Aside from the murder of an innocent American tourist, what else will the Beijing Olypics be remembered for?

Question

Aside from the murder of an innocent American tourist, what else will the Beijing Olypics be remembered for?

Answer 1

There was a murder of an american tourist in China?

:O

Answer 2

for china winning the olympics by a wide margin!

Answer 3

well, Phelps got 8 gold medals...

Answer 4

The great Chinese fans.

Phelps 8 Gold medals

The great TV coverage of the games.

The end of women's Softball and Mens Baseball in the Olympics.

Answer 5

all the whining, moaning and blatent China bashing,

Answer 6

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umm, lets see............

that guy from Jamaica just smashed like 2 world records, and won by FAR. (sorry, i cant remember his name)

it was right after an enormous earthquake

Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, the most won so far ( i think)

its right before London's. (the only place to host it 3 times)

America won all three medals in the Woman's ...Fencing, i think it was?

America beat Brazil in Men's Volleyball (Brazil was the World Champion and i think, Olympic Champion for like, 2 years straight)

China won almost all the medals in all of the Diving events.

America won the most medals, but China won more gold.....

Jason Lezak beat France in the Men's 4x100 free relay, by .008.

it was held on 8/8/2008. i thoguht tha was pretty cool

its the last year softball and baseball will be held in the Olympics.

theres probably more, but i didnt watch all of the Olympics.

and, personally, i dont know about u, but i thought the opening and closing ceremonies were awesome.

hope i helped. =)

Answer 7

yes of course a lot of great things happened this olympics michael phelps got 8 gold medals shawn johnson got gold usain bolt got gold nastia liukin got gold a lot of wonderful things did happen and it WILL be remembeed

Answer 8

I will remember the fact that until now the U.S.A has used the total of gold medals as a basis for it's Olympic table, but in an Olympics where China dominated the gold medal count, the U.S.A media decided to use the total medals as a way to keep them on top a the table.

By that reasoning a team with 31 bronze medals only, would beat a team with 30 golds...Hmmm???

Propaganda anyone?

Answer 9

What??? There was an Olympic event? Boring.

Answer 10

Michael Phelps's eight gold medals (first time in Olympic history), the USA softball team only winning silver (first time in Olympic history), the Redeem Team, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang pulling out of the Olympics because of an injury, causing Chinese reporters to cry on air.  Also, air quality in and around Beijing and China's 51 gold medals.

Answer 11

americans think they are innocent? well i never

Answer 12

How China changed the age of their gymnasts and got away with it again. (see 2000 olympics)