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'Good Luck Beijing'

The finals of the Good Luck Beijing 2008 track and field event, this evening at the "Bird's Nest" stadium that will be the center of the Olympic Games, was on the whole a promising omen on the "is Beijing ready?" front concerning the Olympics. On the... ...full story at James Fallows

from James Fallows on Sun, May 25 2008

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29 Mar 08		Mr Hu Jintao at Beijing 2008, the Bird's Nest. » YouTube videoMr. Hu inaugurates the Olympic Games of Beijing 2008 at the Bird's Nest stadium... He is proud on his little boat but something is going wrong... The water in front of the bird's nest is turning red! Ooops, that's not clean! And all the world press is...
28 May 08		A tale of two stadiums » Countdown to Beijing This weekend, Beijing inaugurated the new Bird’s Nest Stadium with the “Good Luck Beijing” track and field event. I attended less than 24 hours after covering the earthquake in Sichuan, and the contrast between sports and rubble was a...
24 Aug 08		IOC chief: Beijing Olympic Games "truly exceptional Games" » People's Daily &$ &$International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge delivers a speech at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games closing ceremony in the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China, on Aug. 24, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)&$&$ The Beijing...
27 May 08		Photos from the Good Luck Games » Danwei Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). The Bird's Nest (fuzheado) Good Luck...
21 Jan 08		Nest wins vote » Shanghai Daily CHINA'S National Stadium, known as the "Bird's Nest," leads the ranking of Beijing's new landmarks. The stadium, the main venue for the 2008 Olympic Games, took 52,671 votes out of 72,841 in a ballot organized by a local newspaper. Beijing West...
17 Aug 08		Real-time weather service provided at Olympic venues » Shanghai Daily BEIJING Municipal Meteorological Bureau has dispatched a team of meteorological experts and weathermen to the National Stadium, also known as Bird's Nest, to better serve track and field events to be held in the stadium...

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