The Unofficial 2008 Beijing Olympics Blog

Leszek Blanik of Poland scored 16.537 to win the gold medal in the Men’s Vault. Thomas Bouhail of France won the silver medal with the same score, but was placed second due to inferior execution.

The bronze medal went to Anton Golotsutskov of Russia who scored 16.475.

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Leryn Franco
Javelin Throw

In 2006 she was the runner-up in the Miss Paraguay competition and also competed in the Miss Bikini Universe pageant the same year

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1900 - Velodrome Jacques-Anquetil

Main Sports Stadium

Velodrome Jacques-Anquetil

Completion date :1894

Capacity : 20,000 seats

2008 After Use: Still used for the Tour de France

1904 : Francis Field

Main Sports Stadium : Francis Field

Completion date:  1902

Architect : David Rowland Francis

Capacity : 19.000 seats (after Games 4.000)

2008 After Use : Still used for sports events.

The stadium has been upgraded to include many of the characteristics of modern stadiums.

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There are primarily 2 Popular ways to Rank Countries’ performance at Olympics :  -

1) Ranking of Countries by Number Of Gold Medals

2) Ranking of Countries By Total Number Of Medals

We Propose A Different Matrix To Rank the Countries which reflects actual perfomance without being either biased to Gold Medals or total Number of medals won. We propose

3) Ranking of Countries by Weighted Average Score ( Fair Matrix )

Our Proposed Score and Ranking according to Fair Matrix is : -

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Yup, it takes some extreme dedication and love for the Olympics (and well a loose canon for a brain) to tattoo the event all over your face and limbs. I mean the dude’s got the Fuwa tattooed on his neck, how badass is that? His face expression doesn’t show too much enthusiasm though. Here’s a man who knows when to stop drinking now.

Photo credit: NY Times.

It would be a bit trivial and respectful to mention, then again talk, about an issue like the Beijing Olympics torch relay, after China’s been left devastated by a terrible 7.8 earthquake in Sichuan. The current death toll is at around 12.000, with hundreads of thousands left homeless; the statistics are sure to increase daily over the course of the following weeks.

Recently, the New York Times (via CDT) describes how many people in China have been incensed by jubilant celebrations of the Olympics Torch relay in Fujian Province. This post has subsequently been updated with news that “Chinese officials announced that the relay will be scaled back while remaining on schedule, a nod to the thousands of victims of the earthquake,” also mentioning that donation boxes will also be set up at future stops of the torch.

“For those who are looking to contribute to current aid efforts underway, you can now donate money to the Red Cross Society of China which has formed a disaster relief working group to be dispatched to the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County in Sichuan.”

For those of you who’d wish to help out the poor people of Sichuan, you can find the necessary information for doing so bellow.

Account name: Red Cross Society of China
开户单位：中国红十字会总会

For those who want to donate in RMB: you can send money to the RMB account at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China branch below:
人民币开户行: 中国工商银行 北京分行东四南支行
人民币账号: 0200001009014413252

For those who want to donate in foreign currency, you can send money to the foreign currency account at the CITIC Bank branch below:
外币开户行：中信银行酒仙桥支行
外币账号: 7112111482600000209

Hotline: (8610) 65139999
Online donations: Red Cross Society of China website: www.redcross.org.cn
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