The head of the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee today denied that China had ever made any undertakings about providing greater freedom of speech …
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Category: Beijing 2008
Journalists get shake down from police and hotels
Following the murder of an American tourist, Todd Bachman, while visiting the Drum Tower monument in the city centre on Saturday, body searching is in…
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Murrays bow out of Beijing in all-too-quick time
In all the analysis of Michael Phelps’s on-going achievement as “the Greatest Olympic athlete of all-timeâ€, with his overall tally …
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Ex-pat businessman offers help to scam victims
An ex-patriot British businessman based in Beijing, touched by the plight of British Olympic gold medal-winner Rebecca Adlington’s parents who l…
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Pooley proves she is not a lightweight in medal stakes
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Wednesday: Cyclist Emma Pooley‘s silver medal in the women’s individual time trial only went to…
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Chinese army in security clampdown at Olympics
Security agents on Sunday reportedly detained a Christian activist on his way to a church service attended by US President George W Bush…
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Lonsbrough is quick off the mark on the gold run
Perhaps the story of these Games is Michael Phelps’s pursuit of eight gold medals in the swimming. Phelps is up to three golds after this morni…
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Murray doubles up to prolong Olympic experience
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Andy Murray’s debut day at the Olympic Games finished on a better note just before midnight when he and his br…
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Adlington makes swim history by her fingertips
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Monday: Olympic gold medals for members of the British team are becoming somewhat like London buses. Swimme…
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Golden Cooke’s tour of Beijing kickstarts Team GB
Cooke would have done well to match American swimmer Michael Phelps in terms of her supporters out on the road race course: waving the star spangled b…
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