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Former good article nominee2008 Summer Olympics was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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March 4, 2007Good article nomineeNot listed
June 27, 2009Peer reviewReviewed
In the newsA news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on August 25, 2024.
Current status: Former good article nominee

Broadcasting in Peru

ATV (Peruvian Network) share the rights to host the games. They will both broadcast them in Peru.

Broadcasting in Spain

The public Spanish network TVE has a High Definition channel TVE-HD which can be tuned in the Digital+ pay package. I can't edit the broadcaster box. Please somebody add this.

Online presence

There should be mention of this being the first olympics to have live internet streaming of the events (nbcolympics.com etc..).--Cooly123 00:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cooly123 (talk • contribs)

I am surprised this has not been updated and it has been nearly 2 years,--Cooly123 00:59, 29 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cooly123 (talk • contribs)

Statistics

The number of athletes is stated to be 11,028 but unlike in other Summer Olympic Games articles, the number of male and female athletes is not disclosed. Is there any reason for that? BTW, do someone know where to find these figures? The official site doesn't seem to have them either, nor does the site of the IOC. Thanks 4november (talk) 08:43, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[1] - This figure only included those that actually physically competed. Topcardi (talk) 10:53, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Belize (3)

Click on Belize and it says their delegation had four members, not three. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.167.54.37 (talk) 02:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic truce broken by Russia

Traditionally, the Olympic games' opening ceremonies carries an "olympic truce" for all participating countries to temporarily hold off any wars and grudges among each other for the entire olympiad. This was indeed violated on Aug. 8th the same day when the Beijing games opening ceremony took place, when the Russian army invaded the Republic of Georgia to occupy parts of the country, the break-away republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be assisted by the Russian army. It affected Russian and Georgian olympic athletes, news reporters noticed a gloomy mood among the Georgians who felt distracted on the news from their homeland. The article should added the significance of a brief war to broke out during the olympic games' truce.+ 71.102.7.77 (talk) 22:21, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Music used from Generals

I once heard that one track from the OST of C&C: Generals was used in this Olympics. Is this true? And which one?

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