could not qualify for the event

18 Aug, 2008
India’s top pugilist Akhil Kumar crashed out of the Beijing Olympics after losing at the hands of Moldova’s Veaceslav Gojan in the quarter-finals of the men’s 54 kg bantamweight category.

18 Aug, 2008
India’s triple jumper Renjith Maheswary failed to qualify for men’s triple jump finals after leaping the best distance of 15.77 m in the qualifying round.

18 Aug, 2008
India’s promising paddler Neha Aggarwal made an early exit as she failed to advance to the next round after losing to Australia’s Fang Lay in the women’s singles event at the Beijing Olympics.

17 Aug, 2008
Surendra Singh’s hopes of a top 10 finish went up in smoke as the Indian finished the energy sapping 10,000m race at the 26th place.

17 Aug, 2008
India’s shooting campaign came to an end as riflemen Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput failed to qualify for the final round of the men’s 50 metres 3-position event at the Olympics.

16 Aug, 2008
Vijender Kumar beat Thailand’s Angkhan Chomphuphuang in the 75kg middle-weight bout to advance to the quarter-finals of boxing competition at the Beijing Olympic Games.

16 Aug, 2008
Jitender Kumar defeated Tulashboy Doniyorov in the flyweight pre-quarterfinals at the Beijing Olympics.

16 Aug, 2008
Vikas Gowda’s Olympics campaign wilted in the qualifying round as the Indian discus thrower failed to reach anywhere near his best.

16 Aug, 2008
Mandeep Kaur cut a sorry figure in the Olympic stage as she failed to qualify for the semifinals of the women’s 400m event.

15 Aug, 2008
Akhil Kumar reached the quarter-finals beating world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the 54kg bantam weight category.

15 Aug, 2008
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were shown the door by the Swiss pair of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the doubles quarter-finals.

15 Aug, 2008
Bajranglal Takhar ran out of steam in the closing stages but managed to better his personal best timing to finish 21st in the men’s Single Sculls rowing event at the Olympics.

14 Aug, 2008
Indian judokas’ challenge came to a dismal end in the 29th Olympic Games with Divya Tewar going down to Yalennis Castillo of Cuba in the 78kg category.

14 Aug, 2008
Indian challenge in swimming came to an end as neither Virdhawal Khade nor Ankur Poseria could repeat or better their personal best at the Beijing Olympics.

14 Aug, 2008
India’s Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu crashed out without making the grade for the finals of the 50m air rifle three position shooting competition at the Being Olympics on Thursday.

13 Aug, 2008
Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao could not avert a defeat against Kuznetsova and Safina in the 2nd round.

13 Aug, 2008
The Indian Express duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi recreated the old magic to sail into the quarters of the men’s doubles event. Leander Paes/ Mahesh Bhupathi beat Marcelo Melo/Andre 6-4, 6-2.

13 Aug, 2008
Bajrang Lal Takhar dissapointed as he finished fourth among six rowers in men’s single sculls classification race at the Beijing Olympics.

13 Aug, 2008
India’s ace archer MS Champia lost in the pre-quarters from B Badenov of Russia in the men’s individual archery event.

13 Aug, 2008
MS Champia advanced to the pre-quarters after beating Iran’s V Hojjatolah in the archery men’s individual event.

13 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal failed to reach the semis after losing the quarter-final encounter of the women’s singles badminton event. Saina Nehwal lost to Maria Krisitin Yulianti 26-28, 21-14, 21-15.

12 Aug, 2008
Paes and Bhupathi recreated the old magic to sail into the second round of the men’s doubles tennis event of the Beijing Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
Akhil Kumar stormed into round of 16, beating his French opponent Ali Hallab in the 54kg bantam weight category of the boxing competition at the Beijing Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
Indian rowing pair of Devender Kumar Khandwal and Manjeet Singh finished a disappointing fifth in the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls Repechage 2 at the Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
India’s promising archer Pranitha, failed to perform in her pre-quarterfinal match and crashed out of the women’s individual archery event at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday.

12 Aug, 2008
Jitender Kumar pummelled Ulas Furkan Memis in less than three rounds to storm into the fly weight pre-quarters of the boxing event.

12 Aug, 2008
Dola Banerjee and L Bombayla Devi crashed out of the individual archery event after losing their respective matches.

12 Aug, 2008
Athens silver medallist RS Rathore failed to qualify for the finals of of men’s double trap event at the Olympics.

12 Aug, 2008
Ace pistol shooter Samresh Jung failed to qualify in the finals of men’s 50m pistol event at the Beijing Olympics.

11 Aug, 2008
Anup Sridhar is out of the Olympic race, having gone down 13-21,17-21 to Japanese Shoji Sato in the second round of Olympic badminton.

