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The Olympic Games of summer of 2008 known also under the name of plays of XXIXe Olympiad , will be the twenty-ninth plays organized of the modern era, and will take place with Beijing/Beijing, in Popular republic of China, between the 8 and the August 24th. The opening ceremony will start at 8 a.m. 8 minutes 8 seconds of the evening, local time, on August 8th, 2008 (08-08-08 08:08: 08, the eight being a symbol of prosperity and infinite in the Chinese Culture). The tests of veil will proceed with Qingdao, to 690 km of Beijing, and of the matches of football will take place with Tianjin, Shanghai and Qinhuangdao. In addition, the July 8th 2005, the International Olympic committee announced that the equestrian tests of Sports will be held finally with HongKong.

Selection of the host city

See also: Contenu=Voir the article on ''' [[Candidatures for the Olympic Games of 2008]] ''' and ''' [[Results of the elections of the hosts cities of the été#Jeux Olympic Games Olympic ones of summer of 2008]], [[results of the election of the host city of the 2008 Olympics]] '''

Beijing was elected organizing city the July 13rd 2001, at the time of the 112e session of CIO to Moscow, in front of the towns of Toronto, Paris, Istanbul and Osaka. Five other cities were not selected at the time of a first choice in 2000: Bangkok, Havana, Kuala Lumpur, and Seville.

In 1993, Beijing had missed the organization of the plays of the year 2000, vis-a-vis Sydney, 43 votes with 45.

Organization

Sites of the competitions

See also: Contenu=Voir ''' [[Sites of the Olympic Games 2008]] '''

The Plays of Beijing will proceed on 37 sites of competition among which twelve are entirely new, eleven were renovated, eight are temporary and the remainder is located out of the Chinese capital (HongKong for horsemanship, Qingdao for the sail and various football stadiums). On these sites, will be held over 18 days of competition, 302 tests in 28 sports declined in 38 discipines, which represents 623 sessions of competition in all. The architectural philosopher's stones are the national Stade of Beijing " nest of oiseau" , and the Olympic swimming pool " cubic of eau" , constuits side by side, the national Gymnasium, the Olympic village, and the Arts center and sporting of Wukesong.

More than 300.000 houses were demolished and their inhabitants rehoused around Beijing for the preparation of the plays. The Pekinese police force apprehended a good number of inhabitants to have protested against expulsions.

CIO announced the July 8th 2005 that the equestrian tests will be held with HongKong.

nautical Competitions (veil) with Qingdao, province of Shandong on the Yellow Sea.
Competitions of horsemanship to HongKong.

Weather

Heat and an high rate of moisture (77%) reigns on Beijing in August. The average of precipitations is 12 days over the month. They are sometimes violent. Fearing a watering at the worst time (on August 8th, 2008, day of the opening ceremony, for example), the Chinese authorities developed a system consisting in drawing in the clouds using rockets faggots from chemicals in order to make rain… at another place, thus cutting the " route" of a possible depression.

The other main issue to which the athletes will have to face is pollution, intense with Beijing, surrounded by six peripherals, and where, these last years, of the million cars the million bicycles replaced. There too, the authorities promised to act, on the one hand by limiting drastiquement the circulation (a test was made in August 2007 while authorizing to roll in alternation only the vehicles whose number plate ended in an even/odd number), on the other hand by stopping the production of the most polluting factories of the surroundings and finally, while having completed the very many building sites which in this city, do not relate to only the Olympic Games…

Public transport

August 1st

Marketing

Logo

The logo of the Olympic Games of Beijing is officially revealed on August 3rd, 2003 at the time of a ceremony to the Temple of the Sky organized by the Steering Committee of the Plays of XXIXe Olympiade of Beijing (shortened BOCOG for Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games off the XXIX Olympiad in English). In the presence of more than 2000 sorted on the shutter, of the president of the co-ordinating Committee of CIO Hein Verbruggen, the president of the Standing Committee of the Popular national assembly Wu Bangguo presented the emblême competition entitled Beijing dancing .

This official logo represents a red Chinese seal on which figure the character Jing (京, of 北京/Beijing/Bei' jing' ) stylized as a dancing man. The red of the seal, which points out the historical and political heritage Chinese, is associated with the five multicoloured rings of the Olympic Drapeau, symbol of the universalism of the Olympic movement. In the center the inscription calligraphiée in English Beijing 2008 underlining appears the influence of the language in the Olympic universe and the communication.

In a video diffused during the ceremony. In March 2003, the International Olympic committee had approved the official logo suggested by the Steering Committee (English: " One World, One Dream" ; Chinese: 同一个世界同一个梦想). The slogan invites the whole world to join the Olympic spirit and to build a better future for humanity. It was selected among more than 210.000 proposals presented in the whole world.

a world, a dream , also refers to the proper dreams of China: to contribute to the Olympic Games, to gain a gold medal there, and finally to accommodate them. China already filled the first two wishes, and can carry out its dream by accommodating the Olympic Games of summer of 2008.

