BEIJING, Aug. 9 -- They did it. After seven years of meticulous preparation, the Chinese opened the 2008 Summer Olympics, celebrating 5,000 years of history and exulting in their newly recovered status as a world power. They did it with a smoothly choreographed extravaganza of fireworks and... -
A Spectacular Opening to the 29th Olympiad
BEIJING, Aug. 9 -- They did it. After seven years of meticulous preparation, the Chinese opened the 2008 Summer Olympics, celebrating 5,000 years of history and exulting in their newly recovered status as a world power. They did it with a smoothly choreographed extravaganza of fireworks and...-
By Edward Cody, Maureen Fan and Jill Drew