Top things we should know about Beijing Olympics
It looks like much of the gold that was brought to China for this year’s Olympics will remain there after the games’ end. Michael Phelps’ legendary 8 gold medals for the US team helped the Americans bring up their count but not nearly enough to keep them in the top spot for winning gold since the fall of the Soviet empire. Even if you discount a few from China for biased judging, they still won this year’s Lycra War. This 29th Olympiad became China’s great coming out party. Everyone was invited and entertained while these enthusiastic hosts met their ambitious goals for the August event.
Ten Lessons from China’s Olympics Preparations
1. Plan
Plan well and start planning far enough in advance to achieve your goals
2. Slogans for communicating the strategy
Use such slogans if you have a need to communicate ideas to large numbers of people.
3. Public buy-in
you should make sure that you have whatever buy-in you need for your great undertakings.
4. Resources
Put up the required resources for your project, plus support and reward your key players well is the message here.
5. Know yourself and the competitive landscape
the leadership understood its own strengths and weaknesses well enough to know that it was an achievable goal. It also knew the strengths and weaknesses of the competition.
6. Bring in the best
The country brought in about 50 top coaches from a dozen countries to give their team the edge needed to make it over the top.
7. Great propaganda
deploy effective propaganda to support your initiatives.
8. Sufficiently developed infrastructure
ensure you have sufficient infrastructure in place that you won’t find yourself in an uncomfortable place due to lack of suitable facilities for whatever you are trying to accomplish.
9. Strong motive
Whether your primary motive is showing off or something else, make sure it is a strong one that is clearly aligned with your interests.
10. Selection, screening and training process
Have a similarly reliable process for achieving your goals.
via lifehack.org
Top 10 Sexy female players Of Beijing Olympic Games 2008
08. Volleyball Player "LoganTom" from USA
07. Dive "Jinjin GUO" from China
06. Swim "AmandaBeard" from USA
05.,04. Synchronized Swimming "Twin sisters wenwen Jiang and qinqin Jiang" from China
03. Volleyball "PiccininiFrancesca" from Italy
02. Tennis "Maria Sharapova" from Russia
01. Softball "JennieFinch" from USA
36 things to know about the Beijing Olympics
1) China won the most gold medals at the Beijing Games with 51.
2) It's the first time since 1936 that a country other than the United States or the Soviet Union has led the medal count.
3) China won more golds in Beijing (51) than they did total medals in Atlanta (50).
4) 'Project 119' was a Chinese initiative designed toward winning golds in the medal-rich sports of swimming, track, rowing, kayaking and sailing. Reports are already crediting Project 119 with China's dominance in the gold medal count, but Chinese athletes won just four golds in those sports.
5) The United States won the same amount of golds (36) that they did in Athens, continuing a remarkable consistency that the nation has exhibited over the past half-century.
6) The overall medal count was won by the United States for the fourth consecutive Olympics. The U.S. earned 110 medals, compared to China's 100.
7) Per capita, China won one gold medal for every 25 million people in the country. The United States' per capita rate was one gold for every 8.5 million.
8) Greece won 16 medals as the host country in 2004. Four years later, the founders of the Olympics managed just four -- their lowest total since 1992.
9) African countries won a total of 40 medals, the highest total in history for the continent.
10) Six countries won their first ever Olympic medals: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Mauritius, Sudan, Tajikistan and Togo.
full list via mykiru.blogspot