The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...

USA - 2008: Lee Hulteng color illustration of U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps. (Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Tribune News Service via Getty I Of Michael Phelps’ eight gold medals at the 2008 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russia have been stripped of the 4x400m women's relay silver medal from the Beijing Olympics after Anastasia Kapachinskaya tested positive for a steroid in a re-test of her ...

Usain Bolt estimated he ate 1,000 McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets during the Beijing Olympics -- or 100 per day over 10 days at the Athletes’ Village. “Honestly, I ate nothing else in all my time out in ...

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If the thousands of free condoms handed out to Olympic athletes this year are any indication, even the sourest of Olympic experiences are expected to end with a smile. Maybe even a smoke. After all, ...

BEIJING - Tyson Gay stuck his left hand behind him, waiting to feel the red baton's cool metal make contact. Still waiting, Gay looked ahead and began to take off. Now accelerating, he glanced back at ...

Nastia Liukin is a retired Russian-American artistic gymnast. She is best known for her historic performance at the Beijing Olympics 2008. Here, she won 5 medals, including a gold in the women’s ...

On Monday, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos linked back to a 2007 article in the magazine by Jianying Zha. This described her brother’s nine-year detention for subversion and, in Osnos’ words, “remains the ...

Monmouth College chef Kim Fornero looks back on cooking for broadcasters and journalists at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing ...