2008
6
Dec
Beijing has started selling souvenir sets of left-over grass and steel from its famed Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium for 2,900 yuan (420 dollars) each, Chinese media reported Thursday.
The packs include grass cut on the night of the Games’ closing ceremony, preserved in a clear box, and model Olympic torches made of steel that was [...]
2008
29
Aug
Is He Kexin 16 or 14? Doctors and forensics experts say bone growth could reveal how old the Olympic medalists really are.
How do you tell the age of a Chinese gymnast?
Don’t bother with those government-issued passports or birth certificates.
Go for the X-rays.
For all the global hand-wringing over how international gymnastics officials will ever figure [...]
2008
15
Aug
When I wrote the post yesterday on the fake minority children used at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, I said there has to be at least one more controversy to come. I didn’t have to wait for long.
A newspaper from Norway reports that the 2008 Kungfu performers at the opening ceremony, spent [...]