Lee Chong Wei loses to Lin Dan

Lee Chong Wei, the Malaysian badminton star who defeated Lin Dan on many occasions; as recent as the 2008 Thomas Cup, has unfortunately lost to his long time rival during 2008 Beijing Olympic finals.

Even with Lee's quick reflexes, Lin Dan's coordinated and aggresive attacks just couldn't be matched, eventually leading to an easy victory.

Hey, with all those cheering crowd around, it's always punishing.

Beijing olympics crowd were trained to cheer

First we had computer generated fireworks, then lip-syncing performance - But crowds trained to cheer?!

Around 800,000 trained Chinese students shown up as part of the cheering crowd to keep up the Olympics' atmosphere.

The reward? each of them received a low cost entrance ticket made in china.

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2008 Olympics is here

As the last torchbearer lit the temple's cauldron in Beijing, 2008 Summer Olympic Games officially opens.

The relay, themed "Journey of Harmony" traveled all the way from Greece with an outstanding number of 20 thousand torchbearers as they journeyed across continents.

This also marks an attitude change in China, who now promises open media access during the games; but heck, just in case, you might wanna check out these 'freedom sticks' if you're in Beijing!