Beijing Olympics 2008 begins today......

Hi Readers ! The day of Olympics 2008 has finally come. It will be a memorable day both philatelically and for sports too as today is 8.8.8. You can post letters to your friends today for special date cancellation. The Olympics Opening ceremony will take place at the special time 8:8:8 means sharp 8 o'clock 8 minutes 8 seconds. In today's post some beautiful issues on Olympics for you. The charm of Olympics is irresitible. Ask any one how it feels to soak in that electrifying ambience, to compete against the world renowned personalities and they'll tell you, it's once-in-a-lifetime experience.The post is dedicated to this biggest and most magnificent sports event. Our thanks to Mr. Shrikant Parikh for his contribution to this post. Let's see the event where the sportsmen are going to give their best to make impossible possible. This is all for the Day.... Till next Post....Have a very nice Time !.......

Chinese Proverb : Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Qingdo Olympic Sailing Centre

It is the venue for the sailing events, located on the coast of Fushan Bay in the district of Quingdo. Lying against mountain and facing the sea. It boasts of a beautiful environment. It covers an area of 45 hectares.

National Aquatics Center

It is the venue for the swimming, diving and Water Ballet events. it is located to the opposite of the Bird's Nest ( National Stadium), resembling a massive block of blue ice. It is also dubbed as Water Cube giving an appearance of a novel arhitectural design.

Stamps issued by Russia and Argentina

History recorded the name of the Asian continent into its books twice before Beijing started celebrating their victory in the race for the organization of the 29th Olympic Games. At the beginning of this range Tokyo was the first to play host to thousands and thousands of world sportsmen in the year 1964. Twenty years later, to be more precise in 1988, the South Korean Seoul was the host of this greatest world sports event. Now this great honour has been granted to Beijing and the biggest Asian country China which is a logical development of sports promotion across the world.

The Chinese have definitely made a huge step forward in terms of sports, too. Already known as a major power in sports, the moment when the outcome of the voting became known, probably even earlier, they started upon their mission of creating Olympic winners. The sportsmen who have almost proverbially greatest success in the Olympics are the sportsmen coming from the United States of America, but recently they have got a strong runner up candidate – the Chinese. Taking into consideration that the Chinese sportsmen appear in home venues this time, we would not be surprised if they were placed by their achieved successful results before the USA sportsmen. Regarding the number of competitors, flanking the Americans and the Chinese there are the Russians striding along and their harvest of medals is probably going to be just slightly weaker. What definitely has to be mentioned here is that Russia, at least for the present moment, can boast of two most successful Olympic contenders of all times. The woman athlete Larissa Latynina participated in three Olympic Games (1956, 1960 and 1964) and won eighteen medals (nine gold, five silver and four bronze medals). In the relatively long history of the Olympics (from the year 1896 when the first modern Olympic Games in Athens took place), according to the number of medals won is the athlete following immediately behind Latynina’s: her fellow-countryman Nikolai Andrianov with fifteen medals to his credit (seven gold, five silver and three bronze). Other sports powers are also Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Ukraine, Japan and Spain – the names of their athletes will certainly be listed in the upper part of the scale. When it goes for smaller countries, the countries that always achieve great success in the Olympic competitions are Kenya (athletics) or Hungary (swimming, water polo). Let's see all the great players proving themselves to be best in the world.