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Times Online

Team GB coaches may quit in funding dispute

BEIJING (Reuters) - With its $40 billion landscape of twisted steel stadium, luminous Water Cube and imposing arenas arching high into the Beijing sky, the 2008 Olympic Games were as much a statement as a sporting spectacle.

After Glow of Games, What Next for China?

BEIJING — The elaborate closing ceremony that ended the Olympic Games on Sunday also ended nearly a decade in which the ruling Communist Party had made the Games an organizing principle in national life. Almost nothing has superseded the Olympics as a political priority in China.

Reuters

Beijing spectacle marks end of gigantic Games

BEIJING (Reuters) - With its $40 billion landscape of twisted steel stadium, luminous Water Cube and imposing arenas arching high into the Beijing sky, the 2008 Olympic Games were as much a statement as a sporting spectacle.

The Independent

Over to you, Boris

Something forlorn and regrettable happened here last night. The greatest Olympics we have ever seen, and perhaps ever will, quite unavoidably came to an end.
When they did it, it was hard not to feel a shiver of sympathy for Boris Johnson as he was handed maybe the heaviest baton ever passed on in the history of organised sport.

2008 Olympics closing ceremony

While China's 2008 Olympics closing ceremony may have concluded the previous 16 days of events, it didn't do much to ease concerns about the country's approach to human rights.
Although the International Olympic Committee was praising itself for awarding Beijing these Olympics, the U.S. Embassy urged China to free foreign activists jailed for protesting at the games. China, the embassy