Stories about Sport from July, 2008
China: Another Friend Missing at MSN
Mo Zhi xu missed another friend, Du Dao-bin, at his MSN list before the Olympics. Du has to stay in prison for 2 years and 5 months because of his...
Kazakhstan: Olympics Blogwatch
On the eve of the Beijing Olympiad, the Kazakhstani bloggers discuss what chances their country has to performs decently in summer sports.
China: How you feeling about the Olympics?
Joel at Fool's Mountain recently took to the street where he lives in Beijing neighbor city Tianjin to ask locals what they think about next month's Olympics. He took video...
China: Tianjin People's View on Olympics
Joel posts a video on Tianjin’s LaoBaiXing's view (common people) on the significance of Olympics.
East Timor in SEA games logo
Asia's Perfect 10 raised a valid issue. The Southeast Asian (SEA) games logo has 10 rings representing the countries of the region. Another ring should be added to include Timor...
China: Olympic Intellectual Property Right
Two cold gets the information that in order to protect intellectual property right, bloggers can't do live video cast nor post Olympic photos on their blogs. Moreover, there are other...
China: Tiananmen Security Check
Huang An-nian has a strong feeling that the security in Tiananmen has become stricter before Beijing Olympics.
Colombia: 60th Anniversary of Professional Football
Rafa XII of equinoXio provides some historical details regarding the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Colombian Professional Football league.
China: Olympic Condom
Consumer products in China try very hard to capture the Olympic concept in their product. This Olympic condom ads has become rather popular in the internet.
China: Olympic Ads
Adrienne Wong from Shanghaiist noticed that the Amnesty International anti-Olympic Ads and Adidas Olympic Ads were designed by the same company (TBWA).
Hong Kong: Buying Money
The Bank of China in Hong Kong has issued a set of commemorative banknotes for Beijing Olympics. Thousands started to line up three days ahead for buying the paper money...
Nigeria: Football coaching scams
Foreign Policy's Passport Blog comments on the recent BBC story about Nigerian fake talent spotter scam, in which “conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out...
Trinidad & Tobago: Polluted Olympics
Looking ahead to the Olympics next month, Trinidad's Life from a caffeine hyped point of view says pollution is a sobering reality of these Games. Seeing photos of pollution, she...
China: Olympics and Politics
Kang Guo-ping (康國平) felt that the Beijing Olympics is getting more and more politicized because of the fear of terrorists attack.
China: On Olympic Design
Chong translated excerpt of Ai Wei Wei's (艾未未) interview on Beijing Olympic design. The full article in China can be found here.
China: The Upside Down Commemorative Notes for Olympics
The People's Bank of China has issued a commemorative note with a face value of 10 Yuan to mark next month's Beijing Olympic Games. However, before most of the collectors had a chance to get it, a blogger named Naughty Lion pointed out a "mistake" in the backdrop of the special notes.
China: Olympic Bible Cover
Rob from Black and White Cat blogs about the publishing of New Testament's “Special Edition for the Beijing 2008 Olympic game”.
Armenia: Political Football
Unzipped comments on an opinion piece by Armenia's new president published by the Wall Street Journal in which Serge Sargsyan hopes that September's Armenia-Turkey football World Cup qualifying match in...
China: Summer Olympics Disaster Guide
Probably going to see a lot more posts like this in the coming few weeks, so let this be GVO's chance to (hopefully) get it out of the way now:...
China: Blood Storage and Internet Censorship For Olympics
Keeptalking pointed to two local news, one on Beijing city government's call for reserving blood for the Olympics, one on Guangzhou city government's announcement on increasing internet and mobile phone...
Bulgaria: Bojidar Antonov
Via Veni Markovski, a link to a Bulgarian-language blog of Bojidar Antonov, who has recently finished a 30-day, 1,500-kilometer run across Bulgaria. (An intro in English is here.)