11 Aug, 2008
India’s top-ranked women tennis player Sania Mirza retired from first round of singles event at the Olympics against Czech Iveta Benesova.

11 Aug, 2008
AL Lakra crashed out of the Beijing Olympics’ boxing competition after losing 5-9 to Bahodirjon Sultanov in the opening round.

11 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal, India’s best bet in badminton, stormed into the quarters of the the women’s singles event at the Beijing Olympics.

11 Aug, 2008
Abhinav Bindra created history by winning the first ever gold in the olympics.

11 Aug, 2008
India’s Abhinav Bindra qualified for the men’s 10m Air Rifle final after shooting a total of 596 out of 600 while Gagan Narang failed to make the cut.

10 Aug, 2008
Virdhawal Khade failed to create a ripple in the swimming pool as he finished a lowly seventh to crash out of the 200m freestyle event.

10 Aug, 2008
Anup Sridhar advanced to the second round in men’s singles badminton after beating Marco Vasconcelos at the Beijing Olympics.

10 Aug, 2008
India’s sailing duo Devender Kumar Khandwal and Manjeet Singh finished fifth and last in the second heat of the men’s lightweight double sculls in rowing at the Beijing Games.

10 Aug, 2008
Mansher Singh and Manavjit Singh Sandhu failed to qualify for the trap finals of the shooting competition at the Beijing Olympics.

10 Aug, 2008
The Indian archery team came agonisingly close to a medal before hosts China shattered their hopes in the quarter-finals of the women’s team event.

10 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal beat Ukrainian Larysa Gryga in straight games to advance to the women’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the Games.

9 Aug, 2008
Swimmer Sandeep Sejwal failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the men’s 100m Breaststroke event at the Olympic Games.

9 Aug, 2008
Dinesh Kumar bowed out after losing the men’s light-heavy (81-kg) opening round bout to Abdelhafid Benchabla of Algeria.

9 Aug, 2008
Vijender Kumar beats Jack Badou of Gambia in the 75-kg bout to advance to the second round of boxing competition.

9 Aug, 2008
Saina Nehwal scored a thumping win over Ella Karachkova to move to the second round of women’s singles in badminton.

9 Aug, 2008
India’s women archers failed to keep their arrows on target and finished low down in the ranking event at the Beijing Games.

9 Aug, 2008
Bajranglal Takhar gave the crestfallen Indian camp some reason to smile as he qualified for the quarter-finals of men’s singles Sculls event.

9 Aug, 2008
In a big setback to India’s medal hopes, Samresh Jung failed to make the finals of the men’s 10m air pistol event following the poor show by Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu.

9 Aug, 2008
Tombi Khumujam Devi’s Olympic campaign lasted only two and a half minutes as she was knocked out of the women’s 48kg event.

9 Aug, 2008
Indian shooters Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu failed to qualify for the final round in the Women’s 10 metre air rifle event at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall on Saturday.

INDIA MEDALS OLYMPICS

Shooting Men's 10m Air Rifle Abhinav BINDRA - GOLD

Wrestling Men's Freestyle 66 kg Sushil KUMAR - BRONZE

Boxing Men's Middle (75kg) Vijender KUMAR - BRONZE

Beijing olympics - TOP TEN vs INDIA

INDIA - 3 GOLD MEDALS - BEIJING OLYMPICS

Shooting Men's 10m Air Rifle Abhinav BINDRA - GOLD

Wrestling Men's Freestyle 66 kg Sushil KUMAR - BRONZE

Boxing Men's Middle (75kg) Vijender KUMAR - BRONZE



Yes INDIA found three Golds in the Beijing olympics.After A very long Gap Our Indians are Happy Too when the world is celebrating the OLYMPICS.Our Three Atheletes who won Medals In the Olympics are no less than Gold Medals that Other Countries have won,but is it right to compare them to a gold medal when the world atheletes have won medals up to 8.
Perhaps not but we indians are so happy that our medalists hve become the rose of garden.now onward every function,every meeting,every rally,every college/school functions will not start untill our roses.

So, the Olympics at its end with the host China china winning the most of the medal,though it has the home support,but what about USA,Britain and many other countries most of the countries hav won medals in this olympics.Small countries like Jamaica has won 7 medals overall.

UNHIDDEN FACTs - BEIJING CEREMONIES

1.The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest. It began at 8:08 pm China Standard Time (UTC+ 8) on 8 August 2008 because in Chinese culture, 8 is considered to be a lucky number.

2.The OPENING ceremony was co-directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou along with Chinese choreographers Zhang Jigang and Shen Wei.

3.It was noted for its focus on ancient Chinese culture, and for its creativity, as well as being the first to use weather modification technology to prevent rainfall.

