Updates to this story: IOC Criticism of Olympic Star Usain Bolt Rings Hollow
IOC Finally Takes Action on Olympic Gymnastics Age Scandal
“We always knew they were under sixteen years old,” a group of Chinese students told me yesterday. “We had no idea that there was an age limit for gymnastics in the Olympics. If there really is, then [...]
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China Still in Denial Over Olympic Gymnastics Age Scandal
Posted by Robert Vance on August 18th, 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 [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympic Games, beijing, Beijing Olympics, Boycott Olympics, China, Olympic Games, Olympic Outfit 
No Comments »Beijing’s Perfect Night
Posted by Robert Vance on August 9th, 2008
8/08/2008 was a lucky day after all for Beijing and the hundreds of millions of Chinese people who had been anticipating Friday night’s festivities for eight years. Bad weather, protests, terrorist attacks, and the general controversy that surrounded the preparations for the Games had threatened to mar Friday night’s opening ceremony. Nevertheless, when the massive [...]
Why the Olympic Games Are Not About China After Tonight
Posted by Robert Vance on August 8th, 2008
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is just a few hours away; Beijing’s sigh of relief will be a sigh heard around the world. I will also be sighing with relief; these perilous months leading up to the Olympics have been exhausting. I am tired of hearing Chinese people proclaim their hatred for those [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008-Olympics, beijing, China, Communism, NBC television, Olympic Games, Watching the Olympics 1 Comment »The IOC Becomes an Official Accomplice to the CCP in China
Posted by Robert Vance on July 31st, 2008
If it was not already, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is now officially an accomplice to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and all of the Chinese government’s attempts to censor free speech and block personal freedoms in China. According to a report from Reuter’s on Wednesday, “some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China [...]
Memories and Television Still Fuel Chinese Hatred For Japan
Posted by Robert Vance on July 29th, 2008
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Sichuan province, I wrote an article entitled Will the Earthquake Bring China and Japan Closer Together? In the post, I suggested that China’s acceptance of Japanese aid in Sichuan might well be a turning point in Sino-Japanese relations, which were already thawing. Since then, it does seem that relations have [...]
Is it Smog or Fog that Threatens the Olympic Games in Beijing?
Posted by Robert Vance on July 28th, 2008
Whatever happened to China’s ability to bring nature under its control? After all, the CCP has been able to harness the Yangtze River with the Three Gorges Dam, build a train route to Lhasa that many said was impossible, and make rain fall from the sky on cue. So what is going on in Beijing? [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: beijing, CCP, China, chinese government, Olympic Games, olympic organising committee, smog problem, yangtze river No Comments »Searching for the Olympic Spirit in China
Posted by Robert Vance on July 15th, 2008
Robert Vance here. With under a month remaining before Beijing basks in the glorious light of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, I am in search of something that has gone missing in China. I have been faithfully searching for it but it continues to elude me. It was here just a few short months ago. I know it was; [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008-Olympics, Carrefour, China, Olympic Games, olympic opening ceremony, olympic spirit, protests, robert vance, Tibet No Comments »Does China Owe an Apology to the World?
Posted by Robert Vance on June 27th, 2008
For months, my friends and students in China have been accusing the world, and especially the United States, of trying to inject politics into the 2008 Olympics Games.Those who have dared to mention to mention the words Tibet’ and ‘Olympics’ in the same sentence are accused of mixing the sacred with the profane. The Olympics Games [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008-Olympics, China, Chinese Politics, dalai lama, Olympic Games, Tibet 7 Comments »
