beijing olympics

www.chinasportsreview.com — Oh, and that could be more, according to Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of BOCOG. Jiang, a newly appointed deputy director of the Committee of Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports of CPPCC, the country’s political advisory body, told press on May 4 that the Beijing Games made a profit of at least $16 million USD.

ap.google.com — China kicked off its National Day celebrations Monday by highlighting its hosting of the Beijing Olympics and the country's first spacewalk, two hard-won successes in a tumultuous year marked by natural disasters, ethnic unrest and another food safety scandal.

esinophile.wordpress.com — Windows only: PPstream is a peer-to-peer (P2P, or if you must, PP) video client that allows for live streaming and sharing of television and movies from China. Catch favorites such as CCTV (中国中央电视台) channels 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 17, movies of questionable legality and plenty of Olympics. The PP streams offer a golden opportunity to soak up a deluge of TV from China.

cnreviews.com — Bookmark this page and you can watch the Olympic Games without a TV. Especially useful for catching the events that get little to no airtime — equestrian dressage, anyone?

www.reuters.com — Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday.

China had committed to providing media with the same freedom to report on the Games as they enjoyed at previous Olympics, but journalists have this week complained of finding access to sites deemed sensitive to its communist leadership blocked.