{"id":22827,"date":"2008-08-15T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T05:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2008-08-15T22:32:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T05:32:35","slug":"china%e2%80%99s-games-live-up-to-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/08\/china%e2%80%99s-games-live-up-to-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Games Live Up to Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/olympics08\/2008\/08\/15\/china\u2019s-games-live-up-to-hype\/\">From The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China\u2019s Olympics have been China\u2019s Olympics. We knew the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/08\/photos-gymnastics-training-slogan\/\">Chinese were coming<\/a>, but we weren\u2019t expecting them from every direction: weightlifting, shooting, wrestling, gymnastics, diving, even swimming.<\/p>\n<p>If an opening ceremonies that included everything but live, fire-breathing dragons didn\u2019t tell us that the Chinese were serious about this whole Olympic thing, the first week of competition certainly has.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, the gymnastics and diving venues could have simply left the Chinese flag in the gold-medal position. In seven events, there have been no other winners. At the weightlifting gym and indoor shooting range, the Chinese flag has been raised the highest in 10 of 16 events.<\/p>\n<p>All that stands between China and Olympic domination, it seems, is Michael Phelps and every flexed muscle in his body, an American Great Wall. Perhaps he can solve the mortgage crisis and the weak dollar, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Christian Science Monitor: China\u2019s Olympics have been China\u2019s Olympics. We knew the Chinese were coming, but we weren\u2019t expecting them from every direction: weightlifting, shooting, wrestling, gymnastics, diving, even swimming. If an opening ceremonies that included everything but live, fire-breathing dragons didn\u2019t tell us that the Chinese were serious about this whole Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,116],"tags":[7132,1641],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-olympics-2008","category-world","tag-olympics-sports","tag-sports","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China\u2019s Games Live Up to Hype<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/08\/china\u2019s-games-live-up-to-hype\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China\u2019s Games Live Up to Hype\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From The Christian Science Monitor: China\u2019s Olympics have been China\u2019s Olympics. 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