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Olympic Games
The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, they were held in the same year. Since then, they have been celebrated two years apart.

The original Olympic Games (Greek: Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες; Olympiakoi Agones) began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and was celebrated until AD 393. Interest in reviving the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poetry "Dialogue of the Dead" in 1833. Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. This was noted in newspapers and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have recently been revived! Here is strange news indeed ... the classical games of antiquity were revived near Athens".

The International Olympic Committee was founded with the initiative of a French nobleman in 1894, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. Participation in the Olympic Games has increased to include athletes from nearly all nations worldwide. With the improvement of satellite communications and global telecasts of the events, the Olympics are consistently gaining supporters. The most recent Summer Olympics were the 2004 Games in Athens and the most recent Winter Olympics were the 2006 Games in Turin. The upcoming games in Beijing are planned to comprise 302 events in 28 sports. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were competed in 84 events in 7 sports.

Source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be celebrated from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony commencing at 08:08:08 pm at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Some events, including football (soccer), sailing, and new 10 km marathon swimming events will be held in other cities of China. With the equestrian events being held in Hong Kong, this marks the second time the same edition of the Olympic Games has been hosted by two National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing, People's Republic of China after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001. The official logo of the games, titled "Dancing Beijing," features a stylized calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city. The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing one color of the Olympic rings. The Olympic slogan, One World, One Dream, calls upon the world to unite in the Olympic spirit. Athletes will compete in 302 events in 28 sports, just one event more than was on the schedule of the Athens games of 2004. Several new NOCs have also been recognized by the IOC.

The Chinese government sees the games as a chance for China to highlight its economic rise and emergence as a world power. Despite the efforts of the Communist Party to tightly manage press coverage of the event, there will likely be issues over the environment, human rights violations, and Tibetan independence. This being so, former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has still boasted that the Beijing games will be "the best in Olympic history."
Source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics

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L'emblème des Jeux Olympiques de Beijing 2008

L'emblème «Beijing en dansant» marque un jalon dans l'histoire des jeux olympiques. Il s'agit d'un chapitre classique dans l'épopée olympique, gravé avec l'esprit de la nation chinoise, écrit à l'aide de la vieille civilisation chinoise et forgé par les vertus des enfants de la nation chinoise. Il incarne la pensée et les sentiments de la nation chinoise. Par le biais de cet emblème, les gens se réuniront et se connaîtront à Beijing, en Chine, sur le trajet orienté vers «Beijing-2008».

«Beijing en dansant», à la forme d'un sceau chinois, constitue aussi une promesse, qui signifie que cette ville chinoise montrera en 2008 au monde entier une image majestieuse et pittoresque de «paix, amitié et progrès» et exécutera un mouvement musical plus chaleureux aux accents exaltants pour l'humanité tout entière.

«Beijing en dansant» présente également au monde une physionomie de la ville de Beijing, belle image qui incarne les caractéristiques humains et les vertus nobles spéciaux de la civilisation chinoise.

«Beijing en dansant» représente aussi les couleurs préférées des Chinois dont surtout la couleur rouge qui, symbole du boheur et de la vitalité, transmet les souhaits de bonheur et les sentiments d'amitié profonds de la Chine envers le monde entier.

«Beijing en dansant» fait encore appel aux héros olympiques, les jeux olympiques étant, comme toute le monde le sait, une scène qui fait des héros, crée des miracles et forge l'honneur.

«Beijing en dansant» constitue de plus la continuation du totem de la nation chinoise qui, tel un dragon avec ses beaux traits symbolique ainsi incarnés par l'emblème, raconte au monde le passé et l'avenir d'une grande civilisation, celle de la nation chinoise.

Enfin, «Beijing en dansant» est encore une invitation chaleureuse, du fait que l'emblème transmet parfaitement le message de la Chine, message qui souligne qu'elle est fin prête à accueillir à bras ouverts les amis des différents pays et régions du monde à cette cérémonie olympique solennelle de «paix, amitié et de progrès» pour l'humanité, message qui veut par ailleurs que tous les amis ici présents puissent tisser ensemble en 2008 un beau rêve de la paix.