| TheOriginalWinger

Pretty amazing opening to the 2008 Olympics and are you serious with the way he lit the torch? I'm glad they didn't use Yao to light the torch because I couldn't see him being held up that long..

UPDATE - First days results are on the books. Norway 2, United States 0 Japan 2, New Zealand 2 Brazil 0, Germany 0 Canada 2, Argentina 1 North Korea 1, Nigeria 0 China 2, Sweden 1 via WNT Blog Aug. 6 vs. Norway Venue: Qinhuangdao Broadcast Start Time MSNBC (7:30 a.m. ET) Universal HD (7:30 a.m. ET) - Replay at 8 p.m. ...

U.S. Men's Olympic Soccer Team TV Schedule: Aug. 7 vs. Japan Venue: Tianjin MSNBC 4:55 a.m. ET Universal HD 4:55 a.m. ET NBC Olympic Soccer Channel 5 a.m. ET Aug. 10 vs. Netherlands Venue: Tianjin USA Network 7:30 a.m. ...

  Interesting article from the Washington Post. BEIJING -- My country is about to host the world's greatest sporting event and, we hope, claim a truckload of Olympic gold. But to hundreds of millions of Chinese, our widely anticipated bonanza of medals will mean very little. The real metric by which China judges itself against the rest of the ...

With all the Olympic rosters dropping, why not? Yes and Yes. images via KicksOnFire

Olympic host China has made the non-surprising/surprising move of firing Serbian born head coach Ratomir Dujkovic and replacing him with former Super League's Qingdao Zhongneng coach Yin Tiesheng. The sacking came just three days after Dujkovic named his final squad for the Olympic Games. China squad: Qiu Shengjiong, Li Weifeng, Shen Longyuan, ...

Nike is prepping for the Olympics in Beijing on a whole nother level. With China being the biggest emerging market, Nike is attempting to cement themselves in China as the leader. Videos such as these where they project some of China's best athletes onto the the side of the new government CCTV building are definitely a step in the right direction ...

UPDATE -  Looks like there might be a little Radiation leak caused by the Earthquake. This quake was reported to be a 7.8 by major news agencies. What would happen if the Olympics were taking place and an earthquake of this magnitude hit? There's always possibilities for natural disasters to happen, but with the Summer Olympics only months ...