4.Featuring more than 15,000 performers, the ceremony lasted over four hours and was reported to have cost over US$100 million to produce.The opening ceremony was lauded by spectators and various international presses as spectacular and spellbinding.

5.More than 100 heads of state, heads of government and sovereigns attended the opening ceremony.The number of heads of state who attended the opening ceremony was by far the largest in Olympic history

6.The final ascent to the torch featured Olympic gymnast Li Ning, who appeared to run through air around the top ring of the stadium.

7.Featuring more than 15,000 performers, the ceremony lasted over four hours and was reported to have cost over US$100 million to produce.

8.The Chinese singer Liu Huan and British singer Sarah Brightman, standing on the central platform, sang the 2008 Olympic theme song: You and Me.

9.As Chinese is written in characters and not letters, the order of the teams’ entry was determined by the number of strokes in the first character of their respective countries’ Simplified Chinese names.

10.Guinea was the second country to enter following Greece as it only takes two strokes to write the first character in the country’s name . Australia marched 202nd, just ahead of Zambia ,which was the last country to march before China.

11.The Chinese contingent, which was last, was led by Yao Ming and Lin Hao, the 9-year-old primary school student who had rescued two schoolmates during the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.

12. Four Great Inventions of ancient China
* The Compass
* Gunpowder
* Paper
* Printing

13.The Olympic flag was carried in by eight former athletes from China. They were:

* Zhang Xielin (table-tennis)
* Pan Duo (Everest mountaineer)
* Zheng Fengrong (athletics)
* Yang Yang (A) (short track speed skating)
* Yang Ling (shooting)
* Mu Xiangxiong (swimming)
* Xiong Ni (diving)
* Li Lingwei (badminton)

14.At the End of the ceremony Jackie Chan, Karen Mok, Han Hong, and Sun Nan sang the first song, “Stand Up”; while Andy Lau, Nicolas Tse, Joey Yung, Wakin Chau, Wang Feng, and Sun Yue sang the second song, “Cheering for Life”. Since the ceremony was already overtime by then, this portion was not televised.

15.In 2006 the Beijing Organizing Committee (BOCOG) initially chose American film maker Steven Spielberg, Yves Pepin, head of the French entertainment group ECA2, and Sydney Games opening ceremony director Ric Birch as special consultants.

16.The South Korean Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) leaked parts of a rehearsal of the opening ceremony through secret shooting before the actual ceremony, disregarding the prohibition of the Organizing Committee.

17.The song “Ode to the Motherland” appeared to be sung by Lin Miaoke at the ceremony, but it emerged she had mimed her performance to a recording by another girl, Yang Peiyi.

18.Most of the television coverage of the fireworks show that displayed the 29 fireworks “footprints” outside the stadium was simulated by computer animation by using CGI of 28 of the footprints for television broadcasts, and only the last one was filmed live.

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CLOSING CEREMONY

1.The 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest.

2.It was directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and began at 8:00 pm China Standard Time (UTC+ 8) on August 24, 2008 (the post-introductory main ceremony began at 8:08 pm). The number 8 is associated with prosperity and confidence in Chinese culture.

3.British singer Leona Lewis and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (with association football player David Beckham making an appearance).

4.The Ceremony also included the handover of the games from Beijing to London. Guo Jinlong, the Mayor of Beijing handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

5.The total cost for the eight-minute segments during the Handover Ceremonies at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing was £2.5m

Beijing olympics-fact sheet

1.The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be celebrated in Beijing, People’s Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.

2.Ten thousand, five hundred athletes are expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports.

3.The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001.

4.The official logo of the games, titled “Dancing Beijing,” features a stylised calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city.

5.The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing both a colour of the Olympic rings and a symbol of Chinese culture.The five Fuwa are named Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini.

6.The Olympic slogan,

One World, One Dream

, calls upon the world to unite in the Olympic spirit.It was chosen from over 210,000 entries submitted from around the world.

7.A total of 37 venues will be used to host the events including 12 newly constructed venues.

8.Its largest architectural pieces will be the Beijing National Stadium, Beijing National Indoor Stadium, Beijing National Aquatics Centre, Olympic Green Convention Centre, Olympic Green, and Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center.

9.The centrepiece of the 2008 Summer Olympics will be the Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed the “Bird nest” because of its nest-like skeletal structure.

10.During the games, 2,500 large-size buses and 4,500 minibuses will be operated by a total of 8,000 drivers to transport people across various venues.

11.The design of the Olympic Torch is based on traditional scrolls and uses a traditional Chinese design known as the “Propitious Clouds” (祥云). The torch is designed to remain lit in 65 kilometer per hour winds, and in rain of up to 50 millimeters per hour.

