The 2008 Olympic were held in china. it was a big event were all around the wold contestence come and compet against outher countrys there stadiam was huge as you can see.EVENTS
the events were really inportant to the contestence they had a certain 1 to do here is a list of them. 2008 Beijing Summer Games Events include archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, judo, mountain biking, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling. Besides, there are a number of track and field events.
PARALIPICS
In addition to the mainstream Olympic Events, Paralympic Games and Special Olympics World Games were also instituted later as exclusive international sporting competitions for the disabled. Paralympic Games are specially organized for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities whereas Special Olympics Events are exclusively meant for sports persons with severe intellectual disabilities. The first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held in 1968 at Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Special Olympics events include Aquatics, Athletics (track and field), badminton, basketball, bocce, bowling and cycling amongst a host of others. THE WINTER EVENTS
The Winter Olympic Events are biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting) bobsled, cross-country skiing, curling, downhill skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, snowboarding and speed skating.
Snowboarding was introduced for the first time at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
The current Summer Games program includes 35 sports and nearly 400 events. The Summer Olympics includes 28 sports with 38 disciplines and the Winter Olympics includes 7 sports with 15 disciplines.
FACTS
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1. The total cost of Beijing Olympics is around 43 billion USD. The cost of building venues amount to around 1.8 billion USD
2. This was the last time that baseball and softball were played as Olympic sports. The two have been scrapped from the program of the 2012 London Olympics.
3. China: 19.8% of population, 10.4% of medals.
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