Fun Facts of the XXIX Olympiad

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Fun Facts of the XXIX Olympiad
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Host City Beijing, China

• Attractions
• The Forbidden City
• Tiananmen Square
• Great Wall
• Stats
• Approximately 15 million people
• Chinas 2nd largest city

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Duration

• Opening Ceremonies
• August 8, 2008

• 16 days of competition

• Closing Ceremonies
• August 24, 2008

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Participants

• Nearly 11,000 athletes

• 205 countries represented

• 28 sports
• 302 events
• 165 for men
• 127 for women

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Emblems

• Logo Chinese Seal, Dancing Beijing

• Slogan One World, One Dream
• Poster

• Mascot five dolls
• draw color and inspiration from Olympic rings

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Top Medal Winners(as of August 13th)

• Countries
• 1st United States with 30 medals
• 10 Gold, 8 Silver, 12 Bronze
• 2nd China with 29 medals
• 18 Gold, 6 Silver, 5 Bronze
• Individual
• Michael Phelps swimming
• 5 Gold
• For up-to-date medal counts Who's winning

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Medals

• Front has standard design prescribed by
  International Olympic Committee
• Back has Beijing Games emblem engraved in metal
  centerpiece
• Symbolize nobility and virtue and traditional
  Chinese values of ethics and honor
• 70mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness

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Current Information

• Beijing Time
• Pacific Time 15 hrs
• Eastern Time 12 hrs
• Example
• Ashland
• 200pm Tuesday
• Add 15 hrs
• Beijing
• 500am Wednesday

• Beijing weather
• Weather updated 0200 AM ET82Hi 88 Lo 73
• M/Cloudy

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Looking Ahead

• Summer 2012 Olympic Games
• Host London, England
• Dates July 27th-August 12th, 2012

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