12.The relay, with the theme Journey of Harmony, is expected to last 130 days and carry the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi)—the longest distance of any Olympic torch relay since the tradition began at the 1936 Berlin Games.

13.A total of 21,880 torchbearers have been selected from around the world by various organizations and entities.

14.The flame was carried to the top of Mount Everest on a 108 km (67 mi) long “highway” scaling the Tibetan side of the mountain especially built for the relay.

15.The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing will be held in the Beijing National Stadium, and begin at 8:08pm CST (12:08 UTC) on 8 August 2008.

16.United States will bring about 600 competitors to the games, their largest Olympic team thus far. On the Other hand Afghanistan will be represented by just four competitors.

17.South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, five time gold medalist at the Athens Paralympics in 2004, has qualified to compete at the Beijing Olympics,thus making history by becoming the first amputee to qualify for the Olympic Games since Olivér Halassy in 1936. Natalia Partyka (who was born without a right forearm) will compete in Table Tennis for Poland.

18.The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one event more in total than in Athens.

19.The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” is Latin for “Faster, Higher, Braver,” but is universally accepted to mean “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.”

Athens vs Beijing

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Beijing National Stadium -Technical View

20.Participating countries in Beijing Olympics with no. of participants
• Afghanistan (4)
• Albania (11)
• Algeria (
• American Samoa (4)
• Andorra (5)
• Angola (26)
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina (13
• Armenia (25)
• Aruba (2)
• Australia (433)
• Austria (72)
• Azerbaijan (39)
• Bahamas (19)
• Bahrain (11)
• Bangladesh (5)
• Barbados (
• Belarus (20
• Belgium (94)
• Belize (3)
• Benin (3)
• Bermuda (6)
• Bhutan (2)
• Bolivia (6)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
• Botswana (2)
• Brazil (277)
• British Virgin Islands (2)
• Brunei (2)
• Bulgaria (72)
• Burkina Faso (4)
• Burundi (3)
• Cambodia (6)
• Cameroon (3)
• Canada (331)
• Cape Verde (3)
• Cayman Islands (3)
• Central African Republic (3)
• Chad (2)
• Chile (27)
• China (639)
• Chinese Taipei (80)
• Colombia (64)
• Comoros (3)
• DR Congo (2)
• Congo (3)
• Cook Islands (4)
• Costa Rica (6)
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Croatia (106)
• Cuba (149)
• Cyprus (17)
• Czech Republic (130)
• Denmark (83)
• Djibouti (4)
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic (23)
• Ecuador (25)
• Egypt (103)
• El Salvador (11)
• Equatorial Guinea (3)
• Eritrea (11)
• Estonia (47)
• Ethiopia (36)
• Fiji (6)
• Finland (55)
• France (323)
• FS Micronesia
• FYR Macedonia (7)
• Gabon (4)
• Gambia (3)
• Georgia (35)
• Germany (439)
• Ghana (9)
• Great Britain (313)
• Greece (159)
• Grenada (1)
• Guam (5)
• Guatemala (12)
• Guinea (1)
• Guinea-Bissau (3)
• Guyana (4)
• Haiti (1)
• Honduras (25)
• Hong Kong, China (34)
• Hungary (171)
• Iceland (26)
• India (57)
• Indonesia (24)
• Iran (55)
• Iraq (2)
• Ireland (54)
• Israel (43)
• Italy (344)
• Jamaica (56)
• Japan (351)
• Jordan (7)
• Kazakhstan (132)
• Kenya (56)
• Kiribati (3)
• South Korea (267)
• North Korea (63)
• Kuwait (6)
• Kyrgyzstan (21)
• Laos (4)
• Latvia (49)
• Lebanon (5)
• Lesotho (4)
• Liberia (3)
• Libya (7)
• Liechtenstein (2)
• Lithuania (69)
• Luxembourg (12)
• Madagascar (4)
• Malawi (4)
• Malaysia (27)
• Maldives (4)
• Mali (12)
• Malta (6)
• Marshall Islands (5)
• Mauritania (2)
• Mauritius (3)
• Mexico (85)
• Moldova (31)
• Monaco (2)
• Mongolia (29)
• Montenegro (17)
• Morocco (49)
• Mozambique (6)
• Myanmar (6)
• Namibia (9)
• Nauru (1)
• Nepal (7)
• Netherlands (245)
• Netherlands Antilles (3)
• New Zealand (182)
• Nicaragua (6)
• Niger
• Nigeria (33)
• Norway (85)
• Oman (4)
• Pakistan (21)
• Palau (4)
• Palestine (4)
• Panama (3)
• Papua New Guinea (7)
• Paraguay (5)
• Peru (12)
• Philippines (15)
• Poland (26
• Portugal (7
• Puerto Rico (22)
• Qatar (22)
• Romania (102)
• Russia (467)
• Rwanda (4)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• São Tomé and Príncipe (3)
• Samoa (6)
• San Marino (4)
• Saudi Arabia (16)
• Senegal (
• Serbia (92)
• Seychelles (
• Sierra Leone (2)
• Singapore (25)
• Slovakia (57)
• Slovenia (62)
• Solomon Islands (3)
• Somalia (2)
• South Africa (136)
• Spain (287)
• Sri Lanka (
• Sudan (9)
• Suriname (4)
• Swaziland (4)
• Sweden (97)
• Switzerland (84)
• Syria (7)
• Tajikistan (13)
• Tanzania
• Thailand (25)
• Timor-Leste (2)
• Togo (1)
• Tonga (3)
• Trinidad and Tobago (2
• Tunisia (32)
• Turkey (6
• Turkmenistan (10)
• Tuvalu (3)
• Uganda (11)
• Ukraine (54)
• United Arab Emirates (5)
• United States (596)
• Uruguay (12)
• Uzbekistan (5
• Vanuatu (3)
• Venezuela (109)
• Vietnam (21)
• Virgin Islands (5)
• Yemen (5)
• Zambia (7)
• Zimbabwe (13)

