奥运短讯

BOCOG briefs IOC on 2008 Games preparationsThe 2008 Olympic organizers on August 29 briefed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on their progress in the Olympic preparations over past six months.Speaking via satellite hookup with the IOC Executive Board, LiuQi, President of Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), said that BOCOG s preparations mainly focused on a series of fundamental work since their last meeting with the IOC Executive Board in February.     

北京奥组委开门纳贤(英文)

A public recruitment push by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) to fill its 56 positions has aroused tremendous enthusiasm since October 17.More than 2.000 applications, as well as over 600 phone calls, 200 e-mails and 1.9 million website hits have been registered by BOCOG."I would like to devote myself to the holding of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which is a great event for every Chinese." an anonymous applicant for one of BOCOG's positions said.He said although the salary would not be as high as some foreign companies, working on the committee would be a wonderful opportunity for sports and Olympic fans.     

奥运赞助商与千年古都亲密接触(英文)

The IOC Sponsor Advisory Group (SAG), headed by Gerhard Heiberg, Chairman of the IOC Marketing Commission, paid a visit to Beijing from October 21 to 24 and said that they were keen to establish a close and cooperative relationship with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG).Jiang Xiaoyu, Vice President of BOCOG, briefed the IOC SAG on Beijing s overall preparations for the 2008 Olympics, saying all work is progressing according to the plan without a hitch.On behalf of the IOC SAG, Heiberg expressed the eagerness to establish a close and cooperative relationship with BOCOG.     

奥园,领跑新生活

Aoyuan, or Olympic Garden, is a new concept of residence in China. The sports-theme residence buildings named as Aoyuan have been built in metropolises Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing and will soon extend to Chengdu, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shenyang. It is expected that by the end of 2003 there will be 17 Aoyuans in China, which will accommodate a total of 500,000 people.     

北京奥运大“减负”

Chinese Olympic organizations and athletes will be either granted preferential taxpolicies or be totally exempt from paying tax at the 2008 Beijing Games,the Ministryof Finance,the State Administration of Taxation(SAT)and the General Administrationof Customs have announced. According to the notice,the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games(BOCOG),the International Olympic Committee(IOC),the China Olympic Committee     

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games:Commitments to science and public health

The Beijing 24th 2022 Winter Olympic Games present a unique opportunity to promote the spirit and values of the Olympic Games in relation to their impact on physical activity and global health,sports medicine,and sports performance.The 2022 Winter Olympic Games mark the 98th year since the first Winter Games were held in Chamonix,France,in 1924.The inaugural Winter Olympic Games sponsored 16 events,and 250 athletes from 16 nations participated.1 In contrast,the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games will sponsor 109 events.     

伦敦申奥学北京(英文)

Beijing, the 2008 Olympic host, has set a good example toLondon's planned bid for the 2012 Olympics, a senior officialof the British Olympic Association (BOA) said recently. Apart from the technical excellence of the Beijing Bid, theclear lesson for the British Government is the necessity of totalgovernment support for the process, BOA Chairman CraigReedie told Xinhua News Agency. The Beijing Bid was outstanding in this regard as everyoneknew that it enjoyed complete government…     

奥运场馆溶入校园

Beijing,the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games,plans to build more Olympicvenues in universities in order to avoid wasting resources after the Games."In view of the post-Games utilization,we have decided to build more venues oncampus,”said Liu Qi,president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008Olympic Games(BOCOG).     

北京“取经”雅典

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will help Torino and Beijing prepare for the 2006 Winter and 2008 Summer Olympic Games by sending staff of these two organizing committees to participate in Athens' preparations for the 2004 Olympic.     

IOC满意在北京

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) lavished praise on the progress Beijing had made in the first year after the Chinese capital was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games.The IOC s Coordination Commission had its first full meeting with the Beijing Organizing Committee (BOCOG) on December 2-4, 2002, listening to BOCOG's progress report on construction, sport, Olympic Village and services, environment, communication, marketing, accommodation and technology. The Coordination Commission also visited the city's light railway, the fourth- and fifth-ring roads, and the Olympic Green.     

