In a press conference hosted by the IOC and BOCOG on Sunday, August 10, Giselle Davis, IOC Director of Communications, stated that the committees were in the process of collecting information on worldwide Opening Ceremony viewership.

World No. 1 tennis player Roger Federer may have a locker full of Grand Slam titles -- but he has come to Beijing courting an elusive medal: Olympic gold.

The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team is hoping to make up for its somewhat shocking third place finish at the Athens Games four years ago. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer is in Beijing and has a report.

As the first olympic results are coming out China's Pang Wei wins gold in the Men's 10m Air Pistol.

No one could have ever predicted that China would backtrack on its promises of free and unfettered access for foreign journalists covering the Olympics.

The greatest sporting show on the Earth gets officially underway on Saturday, August 9 with seven gold medals at stake in five separate sports and competition kicking off in a further 13 sports.

As the Olympic countdown reaches hours rather than days before kick-off, speculation about the weather condition become less abstract - will the pollution clear? - and more real - has it or not? However even now the issue of air pollution is a little hazy (apologies); conflicting stories seem and contrasting conditions seem to be stirring up debate.

The UN postal service announced on Wednesday that it would issue a set of six commemorative stamps designed by a South American artist to mark the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

China is on the brink of becoming the most dominant sporting power in the world, with expectations running high that they will bounce the United States from the top of the Olympic medal table.

Fireforks created a heavy smog over the "Bird's Nest" in Beijing as the Olympic Opening Ceremony got off to a spectacular start. This is the time and day that China and the entire world has waited and was looking forward to.

Star basketball player Yao Ming will hold China's national flag during the Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2008 tomorrow night.

As you may know Olympic soccer games start earlier than the official Olympic Games Opening. This is the case in Beijing as well. While NBC has the full olympic soccer and other games' schedule on its website, we present some of the soccer results that have been played in Beijing in the last two days.