The Beijing Olympics was a unique event in many senses, and China has been one of time’s most debated Olympic hosts. New article examines the great global impact of the Beijing Olympiad.

Beijing native Kang Kang, a journalist for Chinese national TV-station CCTV, told Play the Game at the IOC session in Copenhagen how he had experienced the city develop.

No mention of issues with press restrictions as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were officially evaluated by both the BOCOG and by the IOC evaluation commission for the Beijing Olympics.

Mega-events as drivers of social change: Experts on China went head-to-head in trying to assess the legacy and impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

China’s Olympic Games performance took the world by storm, but it gets mixed reviews in a report issued today on official treatment of overseas journalists and media covering the Games.

German Willi Lemke has been appointed as the new United Nations special adviser on sport. Lemke’s first act as adviser will be to visit Tibet, where violent confrontation between proponents and opponents of Tibetan autonomy has sparked fierce debate over a boycott of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

With less than six months to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese government is failing in its pledge to allow free access to foreign journalists.

China is yet to live up to its Olympic pledge of free media access. Findings from a survey by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China show that government interference is still commonplace for overseas journalists, while Reporters Without Borders, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists and other rights groups, all highlight the dangerous position of domestic journalists.