BIRD's Nest - A TECHNICAL VIEW

1.The main body of the National Stadium has a design life of 100 years. Its fire resistance capability is first-rate, and it can withstand an eight-magnitude earthquake. The water-resistance capability of its underground project is also first-rate.

2.The main body of the National Stadium is a colossal saddle-shaped elliptic steel structure weighing 42,000 tons. It is 333 meters long from north to south, 294 meters wide from east to west, and 69 meters tall.

3.To earthquake-proof the stadium, the bowl and roof were split into two separate elements and the bowl split into eight zones, each with its own stability system and effectively its own building.

4.The ground was broken on Christmas Eve December 2003, and construction started in March 2004. Construction was halted following the collapse of Terminal 2E at Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, which had a similar design to the National Stadium.

5.The stadium can seat as many as 91,000 spectators during the Olympics. The capacity will then be reduced to 80,000 after the Games.

6.The stadium is 330 metres (1,082 ft) long by 220 metres (721 ft) wide, and is 69.2 metres (227 ft) tall. The stadium uses 258,000 square metres (2,777,112 square feet) of space and has a usable area of 204,000 square metres (2,195,856 square feet). It was built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45,000 tonnes.

7.The stadium will cost up to 3.5 billion yuan (423 million USD).

8.The large steel skeleton of the project weighs 42,000 tons, with the roof and the hanging parts around it accounting for 11,200 tons.

9.According to the plan, the outer circle will vertically drop by 67-70mm, the middle by 161-178mm and the inner by 208-286mm.

10.The skeleton can now bear a load of 11,200 tones of its roof and hanging parts.

11.Computer simulation, synchronized control and structure monitoring techniques were all used to ensure accurate operation, even unloading and timely observation.

12.In 2002, Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group to win the competition.

13.The opening and closing ceremony of the Beijing olympics will take place in the bird’s nest.

14.The Beijing National Stadium’also known as the National Stadium, or the “Bird’s Nest” for its architecture is a stadium finished for the Olympic Green in Beijing, China that was completed in March 2008.

15.The stadium will host the main track and field competitions for the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. It is located east of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.

The National Stadium is a complex structure, posing great difficulties for its designers and constructors.

1. Large and heavy steel parts

The fracture surface of the largest truss column — the major load-bearing component of the roof structure — measures 25m x 20m, with a height of 67m. The maximum weight of a single column is 500 tons. The main truss is 12m tall. The maximum span between and through the two columns amounts to 145.577+112.788m, and the maximum span between the two trusses stands at 102.39m. Each truss column is of great bulk and weight, and so are the main trusses.

2. Complex nodal joints

Because the structural elements in the project are box-typed, many elements intersect spatially among the steel parts. Besides, the complex nature of secondary structures has resulted in the diversity of nodal joints of the main structures, requiring accurate and sophisticated manufacturing and installation.

3. Tight schedule

In addition to the huge workload, the allotted construction period is short. Having started on December 24, 2003, the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2007, with the inauguration time scheduled for March 2008. Therefore many operations have to be conducted on a limited terrain, causing a very tense situation.

4. The hoisting work extended across the winter and spring, so the workers have had to defy both rainy and cold conditions in the winter to continue their work.

The workers have overcome tremendous engineering and technical challenges in the process of construction:

1. Difficult work arrangement

They need to do very detailed research of operations and follow meticulous arrangements to complete various kinds of work within a limited workspace.

