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Beijing 2008
Beijing 2008 Games of the XXIX Olympiad
The capital of the Middle Kingdom hosted the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. After Tokyo 1964, Sapporo 1972, Seoul 1988 and Nagano 1998, for the fifth time the Games went to Asia, the most populated continent in the world. The city of Beijing alone has almost 18 million inhabitants. Before the event, the Olympic Games attracted all the dissent and questions about China; once over, they were the Games of all the superlatives.

The Games began with the amazing Opening Ceremony in the symbolic National Stadium, nicknamed the “Bird’s Nest”, which delighted almost 90,000 spectators, as well as several hundreds of millions of people worldwide watching on TV.

In Beijing, more than 40 world records and over 130 Olympic records were broken, illustrated in particular by the phenomenal US swimmer, Michael Phelps, and the incredible Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt; but also the astounding South African, Natalie du