There was simply no splash. At least, that is how Chen Ruolin’s gold medal winning plunge just a few minutes ago in the Women’s Olympic 10 Meter Dive appeared to my untrained eye. I was cheering for Canada; I will admit it. I was hoping that Emilie Heymans could carry her superb performance through to the very end. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Beijing Olympics’
Chen Ruolin Wins Olympic Diving Gold Tonight in Amazing Fashion
Posted by Robert Vance on August 21st, 2008
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Dominate the Weekly China Roundup
Posted by Robert Vance on August 10th, 2008
The Weekly China Roundup from TeachAbroadChina.com
Dazzling The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was a spectacular event that left Chinese and foreigners with mouths agape. You can read more about the official start of the 2008 Olympic Games here…in other Olympic news, an American tourist was killed this morning in Beijing, apparently the victim of [...]
Posted in The Vance Report 
Tags: 2008 Olympic Games, beijing, Beijing Olympics, Boycott Olympics, China, Olympic Games, Olympic Outfit 
No Comments »Will Kids be Banned from the Olympic Games?
Posted by Robert Vance on May 8th, 2008
Beijing authorities have been working hard to rid the 2008 Olympic host city of beggars, stray cats, bad English signs, polluted air, rundown hotels, and foreign students who are seen as a political threat to the Games. Now that hand-foot-mouth disease has once again reared its ugly head in China and poses yet another threat to China’s precious Olympic Games, should not the authorities move [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008 Games, Beijing Olympics, CCP, China Disease, Communism, EV71, Hand Foot Mouth Disease No Comments »
