As the Beijing Olympics gets into the middle stages, two countries have left others way behind as far as the medals goes- USA and China. It could be said that the two seem to be following Henry Ford’s assembly line production when it comes to winning medals. China has won 24 gold medals while US has won 14 gold although in the total US has 44 medals to its tally when compared to China which has 38.
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Abhinav Bindra
As far as the updates go, the Indian contingent till now has at least some reasons to cheer in the Abhinav Bindra who has struck the lone Gold in 10m air rifle event. The medal hopes for the Indian contingent stays alive with Akhil Kumar and Jitendra Kumar in boxing. Akhil Kumar advanced to the quarter finals beating World Champion from Russia. The tennis duo of Paes and Bhupathi have crashed out of Olympics when they were comprehensively beaten by the Swiss duo of Roger Federer and his partner.
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Olympics 2008 got underway at Beijing as the city welcomed the world to the29th Olympic Games at Bird’s Nest Stadium on August 8 with an Opening Ceremony that began at 8:00 p.m
Here are a few things about this years Beijing Olympics
Bird’s Nest is Beijing’s national stadium which took four years to build. Beijing Olympics would be held from August 8-24. The slogan for the games is “One World One Dream”. The official logo for the games is titled “Dancing Beijing”. It is estimated that there are around 1,00,000 volunteers for the games which is the highest ever compared to the past.
India at Beijing Olympics 2008
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