GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's hard to believe it has been four years since the last Olympic Games. It seems like only yesterday we were plonked on the couch, feet up, and ...

After years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits. In an elaborate, ...

Beijing 2008 also includes table tennis, judo, weightlifting, skeet shooting, and canoeing. Though the game deserves a medal for diversity, a lot of these contests are hobbled by confounding control ...

The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...

A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on November 11, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony. The long-anticipated mascots, which embody the ...

In its most ideal form, the Olympic Games are a worldwide celebration of athletics and culture; a joining of nations to compete rigorously but fairly, and a showcase of global friendships. But in ...

(CBS News) An interesting new study of the 2008 Beijing Olympics lends new evidence to the link between air pollution and heart health. The study found that the Chinese government's cleanup efforts to ...

Here in Beijing, Friday the 13th turned out to be China's lucky day. The government took the gamble of staging a celebratory concert in front of the city's millennium monument. And as Juan Antonio ...

Who knew qualifying for the Olympics could be so difficult? Instead of a worldwide competition crafted around ideas that fit in with the modern gaming landscape, this is just an archaic compilation of ...

When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Games could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same.Such talk is all but ...