Nowadays, Olympic torch rally becomes a hot topic on and off campus. Not only does it relate to the Olympics, but also it is connected with the nation’s pride. Beijing Olympics is a long-cherished dream for all the people of Chinese Origin. Chinese people home and abroad all take much attach to it. In this passage, it is said about 5,000 Chinese Canadians gathered in downtown Vancouver Saturday to voice their support for the Beijing Olympics and denounce some western media’s biased coverage of the riots in Tibet. It shows no matter where you are, you should not forget your nation. While the all nation are taking their effort to make this Olympics more impressive and rememberable, some people who bear evil mind become active in destroy the process of Olympics. They regard our nation as their enemy, using this opportunity to provoke to our government. However, It is the international community’s consensus that Tibet is an inalienable part of China. Therefore, every one should take pride in our country to hold Olympics instead of lose its face.
Olympics, as a grand sports event in the world, unite all the nations. There are no boundaries between sports. Someone said, “Sport brings us peace.” The people in a country should as become the peace-maker and devote themselves to the prosperity of their nation.

Zhang Ziyi is one of my favorite film stars, her sweet smile and her artistic movements have captivated millions of fans. Invited by the Greek Olympic Committee, the Beijing-born actress will attend the torch lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics in Athens as well as the handover ceremony. She also will work as one of the journalists of the 2008 Games’ official website, covering the Greek section of the torch relay from March 24-30 in 43 cities in Europe. To invite a film star to be the representative to the Greek Olympic Committee may get more people to fix their eyes on the Olympics. Some people may have interest in those actors and actresses. They search the information about those film stars so they can obtain some information about Olympics. It is a strategy to promote the Olympics. Meanwhile, sport is also a kind of entertainment. Athletes and actors or actresses are all under the spot lights. They could use their fame to contribute to their country as the same time their reputation is raised.

While athletes are striving to be the first on the sports field, president Jacques Rogge and the International Olympic Committee have been awarded a special prize for advancing the sport and environment agenda by providing greater resources to sustainable development and for introducing stringent environmental requirements for cities bidding to host Olympic Games. He became the man who is the champion of the earth. This proves that the awareness of environmental problem has been raised to a higher level, especially in the sports field.
Cities which in order to become the host of Olympic Games always neglect the certain expense of the environment. Once the Olympic is over, government and citizens have to afford this “prodigal glory” for a long time, including bear the environmental consequences for many years.
Every coin has to sides, as it is said in this article, The Olympic Games…… can bring several important environmental outcomes if they are planned, managed and conducted in a way which minimises the adverse environmental impacts and effects. The opportunity of the Games can also be used to provide sustainable environmental legacies, such as rehabilitated and revitalised sites, increased environmental awareness, and improved environmental policies and practices……
Beijing cries out green Olympics more or less meet the requirement of IOC’s concept. Whether we can seize this opportunity or not depends on all our efforts.
http://www.olympicspirit.org/press_070201_iocunep.php

“About 20 percent of those selected drivers are able to communicate in English fluently and most of them can speak simple English,” Can you imagine as soon as you sit in the taxi, the taxi driver can talk to you in both English and Chinese? That is what our government is trying to do. Drivers are trained to master the different languages to meet Olympics needs. Drivers, especially taxi drivers, are windows to foreign friends. As long as they come to China to watch the Game, they have to take those public vehicles. Drivers thus play an important role in the promoting our culture.
Olympics Games are an opportunity for a nation to enhancing the people’s awareness of their responsibility of their country. The volunteer drivers should pass the evaluations of driving skills, clean driving records and the test of language capabilities, Through this way, not only do the taxi drivers improve their English levels, but also they become more advantageous in the competition in the future work. Drivers are only one aspect in the preparation for the Olympic Games.
To make this Olympics more impressive, every Chinese should shoulder more or less responsibilities. In deed, taking a volunteer job in the Olympics is very tedious. We have to be persistent and active.

Jean-Claude Killy
“I think it is extremely important that young people be approached in between the Olympic Games, which only take place every four years. And how do you manage to communicate with them? Well, with an educational programme like Olympic Spirit, where they can really try out all the sports and learn about the correct movements. It is compact and practical. To be honest, I was sceptical at first, but the idea is fantastic and I hope we will find very soon more Olympic Spirit projects everywhere.”
H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince Albert II of Monaco
“Let’s keep the Olympic Spirit alive.”
Sergey Bubka
“Olympic Spirit comes close to capturing the state of mind that an athlete experiences when he is in the stadium, in the arena, and it evokes the atmosphere and the feelings experienced by the athlete.”
Irena Szewinska
“Olympic Spirit is a place where children in particular can learn about the Olympic Ideal and about all sport and, who knows, one day they might develop into wonderful athletes themselves.”

Different people may have different ideas about what Olympic spirit is. The people who take part in the Olympics themselves have another feeling about it. They experience more but say less, they suffer pains from their rigorous training, they shed tears when they can’t achieve the goal they have set before, they laugh when they succeed, and they meditate when they always make the same mistake. In a way, this is why sport is eternally charming.
As to an ordinary spectator, I also appreciate the impact that sport brings to me. I become excited when the athlete I always care performs well, I turn gloomy when my favorite team fails after their struggle against another powerful team.
Sport as well as competition educates us, entertains us and grows with us, this is all because it has spirit in it.

Before I read this article, I didn’t even know the word” snooker”. In this article, it is said that a recent survey about snooker sport shows that there are now over 700 snooker rooms in Beijing with 50 million fans playing snooker. It might be said that with Ding Junhui’s victory, snooker game is becoming a popular sport in China. We should not surprise about why it can become popular. You are strong, thus the people in your country like to watch, like to play and like to pay for the game.
It is the same as table tennis and diving. Chinese are expected to take off the medal in these two events, so even the price of the ticket of the good luck Beijing competition is higher than other events. Sponsors in China are also willing to throw money in these favored disciplines. On the contrast, the game of softball didn’t attract many people’s eyes. In the stadium, only a few foreign audiences are still yelling and cheering for the team of their nations. Most Chinese don’t know the rules of the game, let alone asking them to pay to see.
To sum up, sport also has the character of nation. To populate the game, you have to gain a medal, and then commen people may have interest in it.
http://www.crazyenglish.org/xinwen/sports/20070914/14121.html

Back ground:
Ending years of defiant Denial, Marion Jones has admitted to doping, pleading guilty to the felony of lying to federal investigations about it.
Her glories time on the track ended with the suspicions of her using drugs, and her name will fade with the trial. At the time when many journalists throws scorns to her, I feel quite sympathy for this former heroine. In an article named Marion Owns Us More, it is said she owes more the Olympic medals she has given up, more than the ill-gotten millions she squandered and will probably never repay.
Nowadays, many athletes are under high pressure of getting the gold medal. If you are the best, fame and glory and money will file up on you. If you are the second, no one will attach too much importance on you, even the camerists won’t take many pictures for you. Of course using doping is immortal in the competition, but still many athletes take risks. We always expect more than they are able to achieve. They have to afford the pressure of both physical and psychological. It’s no wonder Jones, an elite athlete chose the same way she shouldn’t have done.