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2008 Beijing Olympics
Scholastic News Online reports on the games
 | The Scholastic News Kids Press Corps is blogging the Olympics! As you watch the 2008 Beijing Olympics, follow the games online with kid reporters who are writing about the excitement and exciting competition at the Olympics! Read all of the Kids Press Corps reports and comment on them at the Scholastic News Online Olympics Blog! | |
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, promises to be an incredible display of international competition. The Beijing Games will also give the world an unprecedented look at the culture and politics of the country.
Keep up with all of the action and wonder of the games with this collection of videos, blogs, and articles about the 2008 Olympics. Kid reporters will be blogging about events as they happen, too.
To start your Olympic learning journey, check out this preview video from NBC Olympics. Then, head to the Scholastic News Online Olympics Blog and follow the Kids Press Corps' coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics!
U.S. Olympic athletes share the anticipation of their trip to the city of Beijing, China, and how they are feeling about competing in front of the whole world on the 2008 Olympic stage.
Get up to the minute coverage of the 2008 Olympics at NBCOlympics.com.
The Scholastic Kids Press Corps will be blogging about Olympic events, too. Check out their coverage on the Scholastic News Blog.
Source: Scholastic News Online
Articles
by Allie Sakowicz
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | September 8,2008
Thousands of people from all over the world packed into Millennium Park in Chicago for a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show and to see Olympians such as Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson, and Kobe Bryant, among 150 others.
by Michael Carboni
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | September 4,2008
Swimmer Peter Vanderkaay won two medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics: a gold and a bronze. Kid Reporter Michael Carboni talks to Peter about swimming in the Olympics and what it's like to be an athlete and live with asthma.
by Sean Coffey
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | August 20,2008
Michael Phelps and gold medals just go hand in hand. He now has 14 of them! Just imagine. Not one. Not six. Fourteen!
by Ashlyn Stewart
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | August 15,2008
Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson of the U.S. women's gymnastics team dazzled in the individual all-around competition Thursday. Nastia won the gold medal, and Shawn took the silver.
by Jimmy Pitenis
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | August 13,2008
He is Ryan Lochte from Port Orange, Florida, and most of us will never experience the water on the same level he does. That's because at 24 years old, Lochte is one of the fastest swimmers in the world.
by Mackenzie Korbus
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | August 13,2008
Kid Reporter Mackenzie Korbus had the opportunity recently to interview three of the women's soccer team members before they took off for the Olympic Games: Amy Rodriguez, Hope Solo, and Heather Mitts.
by Allie Sakowicz
Scholastic News Online | August 11,2008
Kid Reporter Allie Sakowicz reports on the qualifying round of the women's gymnastics competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and she talks with gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes.
by Allison Tam
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | August 8,2008
In every Olympics, athletes from around the world break many records. The 2008 Olympics begin in Beijing, China, on August 8, but before any of the games have started, these Olympics have already broken many records.
by Maureen Ker
Scholastic News Online | July 28,2008
Top US Women's Soccer player Abby Wambach broke her leg just three weeks before the Olympics. Players and fans alike are now wondering about the team's chances in Beijing.
by Karen Fanning
Scholastic News Online | July 18,2008
With the Games less than a month away, Torres and America's other top athletes are competing in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Their prize? A ticket to Beijing, and a shot at Olympic glory.
by Dante A. Ciampaglia
Scholastic News Online | May 8,2008
Dawn breaks on Mount Everest. The 19 members of the "One World, One Dream" Olympic flame relay team are camped 27,390 feet up the mountain.
by Gabyliz Machado , Rudy Marschke , Joe Wlos and Michael Geheren
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | April 15,2008
This week, Scholastic News Kid Reporters are interviewing more than 130 athletes who have gathered in Chicago for a media summit four months before the 2008 Olympic Games begin.
by Allie Sakowicz
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | April 15,2008
Four thousand men and women are hoping to qualify for a different kind of Olympic Games in 2008: the Paralympics.
by Joe Wlos
Scholastic Kids Press Corps | April 15,2008
The greatest athletes from around the world have been working for four or more years to prepare for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the largest sporting event in history.
by Dante A. Ciampaglia
Scholastic News Online | April 10,2008
Demonstrators in San Francisco, Paris, and London disrupt relay.
by Dante A. Ciampaglia
Scholastic News Online | March 25,2008
The countdown to the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing officially began on Monday with the lighting of the Olympic torch in Olympia, Greece.
Activities
Scholastic News Online | The city of Chicago is hosting the Olympic Media Summit April 13-16, and Scholastic News is covering the athletic extravaganza.
