Category — Sport

With less than a week until the Olympics are over, there are still are few more Olympic related posts to come!

The Big Picture again compiles a series of excellent photos, this time of the women’s fencing rounds. The photos show some pretty dramatic and emotional scenes of passionate competitors inside a large, darkened stadium.

See all Women’s Beijing Olympics Fencing photos

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Coke merchandise for the Beijing Olympics includes twelve trading pins designed by two Chinese artists - Tim Tsui and Alice Chan.

They’ll be available at the Olympic Village but I’m not sure about anywhere else.

Via VinylPulse

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These are a variant of the pictograms being used for the events at the Beijing Olympics, that the NY Times used in their Olympics section.

Traditional Chinese stamp stylee!

Via SwissMiss

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I know this might not be terribly interesting to some of you, but these martial artists performing at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics were wearing Feiyue shoes that we posted about before.

They probably got a good deal supplying so many and for such an event, but still, at least they’re sticking to local brands.

Wanting to get some because they’re wearing them isn’t quite the same scale as wanting something because Brad Pitt wore them.

But if you want to jump around like a martial artist, check out Feiyue shoes in our previous post. And no, I’m not on commission.

Photo from the Big Picture.

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There’s going to be alot of sporting action in the coming days of course. Anything quirky enough to make it to One Inch Punch will now go straight into the new 2008 Beijing Olympics category.

Remembering previous posts, there was the Beijing Mosaic Made Out of 28,000 Acrylic Fingernails, somehow, sounding not so impressive after seeing the ceremony. But still good!

We might get a chance to see the Youngest Professional Rock Band in China again since they performed in the closing ceremony for the Olympic culture festival in Beijing last year.

Wlll they still sell square watermelons with the Beijing Olympic logo?

And lastly, the Olympics were one reason for learning Chinese in ten reasons given in one of our very first posts : Top Ten Reasons why you should Learn Chinese. Check out the other nine reasons!

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So did you catch the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics earlier today? If not, The Big Picture has quickly got a series of excellent photos of the event, some of my favourites below.

Especially impressive for me were the co-ordinated spectacles involving hundreds of people. Shrinking down the images below to fit in my layout, do the photos no justice, so click on over to Big Picture to see them better!

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

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A woman complains about unfairness while policemen try to keep order, as thousands of people wait in line for more than 24 hours to buy Olympic tickets in Beijing, on July 25, 2008.

Unwashed, unfed, and lacking sleep, scores of Chinese queued for their last chance at the tickets, with police straining to hold back crowds that threatened to break barricades. Tickets for the Beijing Games have officially sold out.

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Wushu practitioners take part in the last rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, on August 5, 2008.

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