Tickets

August 1st

Relay of the flame

See also: Relay of the Olympic flame 2008

The plans accepted by the CIO for the course of the Olympic flame were revealed on April 26th, 2007 with Beijing. The relay, with the topic " A voyage in harmonie" and the slogan " Light crowned fire, propagates our rêve" , will last a hundred and thirty days, covering a distance of 137.000 kilometers, the longest distance from all the courses of the Olympic relay. The course crossed as usual the five continents, and will pass by certain points of the Silk route.

The relay will begin the March 25th 2008 with Olympie, in Greece. It will cross Greece to arrive at Beijing the March 31st. The torch will begin then its road through the five continents. It will pass thus by Paris on April 7th, 2008. An attempt will also appear to bring the flame in top of the Mount Everest (Qomolangma).

The Olympic torch, of red color " enamel chine" is in anodic Aluminum, being presented in the form of a curved roller whose higher end forms a " cloud of good augure" (Xiangyun). The torch is made to remain lit by winds of 65 km/h, and under rains of 50 millimetres per hour.

Participating nations

See also: List of the participating nations to the Olympic Games of summer

After the Olympic Games of summer of 2004, the only sovereign nations not to have never contributed to this event were the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and the the Vatican. The Marshall Islands are affiliated with the International Olympic committee since February 2006 and plan to take part in the plays. With regard to Tuvalu, the 119ème session of the CIO in 2007 also accepted the presence of this microphone-nation within the committee and its participation in 2008.

Since 2006, the Montenegro (associate also recently with the CIO) and the Serbia are sovereign and independent nations. They will take part under their clean Drapeau in the Olympic Games.

The North Korea and the South Korea plan to send a team common at the time of these plays to Beijing. For this reason, the representatives of the two Olympic committees, in an interview with the president of CIO Jacques Rogge the September 5th 2006, discussed this possibility. In the past both Korea ravelled under the same banner at the time of the opening ceremonies, but never contributed together. Fault of agreement on the representation of the Athlete S of the two nations, the discussion was pushed back later on.

Competition

Innovations

The program of Beijing 2008 is rather similar to that of the plays of Athens. The twenty-eight sports of the plays of Athens will be again present, gathering 302 tests, that is to say one moreover than with Athens. Last nine new tests will be held:

Athletics: the female 3.000m steeple makes its appearance.
Cycling: BMX is registered for the first time at the program of the plays (men and women).
Swimming: entry of swimming long distance with the 10 km in freestyle (men and women).
Fencing: the foil by teams and the saber by teams were added to the program ladies.
Table tennis: the tests of doubles are replaced by tests by team (men and women).

Other modifications were made in order to reduce the difference between the participation of the men and that of the women to the Plays. Thus, it was decided to increase the number of teams taking part in the female tournaments of Field hockey, Handball and Football.

Sports

Calendar

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n ! align=" left" | Swimming | |||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" | 4||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |4 ||||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 |||||| |- ! align=" left" | synchronized Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 || |- ! align=" left" | Dive | |||||||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 || |- ! align=" left" | Toilets sports shirt | |||||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | modern Pentathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|||| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Softball | |||||||||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|||||| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2|| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Tennis | |||||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2|||||||||||||| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Table tennis | |||||||||||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Shooting | |||||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|||||||||||||| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Shooting with the arc | |||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|||||||||||||||||| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Triathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|||||||||| |- ! colspan=" 2" align=" left" | Veil | |||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |2|||||| |- |rowspan=" 2" | ! align=" left" | Beach volleyball | |||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1|||| |- ! align=" left" | Volley ball | |||||||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=#FFDF80| ||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1||bgcolor=" BFD7FF" |1 |- ! colspan=" 3" |August 2008 ! 6!! 7!! 8!! 9!! 10!! 11!! 12!! 13!! 14!! 15!! 16!! 17!! 18!! 19!! 20!! 21!! 22!! 23!! 24 |}

Table of the medals

Controversies and threats of boycott

Mobilized for several months, of many organizations with the Boycott Olympic Games of Beijing have called, pretexting that the Popular republic of China does not respect the human rights in its country, have an aggressive foreign politics towards the Tibet and that many Olympic sites are strongly threatened by pollution.

Human rights

August 1st CIO believed that the plays would improve the statute of the ethnic minorities, political and religious. However, few concrete signs show a peaceful opening, which it is about the Tibet, of the Xinjiang of the patriotic Associations, the free elections or the human rights in general.

According to association Reporters without borders, hundred journalists, Net surfers and militants of freedom of expression are currently held in China popular, while Internet remains censured (Wikipédia, for example, is not accessible) by authorities which regularly continue to block or close sites, while tracking the Net surfers " dissidents" via their IP addresses

According to Amnesty International, in an official statement diffused on April 30th, 2007, “In spite of important reforms of the system related to the capital punishment and new rules for the foreign journalists in China, the country hardly seems to progress in other fields relating to the human rights and the Olympic Games; moreover, the repression of the militants of the human rights and the Chinese journalists intensifies”

Environment

August 1st

Media

August 1st

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