Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936

"Single-party regimes, traditionally Communist regimes, do much better than their democratic peers."

we are compiling a list of 17 Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements. In this post, you can see how different companies conveyed their marketing/promotion message for their products or services for the Olympic season.

So we have two different ways of counting the medals tally: one by the overall number of medals, the other by the number of golds.

For decades, foreign athletes have come to the US to train and bolster American university teams, boosting the level of competition and bringing Yankee jocks shoulder to shoulder with multiculturalism. But now, with nearly $1 billion to spend in scholarship money and growing pressure to field winning teams, schools are increasingly filling their rosters with foreign athletes.

Michael Phelps can split the atom. With his bare hands.

"I was running late, rushing from my last job to the Bird's Nest for the men's 100m final - as I turned the corner with one of my colleagues we saw a full moon rising above the stadium and we could not believe our luck!"

As the world watches the Beijing Games, enthusiasts from Hong Kong have unveiled their own Olympics — built entirely from Lego.

Olympic Medals won by million population

Number of Olympics medals won based on GDP

“Stunned viewers thought they were watching the string of fireworks filmed from above by a helicopter,” said SkyNews.com. “ But in reality they were watching a 3-D graphics sequence that took almost a year to produce.”

Circles are sized by the number of medals each country won in past summer Olympic Games.

Two are disqualified for jumping the gun. The last one races against himself. Guess who won?

Final preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics are in full swing in Beijing. This includes completing hundreds of construction projects, reconstructions, pollution controls, cultural training, and a general "beautifying" of greater Beijing.

How about an updated logo?

No comment about India. But look, China still falls in our category :)