ceremony at the iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium, watched by an estimated one billion people worldwide, and it certainly wasn't the only unprecedented spectacle on display during these spectacular Games.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's hard to believe it has been four years since the last Olympic Games. It seems like only yesterday we were plonked on the couch, feet up, and ...

For the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing advocated the idea of "One World, One Dream." However, the dream of the Chinese government is not the dream of everyone. In a vast social system long known for its ...

The Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games was the beginning of an event that raised the standard of Paralympic Sport. The ceremony itself was a poetic expression by the Chinese of ...

"Dream Weavers -- Beijing 2008" is a surprisingly engaging and objective look at the whole preparation for the city's Olympics hoopla. China’s official foreign-language film Oscar submission (and a ...

BEIJING, China -- Tennis returned to prominence at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which featured the most competitive field since it was reintroduced as an Olympic sport in 1988. Players often skipped the ...

Beijing’s Water Cube has been drained. The glowing box-shaped building designed for the swimming competitions in the 2008 Summer Olympics was one of the blockbuster pieces of architecture unveiled ...

A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on November 11, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony. The long-anticipated mascots, which embody the ...

(CBS News) An interesting new study of the 2008 Beijing Olympics lends new evidence to the link between air pollution and heart health. The study found that the Chinese government's cleanup efforts to ...

Outside of Mario's track jaunt on the Wii and DS, it's been a long (long) time since we've seen a good, or even decent, Olympics or track and field game hit a console, but Eurocom and SEGA have earned ...