BEIJING (Reuters) - The main stadium for next year's Beijing Olympic Games, the $400 million "bird's nest," will open to the public for the first time in April to host a test event, a state newspaper ...
BEIJING — The centerpiece of the Beijing Olympics rises 230 feet tall, its lattice of steel beams sometimes vanishing in a thick blanket of smog. Quietly and without fanfare, officials have opened the ...
(Reuters) - The Beijing Olympic Games started on Friday with a dramatic opening ceremony featuring a cast of thousands directed by acclaimed Chinese movie director Zhang Yimou. The performance, which ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Throughout more than 120 years of Olympic history, no city has hosted both the winter and summer games. Now, Beijing will be the first do it — and in the span of just 14 years ...
We all love watching cities build state-of-the-art competition venues for the Olympics. Not only are they fresh and new, but seeing how planners manage to incorporate them into the city's skyline is ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics are underway in Paris. Sometimes cities successfully repurpose parts of their Olympic set-ups, like in Montreal. But oftentimes, these giant investments are torn down or ...
Catch up on Olympic ski jumping since the 2022 Beijing Olympics — new events, equipment changes, returning champions, breakout talents and the biggest storylines shaping the men’s and women’s ...
Since Beijing 2022, Olympic skeleton has seen a clear power shift. Breakout stars like Great Britain's Matt Weston, Canada's Hallie Clarke, and the United States' Mystique Ro have surged to the top, ...
Benjamin Forgey hopes the new Washington Nationals ballpark will embrace a bold design [Style, July 23], but if the proposed Beijing Olympic stadium pictured with his article is what he has in mind, ...
The United States will face China and Canada will play Germany in their opening preliminary round games of the men's ice hockey competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympics at 8:10 a.m. ET on Feb. 10, the ...