GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's hard to believe it has been four years since the last Olympic Games. It seems like only yesterday we were plonked on the couch, feet up, and ...

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 ...

Beijing 2008 also includes table tennis, judo, weightlifting, skeet shooting, and canoeing. Though the game deserves a medal for diversity, a lot of these contests are hobbled by confounding control ...

After years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits. In an elaborate, ...

A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on November 11, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony. The long-anticipated mascots, which embody the ...

In its most ideal form, the Olympic Games are a worldwide celebration of athletics and culture; a joining of nations to compete rigorously but fairly, and a showcase of global friendships. But in ...

Billed as the most expensive games to date, this summer's Beijing Olympics will likely run up a bill of significantly over $20 billion. Some may question whether this will be too much—that it will ...

Could it really be over so quickly? Ever since the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the Summer Games in 2001, China had lavished $44 billion on transforming the capital into a city ...

Here in Beijing, Friday the 13th turned out to be China's lucky day. The government took the gamble of staging a celebratory concert in front of the city's millennium monument. And as Juan Antonio ...

(CBS News) An interesting new study of the 2008 Beijing Olympics lends new evidence to the link between air pollution and heart health. The study found that the Chinese government's cleanup efforts to ...

Who knew qualifying for the Olympics could be so difficult? Instead of a worldwide competition crafted around ideas that fit in with the modern gaming landscape, this is just an archaic compilation of ...