Science news articles about '2008 olympic games'

Particulate air pollution during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing constantly exceeded levels ... 81 percent of the time during the Beijing Olympics. They reached unacceptable levels 100 percent of the ...

Particulate air pollution during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing constantly exceeded levels considered excessive by the World Health Organization, was far worse than other ...

As 600,000 visitors and athletes gear up to travel to China for the 2008 Olympic Games, travelers should be most concerned about respiratory illnesses and dog bites, according to report by an Emory ...

... summer Olympics in Beijing has elicited a rallying cry for human rights among high-profile ... Attention may shift away from China after the 2008 Olympic Games conclude, yet the struggles between economic ...

... in the West. As the world's greatest athletes prepare to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, there is increasing concern from some athletes about the growing pollution caused by smoke ...

Between the 1932 and 2008 Olympic Games, world record times of the men's 100m sprint improved by 0.6 seconds due to improved training techniques and technological advances. ...

While watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports commentator Rowdy Gaines quipped that swimmers keep getting bigger, ...

... at Princeton. Wysocki is a co-leader of a team that developed the system and conducted preliminary tests during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The team included Rice researchers Frank ...

... barred from the 400-meter dash at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and other able-body races. ... under Kram in 2007. After Pistorius was barred from the Olympic Games in January of last year, the U. ...