the star athletes in Beijing Olympics were 1 Michael Phelps of the United States gestures after his team winning the men's 4x100m medley relay final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 2 Elena Isinbaeva of Russia celebrates after the women's pole vault final at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, during Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 3 Lang Ping, coach of the women's volleyball team of the United States, talks to her team members during the Women's Quarterfinals match US vs Italy of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games volleyball event in Beijing 4 Maria Valentina Vezzali of Italy jubilates during Women's Team Foil Bronze Medal Match against Hungary of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 5 Rafael Nadal of Spain holds the national flag of Spain at the awarding ceremony of the men's singles gold medal match of Beijing Olympic Games tennis event against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in Beijing, China, Aug. 17, 2008.
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The National Stadium
The "Birds Nest", because of it's resemblance to one.
About 15 million people20 millionBeijing's population is about 17 million people.
Lebron James was fairly poor growing up.
The northeast corner of Tiananmen, Dongcheng, is located at 39.9088° north latitude 116.3982° east longitude.
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In a world where athletes are given star treatment, the underdogs decide to change their view. When a teacher who is fed up with seeing certain students treated differently because of their athletic abilities, he recruits T.J. to develop a swim team of unlikely athletes to knock some of them off their high horse. They must do this along with facing the troubles brought on by other coaches and parents of the star athletes.
The games have a big effect on Beijing,they used all the water and lots of non environmentally friendly stuff to make it all pretty for the Olympics.
88 Countries are competing in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Albania - 2 athletes Andorra - 6 athletes Argentina - 7 athletes Armenia - 4 athletes Australia - 61 athletes Austria - 130 athletes Azerbaijan - 4 athletes Belarus - 24 athletes Belgium - 7 athletes Bermuda - 1 athlete Bosnia and Herzegovina - 5 athletes Brazil - 13 athletes British Virgin Islands - 1 athlete Bulgaria - 18 athletes Canada - 221 athletes Cayman Islands - 1 athlete Chile - 6 athletes China - 66 athletes Croatia - 11 athletes Cyprus - 2 athletes Czech Republic - 85 athletes Denmark - 12 athletes Dominica - 2 athletes Estonia - 24 athletes Finland - 103 athletes France - 105 athletes Georgia - 4 athletes Germany - 153 athletes Great Britain - 56 athletes Greece - 7 athletes Hong Kong - 1 athlete Hungary - 16 athletes Iceland - 5 athletes India - 3 athletes Iran - 5 athletes Ireland - 5 athletes Israel - 5 athletes Italy - 113 athletes Jamaica - 2 athletes Japan - 113 athletes Kazakhstan - 52 athletes South Korea - 71 athletes Kyrgyzstan - 1 athlete Latvia - 58 athletes Lebanon - 2 athletes Liechtenstein - 4 athletes Lithuania - 9 athletes Luxembourg - 1 athlete Macedonia - 3 athletes Malta - 1 athlete Mexico - 1 athlete Moldova - 4 athletes Monaco - 5 athletes Mongolia - 2 athletes Montenegro - 2 athletes Morocco - 2 athletes Nepal - 1 athlete Netherlands - 41 athletes New Zealand - 15 athletes Norway - 134 athletes Pakistan - 1 athlete Paraguay - 1 athlete Peru - 3 athletes Philippines - 1 athlete Poland - 59 athletes Portugal - 2 athletes Romania - 24 athletes Russia - 226 athletes San Marino - 2 athletes Serbia - 8 athletes Slovakia - 62 athletes Slovenia - 66 athletes Spain - 20 athletes Sweden - 106 athletes Switzerland - 168 athletes Chinese Taipei - 3 athletes Tajikistan - 1 athlete Thailand - 2 athletes Timor-Leste - 1 athlete Togo - 2 athletes Tonga - 1 athlete Turkey - 6 athletes Ukraine - 43 athletes United States - 230 athletes Uzbekistan - 3 athletes Venezuela - 1 athlete Virgin Islands - 1 athletes Zimbabwe - 1 athlete
The 12 largest countries at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: # China - 639 athletes # The United States - 596 athletes # Russia - 467 athletes # Germany - 463 athletes # Australia - 433 athletes # Japan - 351 athletes # Italy - 344 athletes # Canada - 332 athletes # France - 323 athletes # Great Britain - 312 athletes # Spain - 286 athletes # Brazil - 277 athletes