During the Olympic Games, one of the things that interested me was the debate about the medals table. Some people were saying that the method of publishing the rankings so that gold medals were counted first, then silver and so on, led to a distortion of the achievements of each country. Thus, as one commentator pointed out, a country with only one gold medal would be higher in the rankings than a country that had fifty silvers.
Have you heard about that other 2008 Olympic wonder? NO… No not Michael Phelps– Dara Torres. Here is a short Dana Torres Biography Dara Torres has to be an inspiration to “Baby Boomers” everywhere! You see Torres is 41 years old and she is currently swimming at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She dared to enter the 2008 Olympics and swim a “young person’s race” — The 100 Meter Freestyle.
Olympic Baseball 2008 finds the United States in a mammoth struggle to thwart the emerging dominance of Japan and Cuba for baseball supremacy around the globe. The XXIXth Olympiad of the Modern Era of the Olympic Baseball 2008 Games may let the curtain fall on the game of baseball.
In Greece 776 B.C., a Pan-Hellenic festival consisting of athletic games and contests of choral poetry and dance, commenced. A sacred flame was used to begin the games and was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. Historians believe this Olympic flame was first created in a temple erected by the ancient Greeks to honor the powerful queen of the mythological gods, Hera. Others remind us the Olympic torch commemorates the theft of fire by Prometheus from the Greek god Zeus. Today, however, we may be getting quite a different message.
The full range of female athletes on the 2008 Olympic teams makes it clear that age and family responsibilities are not the barriers to participation in the Games they used to be. Stories from Beijing highlight the courage and resolve of the mothers of the world - as they demonstrate their athletic prowess and win gold or silver medals. Significant are the 20 mothers on the USA Olympic team, including past medalists - swimmer Dara Torres, basketball player Lisa Leslie, and softball player, Jennie Finch.
The global audience for the Beijing Olympic Games was good for the world society and for its economy. Corporate sponsors of the Olympics are among the greatest beneficiaries.
Winners at the Olympics get all the global attention but losers continue to excel in their sport between quadrennial events. Becoming one of the best three athletes in a country teaches athletes the art of losing well in order to keep going toward the Olympic level.
The author gives four compelling reasons why the 2016 Summer Olympics should be held in Brazil. Since the Olympics are still fresh in everyone’s mind, it is not too early to look to the future.
Cuba-traditionally the powerhouse in baseball- were beaten by the Dominican Republic at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana, Cuba. The Dominican Republic won the gold medal. The champions were Victor Mercedes, Orlando Guerrero, Enrique Cruz, Johnny Olivo, Julio Dominguez, Mario Marte, Pedro Gomez, Ivan Crispin, Wilfredo Fernandez…
As the 2008 Olympic Games are broadcast around the world, one little known Olympic feat wasn’t performed by any athlete, but by the China’s Next Generation Internet project (CNGI). CNGI launched a cornucopia of fixed and mobile broadband technologies over the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to demonstrate China’s technology advancement to the world. With government mandates and subsidies supporting IPv6 transition in China, South Korea, and Japan, as well as skyrocketing Internet use in those regions, the question is will China and the rest of Asia leapfrog America and Europe in advanced communication technologies.
