2008 Beijing: Springboard Michael Phelps sets the ‘Water Cube’ alight
France's Laure Manaudou swims in a women's 400-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Centre at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. France...
Tens of thousands of people perform tai chi to mark the one year anniversary of the opening of the Beijing Olympics in front of China's National Stadium, also known as the Bird's N...
A Chinese girl holding a small Chinese national flag stands near the Bird's Nest National Stadium a day before the first anniversary for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
August
Lin Miaoke at the Olympics opening ceremony: Only the pretty face was
hers. The heavenly voice belonged to another tot, Yang Peiyi, hidden from view
bec...
Aug 24, 2008
Who's that girl? The little girl with her back to the camera. It turns out
that her name is Tayyiba Dudhwala, age 10. She won the heart of the world ...
Aug 24, 2008
It was tough to choose just picture from the closing ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympics in
Beijing. In the end, we may well have used just any ...
France's Fabrice Jannet, left, and Korea's Jinsun Jung compete at the quarterfinals of the men's fencing individual epee at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Sunday August 10...
Saturday August 2, 2008
Fireworks light up the National Stadium also known as the "Bird's Nest" during the dress rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olym...
Friday July 25, 2008
Indian contingent to the Beijing Olympic Games pose for a photograph during a send-off function, in New Delhi,
India. 57 Indian athletes will part...
In this photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, members of China's armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, east China, ...
A Chinese swimmer removes blue green algae from coastal waters in Qingdao, eastern China. A little over a month before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games, the venue for the sailin...
Exiled Tibetans enact a street play depicting the alleged torture of Tibetans by the Chinese government, in Dharamsala. Hundreds of Tibetans took to the streets to oppose the Beiji...
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Olympic torch carrier Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan, left, and local village head Pu Huifang, right, wave to the crowds as they light the dish at ...
Monday April 7, 2008
Stephane Diagana, the 400-meter world champion in 1997 who is now president of France's national athletics league, carries the Olympic torch at the...
Monday March 31, 2008
While India bent backwards to China's bullying over Tibet and the Dalai Lama
(among other things, China called him a liar and "the devil&quo...
Wednesday February 13, 2008
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, third from left, looks at a model of
Beijing's National Stadium with Chinese film maker Zhang Yimou...
Chinese dissident Wang Youcai poses next to a person wearing a T-shirt showing the Olympic rings made with handcuffs to protest against the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, after a p...
