Olympic Games
Beijing 2008, Olympic Games
Subject
Beijing 2008
Dates
08.08.2008 - 24.08.2008
Background
BEIJING 2008, China
Dates: from 8 to 24 August 2008.
Participants: 204 NOCs, 302 events, 10,942 athletes (6,305 men, 4,637 women).
Olympic oath (athletes): Yining Zhang, table tennis.
Olympic oath (officials): Liping Huang, gymnastics.
Olympic cauldron lit by: Ning Li.
Officially opened by: the President of the Peoples Republic of China, Jintao Hu.
Emblem: entitled “Dancing Beijing”, the emblem combined the art of calligraphy and sport, the latter being represented by a human silhouette running in celebration of victory.
Mascots: five mascots represented the Beijing Games, including four animals: “Beibei” the fish, “Jingjing” the panda, “Yingying” the Tibetan antelope, and “Nini” the swallow. The fifth mascot was “Huanhuan” the Olympic flame. Combining the first syllables of the mascots’ names creates the phrase “Bei Jing Huan Ying Nin”, which means "Welcome to Beijing” in Chinese.
Source : Factsheets, https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Games-of-the-Olympiad.pdf
To find out more, you can consult the resources of the Olympic Studies Centre, https://library.olympics.com/default.aspx?_lg=en-GB
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