Double Olympic gold medal winner Rebecca Adlington is to be honoured in her home town of Mansfield today as she returns after her swimming success in Beijing. ...full story at Sky News
from Sky News on Tue, Aug 26 2008
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| 03 Aug 08 |
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Card Sharks: How Much Gold is in a Gold Medal? »
YouTube video If your friend is going to Beijing and trying to win that Olympic Gold and sell it off at $1,000 an ounce, you might want to tell them how much gold is really in a Gold Medal, This is from 1988 in time for those Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. |
| 11 Aug 08 |
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India, Britain end long waits for Olympic gold » Countdown to Beijing In all the excitement over Michael Phelps and his bid for eight golds it’d be easy to overlook a few other extraordinary achievements at the Games today. Amid the gold rush at the Water Cube, Rebecca Adlington won Britain’s first Olympi... |
| 12 Aug 08 |
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Guo sends a solid gold plea to missing dad » Shanghai Daily GUO Wenjun, who grabbed a gold medal in the women's 10-meter air pistol for China on Sunday, said she hoped her Olympic success would make another of her dreams come true - for her father to come home. Guo's... |
| 29 Aug 08 |
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China: The Cost of a Gold Medal » Global Voices Zhaomu re-posted a forum article which calculated the cost of a gold medal exemplified by the Olympic shooting team. It is estimated that a gold medal costs between RMB30 - 80 millions (around US4.5 - 10 million). |
| 10 Jun 08 |
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Hu Jia out of running for Olympic gold » Danwei Hu Jia: gold medal bellyflop • Chinese media reports say diver Hu Jia, who won gold in the men’s 10-meter platform at the 2004 Olympics, will not compete in Beijing due to injuries (see full report). • Liu Xiang didn’t run in either of two e... |
| 13 Aug 08 |
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Two very eloquent articles about the people behind China's gold-medal run » James Fallows This wonderful article by Rebecca Blumenstein in the Wall Street Journal, about Chen Yanqing, a female Chinese weightlifter who is now a repeat Olympic gold medalist and part of the dominant Chinese weight squad I've been following on TV. The article was... |
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