2. Difficult hoisting of steel parts

To facilitate the assembly of the steel parts, the workers have to use a prone position to assemble the truss columns, which requires a turnover process before they are hoisted. The choice of the hoist points and lug hooks pose great difficulties in the face of bulky and cumbersome steel parts, and the change of pulling stress from three directions must be taken into consideration. The workers need to meticulously rectify angles and positions of the box-typed sectional parts to ensure accurate abutment during the hoisting process.

3. Difficult stabilizing process

They also have to fight the heavy wind load and keep the stability of the steel parts by following a strict working order and use lateral stability measures including the use of anchoring method and wind-holding ropes.

4. Difficult welding

The welders not only face a huge work volume, but also have to work on both the thin steel sheets and thick steel slabs, on high-strength and cast steel elements, and take downward, vertical or overhead positions while welding. They face temperature changes, steel deformation and intensive labor. They need to work above ground, in winter rain and under windy conditions.

5. Difficult installation

The workers face difficulties in ensuring accurate installation as the steel parts and the related gigs and fixtures can be deformed easily under their own dead weight and the change of temperatures. The workers must take pre-installation measures to rectify and relieve the errors that might occur in the process of installation.

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2008 Summer Olympics Beijing -Must Know

1.The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be celebrated in Beijing, People’s Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.

2.Ten thousand, five hundred athletes are expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports.

3.The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001.

4.The official logo of the games, titled “Dancing Beijing,” features a stylised calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city.

5.The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing both a colour of the Olympic rings and a symbol of Chinese culture.The five Fuwa are named Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini.

6.The Olympic slogan,

One World, One Dream

, calls upon the world to unite in the Olympic spirit.It was chosen from over 210,000 entries submitted from around the world.

7.A total of 37 venues will be used to host the events including 12 newly constructed venues.

8.Its largest architectural pieces will be the Beijing National Stadium, Beijing National Indoor Stadium, Beijing National Aquatics Centre, Olympic Green Convention Centre, Olympic Green, and Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center.

9.The centrepiece of the 2008 Summer Olympics will be the Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed the “Bird nest” because of its nest-like skeletal structure.

10.During the games, 2,500 large-size buses and 4,500 minibuses will be operated by a total of 8,000 drivers to transport people across various venues.

11.The design of the Olympic Torch is based on traditional scrolls and uses a traditional Chinese design known as the “Propitious Clouds” (祥云). The torch is designed to remain lit in 65 kilometer per hour winds, and in rain of up to 50 millimeters per hour.

12.The relay, with the theme Journey of Harmony, is expected to last 130 days and carry the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi)—the longest distance of any Olympic torch relay since the tradition began at the 1936 Berlin Games.

13.A total of 21,880 torchbearers have been selected from around the world by various organizations and entities.

14.The flame was carried to the top of Mount Everest on a 108 km (67 mi) long “highway” scaling the Tibetan side of the mountain especially built for the relay.

15.The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing will be held in the Beijing National Stadium, and begin at 8:08pm CST (12:08 UTC) on 8 August 2008.

16.United States will bring about 600 competitors to the games, their largest Olympic team thus far. On the Other hand Afghanistan will be represented by just four competitors.

17.South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, five time gold medalist at the Athens Paralympics in 2004, has qualified to compete at the Beijing Olympics,thus making history by becoming the first amputee to qualify for the Olympic Games since Olivér Halassy in 1936. Natalia Partyka (who was born without a right forearm) will compete in Table Tennis for Poland.

18.The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one event more in total than in Athens.

19.The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” is Latin for “Faster, Higher, Braver,” but is universally accepted to mean “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.”

