As they paraded cheerfully into the Bird’s Nest stadium in their brightly coloured cultural costumes, the 56 smiling children were described as coming from China’s 56 ethnic groups. The supposedly ethnic minority children were actually all from the dominant Han group.

Michael Phelps’ fans will have to be content with just watching him in the heats today.

Japan’s breaststroke champion, Kitajima Kosuke will go into the men’s 200m breaststroke final as favorite for the event, having already won gold in the 100m breaststroke. Mike Brown of Canada and Sc

He Kexin apparently aged 3 years in 9 months. Late last year, Nov. 3rd, China’s Xinhua identified He Kexin

Amidst all the other blog postings about fireworks and little girl singers here's another one. This blog attracts few commentaters but those who do contribute often enter comments as long, and as thoughtful, as the original posting.

This is blog worth getting to know.

The Chinese government explained that the fatal disease is caused by the excitement of the Olympics, not infected birds, as was previously reported.

Chinese internet users Photoshop many 2008 Chinese Olympic athletes onto famous movie posters, including Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, and American Michael Phelps.

Chinese Olympic organizers acknowledged Tuesday they were struggling to handle an unforeseen and baffling problem inside Summer Games venues and at the showpiece Olympic Park.

Not enough people.

Charles Happell from Crikey.com.au doesn't like the fake parts of the opening cermoney, bad judging or the PLA.

Do we simple shrug off the incident as a façade of Chinese Communism?

Zhang Xiangxiang of China added another gold to the China’s Weightlifting golden chest by beating other opponents in Men’s 62kg category. He lifted a total of 319kg. Diego Salazar of Colomb