Dana Torres, mother of a 2-year-old girl, looked like a kid again herself -- waving an American flag on the pool deck -- in making an unprecedented fifth Olympic team, winning the 100-meter freestyle in 53.78 seconds at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. Natalie Coughlin, the U.S.-record holder, was second in 53.83.

This year's Summer Olympics is in Beijing, which is 12 hours ahead of EDT. Yep, that means many events will take place while Americans are sleeping. Of course, this isn't a new problem; it's happened many times before when the Olympics was held in locales with such a time differential.

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to anti-doping work; the State Council has devoted special efforts to the deployment of doping, and set up the leading group for doping control involved by eight organizations, FDA of China and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), to conduct special management action on production and distribution of doping.

One talented student from the St. Lucie County School District in Florida has been awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, courtesy of Panasonic USA. The student, who won St. Lucie County's "China Experience" contest, triumphed over 58 other entrants in the competition.

Panasonic, the leading brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is best known, today announced that the company has agreed on a partnership with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games(BOCOG) to become an Official Partner of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games in the Video and Audio Equipment Category.

A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refutes scientific claims that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athlete, provide him with an unfair advantage in the 400-meter race.

With the Olympic Games in sight, the Chinese Government is committed to improving the air quality in Beijing, and has had measures in place since 1998 which have already made a difference.

The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, an emotional moment for China and the crowning of the Beijing Olympics torch relay that was dogged by anti-Chinese protests on its world tour.

The recent outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) will not affect the Beijing Olympic Games, health ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an said in Beijing Wednesday.

China celebrated the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics with dancers, singers, and a fun run in the capital. But, as Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing, the build-up to the Olympics has been overshadowed by clashes over China's human rights record.

This summer should be a marketer’s dream. The Olympics have always been a business mecca. But will Beijing 2008 prove to be a marketing nightmare?

China unites traditional Chinese culture with the Olympic Spirit in the design of Beijing Olympic Tickets.