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20.Participating countries in Beijing Olympics with no. of participants
• Afghanistan (4)
• Albania (11)
• Algeria ( 8)
• American Samoa (4)
• Andorra (5)
• Angola (26)
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina (13 8)
• Armenia (25)
• Aruba (2)
• Australia (433)
• Austria (72)
• Azerbaijan (39)
• Bahamas (19)
• Bahrain (11)
• Bangladesh (5)
• Barbados ( 8)
• Belarus (20 8)
• Belgium (94)
• Belize (3)
• Benin (3)
• Bermuda (6)
• Bhutan (2)
• Bolivia (6)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
• Botswana (2)
• Brazil (277)
• British Virgin Islands (2)
• Brunei (2)
• Bulgaria (72)
• Burkina Faso (4)
• Burundi (3)
• Cambodia (6)
• Cameroon (3)
• Canada (331)
• Cape Verde (3)
• Cayman Islands (3)
• Central African Republic (3)
• Chad (2)
• Chile (27)
• China (639)
• Chinese Taipei (80)
• Colombia (64)
• Comoros (3)
• DR Congo (2)
• Congo (3)
• Cook Islands (4)
• Costa Rica (6)
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Croatia (106)
• Cuba (149)
• Cyprus (17)
• Czech Republic (130)
• Denmark (83)
• Djibouti (4)
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic (23)
• Ecuador (25)
• Egypt (103)
• El Salvador (11)
• Equatorial Guinea (3)
• Eritrea (11)
• Estonia (47)
• Ethiopia (36)
• Fiji (6)
• Finland (55)
• France (323)
• FS Micronesia
• FYR Macedonia (7)
• Gabon (4)
• Gambia (3)
• Georgia (35)
• Germany (439)
• Ghana (9)
• Great Britain (313)
• Greece (159)
• Grenada (1)
• Guam (5)
• Guatemala (12)
• Guinea (1)
• Guinea-Bissau (3)
• Guyana (4)
• Haiti (1)
• Honduras (25)
• Hong Kong, China (34)
• Hungary (171)
• Iceland (26)
• India (57)
• Indonesia (24)
• Iran (55)
• Iraq (2)
• Ireland (54)
• Israel (43)
• Italy (344)
• Jamaica (56)
• Japan (351)
• Jordan (7)
• Kazakhstan (132)
• Kenya (56)
• Kiribati (3)
• South Korea (267)
• North Korea (63)
• Kuwait (6)
• Kyrgyzstan (21)
• Laos (4)
• Latvia (49)
• Lebanon (5)
• Lesotho (4)
• Liberia (3)
• Libya (7)
• Liechtenstein (2)
• Lithuania (69)
• Luxembourg (12)
• Madagascar (4)
• Malawi (4)
• Malaysia (27)
• Maldives (4)
• Mali (12)
• Malta (6)
• Marshall Islands (5)
• Mauritania (2)
• Mauritius (3)
• Mexico (85)
• Moldova (31)
• Monaco (2)
• Mongolia (29)
• Montenegro (17)
• Morocco (49)
• Mozambique (6)
• Myanmar (6)
• Namibia (9)
• Nauru (1)
• Nepal (7)
• Netherlands (245)
• Netherlands Antilles (3)
• New Zealand (182)
• Nicaragua (6)
• Niger
• Nigeria (33)
• Norway (85)
• Oman (4)
• Pakistan (21)
• Palau (4)
• Palestine (4)
• Panama (3)
• Papua New Guinea (7)
• Paraguay (5)
• Peru (12)
• Philippines (15)
• Poland (26 8)
• Portugal (7 8)
• Puerto Rico (22)
• Qatar (22)
• Romania (102)
• Russia (467)
• Rwanda (4)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• São Tomé and Príncipe (3)
• Samoa (6)
• San Marino (4)
• Saudi Arabia (16)
• Senegal ( 8)
• Serbia (92)
• Seychelles ( 8)
• Sierra Leone (2)
• Singapore (25)
• Slovakia (57)
• Slovenia (62)
• Solomon Islands (3)
• Somalia (2)
• South Africa (136)
• Spain (287)
• Sri Lanka ( 8)
• Sudan (9)
• Suriname (4)
• Swaziland (4)
• Sweden (97)
• Switzerland (84)
• Syria (7)
• Tajikistan (13)
• Tanzania
• Thailand (25)
• Timor-Leste (2)
• Togo (1)
• Tonga (3)
• Trinidad and Tobago (2 8)
• Tunisia (32)
• Turkey (6 8)
• Turkmenistan (10)
• Tuvalu (3)
• Uganda (11)
• Ukraine (54)
• United Arab Emirates (5)
• United States (596)
• Uruguay (12)
• Uzbekistan (5 8)
• Vanuatu (3)
• Venezuela (109)
• Vietnam (21)
• Virgin Islands (5)
• Yemen (5)
• Zambia (7)
• Zimbabwe (13)

INDIA Vs PAKISTAN - OLYMPICS

INDIA

1.India is credited for first participating at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete (Norman Pritchard) winning two medals in athletics.The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920, and has participated in every Summer Games since then

Pakistan first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.

2.Indian athletes have won a total of 17 medals, mostly in field hockey. The men’s field hockey team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning eleven medals in twelve Olympiads between 1928 and 1980, including six successive gold medals from 1928–1956.

Pakistani athletes have won a total of ten medals, eight from men’s field hockey. Notably, their gold medal in 1960 ended India’s run of six successive gold medals.

3.The National Olympic Committee for India is the Indian Olympic Association, and was created in 1927.

The National Olympic Committee for Pakistan was created in 1948.

4.Participation
INDIA
Summer Games
1900 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008
PAKISTAN
Summer Games
1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008,Except in 1980(they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.)

5.First Gold for india was won by Indian National Hockey team in 1928 at the Amsterdam olympics for Field hockey.

First Gold for Pakistan was won by Pakistan National Hockey team in 1960 at the Rome olympics for Field hockey.

