Topic: Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2009-08-05 05:23:14
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has decided to mark the anniversary of the opening ceremony of last year's Beijing Olympics by making August 8 an annual National Fitness Day, sports minister Liu Peng said. Getting more of China's 1.3 billion people involved in sport was one of the legacy aims of the Olympics, the first anniversary of which will ...
Reuters US Online Report Sports News | 2009-06-19 05:54:35
BEIJING (Reuters) - China made an operating profit of over 1 billion yuan ($146 million) from the 2008 Summer Olympics, the National Audit Office said Friday. Most Olympic host cities make money from running the Games -- Athens in 2004 reported an initial operating profit of $155 million -- but the bills for building stadiums and other infrastructure can take many years to ...
ZUMA Press Inc | 2009-01-02 21:13:24
Dec 30, 2008 - Shanghai, China - Construction started Tuesday on the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, which will hold the 14th World Swimming Championships in 2011. The 2-billion-yuan (USD 293 million) center along the southern stretch of the Huangpu River is expected ...