Partner With Beijing Olympics

China Mobile, China Network Communications, Bank of China and Volkswagen China have joined Beijing's Olympic team.The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) selected China Mobile Communications Group Corporation and China Network Communications Group Corporation (CNC) in July 2004 as its mobile communications service partner and fixed     

Steel Rosesto Take“Every Chance”

Chinese women's soccer team have not been givenany target in the Athens Olympic Games but they willtake "every chance" to fight for honor. Xue Li, vice-president of the Chinese FootballAssociation (CFA) said: "The CFA will not assign atask to the players, but they will, as always, take everychance to play well for their country." "The Olympic Games is a big occasion and you cannever give up in an Olympic field," Xue said. "Youmust play your best in every game in Athens." The Steel …     

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics:An opportunity to promote physical activity and winter sports in Chinese youth

TagedPIn February and March 2022,China will host the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.The vision for this landmark event promises a“joyful rendezvous upon pure ice and snow uniting the passion of hundreds of millions for winter sports”.1 Themes have been developed to create a positive environmental impact with new development for the northern region of the country and to promote winter sports and improve the health and well-being of the Chinese people.The key messages for the winter games include inspiring youth with the Olympic spirit and encouraging millions to embrace winter sports.Notably,the Chinese government aims to mobilize at least 300 million of its citizens to engage in winter sports as an outcome of hosting the Winter Olympic Games.     

翩然出世“中国印”

On Aug. 3, as the evening sky darkened to match the deep blue roof tiles of the landmark Hall of Prayers for Good Harvests, kung-fu movie star Jackie Chan and Chinese women's table tennis champion Deng Yaping carried an ornate golden box to the white steps outside the hall.Chinese parliament chief Wu Bangguo and IOC Coordination Commission chairman Hein Verbruggen removed a jade seal and stamped the emblem in red ink on piece of paper.The unveiling of the official emblem for the 2008 Olympic Games was put on in the presence of 2,008 ViPs and to an audience of 400 million TV viewers at a spectacular show that was broadcast live. The Beijing Games organizers say the emblem had passed six stages of design and modification to be what it is.     

奥运短讯

Steel Group to Partly RelocateShougang Group, one of China's largest steel mills, plans to move some of its facilities out of Beijing next year to further ease pollution in the city ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.The facilities, capable of producing 2 million tons of steel per year, will be relocated to Qian'an County in Hebei Province, which borders Beijing. Shougang has an iron ore base in Qian'an.Shougang, located in southwestern Beijing, used to be one of major polluters in the city.     

BOCOG圆满定格2002

Liu Jingmin, executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), said recently that all the tasks for the year 2002, the first year after Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, had been completed on schedule.     

体育消费者权益保护的法律适用

Sports consumption is the important strength to promote economic development,so it is significant to protect sports consumer's rights and interests. Sports consumer should be defined to be the individual who purchase sports goods or sports service for sports life. It's very important to protect sports consumers' individual information right,safety right and the right of returning goods without reason,and the articles in the Consumers Protection Law amendment has been improved and will be significant in application. The Sports Law should be also amended accordingly ,and it's necessary to support the formation of public interest litigation in sports consumption field.     

Olympic Education and Cross-Cultural Communication

In recent years, Olympic education has received increasingly greater attention. It is not just Olympic host cities that have established specialized Olympic education prograrnmes across the board, but also non-host cities are developing Olympic education activities to different degrees. Olympic education has also become an important project in the Olympic preparatory work, and has been an important project in the preparations for the Beijing Olympics. How to understand Olympic education? There are many different ways of looking at it. This essay attempts to take the unique characteristics of Olympic education as a starting point to explore the important role played by issues of cross-cultural communication in Olympic education.     

Olympic Education and Cross-Cultural Communication

In recent years,Olympic education has received increasingly greater attention.It is not just Olympic host cities that have established specialized Olympic education programmes across the board,but also non-host cities are developing Olympic education activities to different degrees.Olympic education has also become an important project in the Olympic preparatory work,and has been an important project in the preparations for the Beijing Olympics.How to understand Olympic education? There are many different ways of looking at it.This essay attempts to take the unique characteristics of Olympic education as a starting point to explore the important role played by issues of cross-cultural communication in Olympic education.     

北京交通锁定奥运时速(英文)

Beijing has stepped up efforts to provide a safer and quicker transport system for the2008 Olympic Games through planned special transport lines connecting Olympic venueswith the city's external and internal routes."We are confident of fulfilling the promises we made that it will take less than 30 minutesfor athletes and coaches to get from where they live to any gymnasium and stadium in2008," said Liu Xiaoming, professor and vice-president of Beijing Polytechnic University.