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"One world One Dream," Olympics slogan calls the world to unite in the Olympics spirit.
Olympic games are the most prestigious, and multi-sports event held in every four year. It's thrill and excitement starts building year before it actually starts. The Summer Olympics will commence on August 8th 2008 and end on August 24th 2008. The opening ceremony will be held in Beijing National Stadium, which can accommodate 91,000 spectators and begins at 08:08: 08 P.M. as 8 is lucky number in Chinese culture. After an exhaustive ballot of International Olympic Committee, Beijing was awarded to host prestigious Olympics games, beating the likable candidates like ‘Toronto', ‘Paris', ‘Istanbul' and ‘Osaka'. Athletes from round the world will compete in 302 games event in 28 games.

Olympics Games venues

2008 Beijing Olympics is going to be a magnificent and host country is all geared up. To make this event a huge success "The Government of China" has constructed 31 venues in Beijing and 5 more venues are outside Beijing in Qingdao, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Qinhuangdao. Its largest architectural pieces will be the "Beijing National Stadium" earmarked for Football and Atheletics, "Beijing National Indoor Stadium" with the accomodating capacity of 19,000 spectators is for Artistic Gymnastics, Trampolines and Handball; "Beijing National Aquatics Centre" is for Swimming, Water Polo and Diving; "Olympic Green Convention Centre"; "Olympic Green", and "Beijing Wukesong Culture and Sports Center" including 59 training centres for the atheletes.
Also in the list are, "Beijing Shooting Range Hall", "Wukesong Indoor Stadium", "Laoshan Velodrome", "Shunyi Olympic Rowing- Canoing Park", "China Agricultural University Gymnasium", "Peking University Gymnasium", "Beijing Science and Technological University Gymnasium" and "Beijing University of Technological Gymnasium".

2008 Olympics sports

Total 302 gaming events will be played in 2008 Summer Olympics Games in Beijing, out of which 165 men's events, 127 women's events and 10 mixed events will take place. This year total nine new events will be added. Some of the games to be played in Beijing Olympics are Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Diving, Soccer, Gymnastics, Handball, Judo, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball, Weightlifting, Wrestling and lots more.

Torch Relay


With the theme of "Journey of Harmony," Olympic torch relay will began on the historic grounds of Olympia, the birthplace of Olympism, where the Ancient Olympic Games took place and then torch will travel through every continent except Antarctica.

Beijing Tour

With Olympics on the cards, Beijing expects millions of spectators, coming from round the globe. Beside games, Beijing has abounding tourist attractions to offer. ‘Temple of Heaven', ‘Tanzhe Temple', ‘Temple of Azure Clouds', ‘Yunju Temple', ‘Five Pagoda Temple', ‘Temple of The Reclining Buddha' is some of its celebrated temples. Beautiful and manicured parks like ‘Fragrant Hills Park', ‘Xiangshan Park', ‘Beihai Park' and ‘Zhongshan Park' are the star attractions. Discos and nightclubs are perfect chill out zones and add to its raucous nightlife. With several deluxe hotels and palatial resorts: accommodation is not an issue. Shop to your heart content in posh shopping complexes and savor the taste of delectable cuisines.

Over 7 million tickets will be sold for various sporting events, so grab your ticket now and take off for an unforgettable experience, that awaits you in Beijing.

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