6.First individual medal for india was a Silver won by NormanNorman Pritchard in 1900 at the Paris olympics in Athletics for Men’s 200 metres,in the same year he won a silver for 200m mens hurdle race.

First individual medal for pakistan in olympics was a Bronze won by Mohammad Bashir in 1960 at the Rome olympics in Wrestling for Men’s freestyle welterweigh.

7.Indian Hockey Team Won Eight GOLD Medals for Field Hockey including six successive gold medals from 1928–1956.

Pakistan Hockey Team won three GOLD medals in Field Hockey,their gold medal in 1960 ended India’s run of six successive gold medals.

8.Till Athens Olympics 2004 India Has won Eight GOLD medals,four SILVER medals an Five BRONZE medals.

Till Athens Olympics 2004 Pakistan Has won Three GOLD medals,Three SILVER medals an Four BRONZE medals.

BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008

9.A contingent of 56 athletes will represent India, and are supported by a support-staff of 42 officials. The athletic contingent is the largest, with 16 athletes.

Pakistan will send 21 athletes, including two women (Sadaf Siddiqu in athletics and Kiran Khan in swimming)


THE TEAMS

10.INDIA

TEAM INDIA

TEAM PAKISTAN

Athletics

* Women’s 100m sprint: Sadaf Siddiqu

Swimming

* Kiran Khan

Shooting

*Siddique Umer

Men’s HOCKEY

* Salman Akbar
* Zeeshan Ashraf
* Muhammad Imran
* Muhammad Javed
* Muhammad Saqlain
* Adnan Maqsood
* Muhammad Waqas
* Waqas Akbar
* Shakeel Abbasi
* Rehan Butt
* Syed Abbas Haider Bilgrami
* Nasir Ahmed
* Syed Imrab Ali Warsi
* Muhammad Asif Rana
* Muhammad Zubair
* Shafqat Rasool

11.The National Flag bearer for TEAM INDIA at the beijing olympics is Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.

The National Flag bearer for TEAM PAKISTAN at the beijing olympics is Zeeshan Ashraf.

12.TEAM INDIA will appear after 54 Nations that is at the 55th position at the Opening Ceremony.

TEAM PAKISTAN will ppear after 43 Nations that is at the 44th position at the Opening Ceremony.

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Beijing Vs Athens - See The Difference

1.Beijing: The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated in Beijing, People’s Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008

Athens: The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004.

2.Beijing: Ten thousand, five hundred athletes are expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports, just one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 games.

Athens: 10,625 athletes competed in 301 events for 28 sports,some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries.

3.Beijing: The 2008 Beijing Olympics will also mark the third time that Olympic events will have been held in the territories of two different National Olympic Committees (NOC): at the 2008 Olympics, equestrian events will be held in Hong Kong, which competes separately from mainland China.

Athens: Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1896 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.

4.Beijing: The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001.

Athens: Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne on September 5, 1997

5.Beijing: The official logo of the games, titled “Dancing Beijing,” features a stylised calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city.

Athens: Ancient victors were crowned with olive wreaths (Greek: kotinos) — a tradition echoed
with this Games’ medalists. The colours of the logo come from the flag of Greece.

6.Beijing: The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing both a colour of the Olympic rings and a symbol of Chinese culture.

Athens: Mascots have been a tradition at the Olympic Games since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. The Athens games had two official mascots: Athiná and Phévos (pronounced in Greek, Athina and Fivos).

7.Beijing: These games will be the first to be produced and broadcast entirely in high definition television, and will likely garner upwards of 4 billion viewers.

Athens: For the first time, major broadcasters were allowed to serve video coverage of the Olympics over the Internet, provided that they restricted this service geographically, to protect broadcasting contracts in other areas. For instance, the BBC made their complete live coverage available to UK high-speed Internet customers for free; customers in the U.S. were only able to receive delayed excerpts

8.Beijing: The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing will be held in the Beijing National Stadium, and begin at 8:00pm CST (12:00 UTC) on 8 August 2008.The choice of date (8/8/0 8) and time reflect the fact that the number 8 is considered lucky in China.
It has been announced that Canada’s Celine Dion, Taiwan’s Jay Chou, Britain’s Sarah Brightman and China’s Liu Huan would perform during the opening ceremony.

Athens: The widely praised Opening Ceremony by avant garde choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou held on August 13, 2004 began with a twenty eight (the number of the Olympiads up to then) second countdown paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat. As the countdown was completed, fireworks rumbled and illuminated the skies overhead.the Parade of Nations, during which the Dutch DJ Tiësto provided the music, the Icelandic singer Björk performed the song Oceania, written specially for the event by her and the poet Sjón.

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