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Listed below are comments made by Penglai between Wednesday, 27th August 2008 and Sunday, 31st August 2008.

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Taekwondo needs to move with the times 01:03am on 31 Aug 2008 -------------------------------
73. At 11:08pm on 30 Aug 2008, jaffablog wrote:
I think the Beijing Olympics will be remembered primarily for the wonderful scenes of the opening and closing ceremonies and the appalling decisions in various sporting disciplines.
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I think the Beijing Olympics will be remembered primarily for the wonderful scenes of the opening and closing ceremonies and the great achievements of Phelps and Bolt.
Proud of Daley's display 12:10pm on 29 Aug 2008 --------------------------
21. At 01:07am on 24 Aug 2008, williedahomer wrote:
And it is double standards that a 14 year old can compete in one tough Olympic Sport such as diving and not another such as Gymnastics.
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A valid point.

Someone else still argues that different sports are different. I just want to point out the fact that for gymnastics, the age limit for world championship is 14, while for Olympics 16.

Any people who still think it is fair and necessary to have an age limit of 16 for Olympic gymnastics, please give me a reason.
Getting acclimatised and ready 8:07pm on 27 Aug 2008 Good luck to you.
World view of Beijing 5:22pm on 27 Aug 2008 -----------------------
4. At 9:08pm on 24 Aug 2008, kingslandroar wrote:
Any chance of a medal table withouth the Chinese 'medals' in the 'judging' events? Might give a more realistic impression of the host countries true performance.
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Here are some data that may be of some help to you in this regard. (Gold medals only)

Beijing 2008
1. China 51
2. USA 36
3. Russia 23

Athens 2004
1. USA 36
2. China 32
3. Russia 27

Sydney 2000
1. USA 36
2. Russia 32
3. China 28

Atlanta 1996
1. USA 44
2. Russia 26
3. Germany 20
4. China 16

From the data, we can see that USA is quite steady with the number of gold medals at 36, except for 1996 when they hosted the Olympics.

China is steady on the rise, 16 - 28 - 32 - 51.

Even if this Olympics was staged somewhere else out of China, China would most likely perform better than last time at Athens (32 Golds).
Goodnight Beijing 01:03am on 27 Aug 2008 ----------------------
englishinhongkong wrote:
perhaps they should leave and live in China and see if they prefer it?
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As per Statistics 2003, there were 230,000 foreigners living in China, a small number compared to the number of foreigners visiting China that year (22,000,000).
Goodnight Beijing 00:46am on 27 Aug 2008 I would like to say something about this comment:
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velobella wrote:
The Chinese seem to have put together a good show, but then, having spent ?20bn plus, they had no excuse not to. Shame they couldn't have spent some of that on their own people, half of whom don't even have clean drinking water.
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A total of 20bn have been spent in Beijing for this Olympic Games. Out of this amount, about 20% has been used for sports facilities, and 80% has been spent on underground transportation facilities, ground transportations (including double-deck buses), new airport terminals, environment, etc.

And the Water Cube is financed totally by oversea Chinese at a sum of about 100 m pounds.

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