China and the United States lead the 2008 Summer Olympic Medal Count in Beijing, according to reports Monday.

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.

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 we come close to the Beijing Olympic Games, a review article, in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) reminds us that the heat and humidity in the Beijing region will present a formidable challenge to all athletes. Moreover, poor quality of air can also affect all athletes, especially those with asthma.

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.

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.

BOCOG President Liu Qi told the International Olympic Committee that Beijing has completed the preparatory work for the 2008 Olympic Games, which will write a new page in the development of the Olympic Movement.

With two days to go before the start of the Beijing Olympics, the organizers of the Games released the plan for the Opening Ceremony, which takes place on August 8.

Traveling via 433 different torchbearers, the Olympic flame finally reached Li Furong, vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee. As the last torchbearer, Li lit the fire cauldron at the historic Temple of Heaven to end the first day of the Torch Relay in Beijing.