2008 Beijing Olympics

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We covered in the mag…

…but it got confusing. Here’s an e-zine article that addresses it from when Beijing was first announced as host city. Since then, wushu was officially denied. However, China protested, so the IOC said that they would observe how things went at the Asian Games and wushu’s status went into some kind of weird twilight zone. The Asian Games went well. They’re still talking about the possibility of wushu participating as an event in the Olympics. In fact, it was still on the table at the World Traditional Wushu Festival in China last October. I doubt it will go in as a medal event, but then again, Tae Kwon Do didn’t go in as a medal sport - in fact it took 12 years for it to earn medal status. So wushu has a good chance to go in as a demo sport, and that would be fine.

Curling is the winter olympics, which is quite different than the summer games.

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Yeah, the winter olympics are still fun to watch.

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All the martial arts are in the summer games…

…although snow ninja wrestling is bidding for a winter game slot. I suppose figure skating was a martial art in the days of Kerrigan/Harding, but not anymore. Seriously, people wouldn’t make as much fun of curling if the competitors were dressed like women’s beach volleyball.

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I’m speaking from more of the skeleton, luge, ski racing, etc. side of the winter olympics…

:stuck_out_tongue:

But have you seen the woman in that sport… no thanks, I’d rather them stay in there flannel shirts and overalls.

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Olympic handball is the lamest “sport” I’ve ever seen. It looks lik it was invented by a communist. I wouldn’t even let the mentally retarded play that game. Wushu would be way better. You know what’s kind of cool though is the trampoline in the gymnastics part. It was th first year they had it last time so it was like chaos.

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Originally posted by jun_erh
Olympic handball is the lamest “sport” I’ve ever seen. It looks lik it was invented by a communist. I wouldn’t even let the mentally retarded play that game. Wushu would be way better. You know what’s kind of cool though is the trampoline in the gymnastics part. It was th first year they had it last time so it was like chaos.

but handball is fun. :smiley:

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I personally think they should remove table tennis, the chinese ALWAYS win at that, they get like 99 % of all the medals in it, they should just get rid of it and put in WuShu. this makes alot of sense to me. trade one garunteed gold for another, that is alot more fun to watch.

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teh stupid sweeping the puck thing they should get rid of!!!

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Sweeping the puck!!

Dude ShaolinLueb get rid of handball and keep sweeping the puck it comes from Canada eh!

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Re: Sweeping the puck!!

Originally posted by ShaolinJOJO
Dude ShaolinLueb get rid of handball and keep sweeping the puck it comes from Canada eh!

sweeping the puck is teh gay. come on basketball was invented by a canadian. be happy :stuck_out_tongue:

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I personally dont care what anyone says. I have faith. WuShu is just to raw not to add. At least a demo spot. I think it would be an incredable insult to all of china if the rest of the world said no to one of china’s greates past times. If the they dont at least let it in as a Demo sport I will be protesting for sure. I never have before but I will start. I think that the rest of the martial arts circles are just afraid that once the world is more exposed to the level of engergy WuShu/Kung Fu has to offer, everyone will start wanting to learn CMA. Cause its the bomb. Everyone knows that a true CMA master is rounded fully and can do it all. But can a Tae Kwon Do master break iron bars with his forehead like the Shaolin? Or do 7 foot backflips standing still. No. Its a conspiracy i tell you. Or i may just be going off on some paranoid anticts. Either way I trust Wushu will began to take on a dominant role in the Martial community within the next few years.

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2008 olympics

Are there any news about the possibility of wushu being a part of it?

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I think it is offically dead.

Not even a demo or performance.

however, Wu Shu Tao Lu and Wu Shu San Da are regularly held in east Asia games every 4 years.

And yet, we would always remember the Kuo Shu demo in Berlin Olympic in 1930’s.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/16/content_3621265.htm

:cool:

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They’re still talking about some sort of opening performance…

…but it looks dead as a medal or demonstration event. There’s talk of some sort of simultaneuos competition - there’s all sorts of other competitions that are run around the Olympics, like the para-Olympics, but they’re pretty focused and can’t really hold much of a candle to the main events, of course.

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Being realistic…if it is not a medal event and not a demo event…it is nothing.

Even with medal events, coverage could be scant or none at all.

However, as neither one, it will get no coverage, no boost, and the only ones who will hear about it will be those that are already involved.

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At the opening of an envelope in china, there’s a wushu demonstration. You can count on the opening ceremonies having it. :stuck_out_tongue:

As a demonstration sport, me no think it gonna fly. Still no 100% for sure organization that is unified and so the IOC will not support it until everyone has their poop in a group.

And we know just how difficult it is to get a few kungfu teachers to sit in the same room with each other let alone be civil with their tongues and behaviours hahaha.
It’s like a freaking religion for petes sake. Better to have monks than clerics in my opinion as far as that goes.

I’d like to see pankration come back…even if it is just mma. lol that would totally roxors.

but there’s already lots of martial arts in the olympics anyway.

judo, tkd, boxing, wrestling, fencing, archery and other pseudo martial arts.
Do we really need performance wushu as an olympic sport? It’s got it’s own thing going on anyway. Let the money go to the more obscure sports like frilly whippy dancy tissue whips and somersaulting while throwing the ball. How else are those already rpiviledged kids going to make it through vasser without the olympic program?

…oh, i’m sorry, I’m not a bigsupporter of the olympics anymore ever since they brought in curling, I figure it’s just a big sausage fest with tom boys.

I mean come on…Curling? WTF are they thinking???

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what would be the point of having a competition where literally only one country would be capable of competing in any real sense.

Americans and europeans can’t compete with a country that makes it one’s JOB to train in wushu.

They could just pull out the monks from their travelling show Wheel of Life and own everyone. It’d really be pointless.

Kind of like having basketball in the Olympics after the US first invented it in the early 20th century… Seriously. There’d be like 1000 Michael Jordans of Wushu coming out of China. And they can all do the same move in sync and look the same… it’s amazing. And it’d be an easy gold for china.

No point.

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126 days to go

I need to compile all the Beijing Olympic threads now. I like the title of this one, so I’ll start doing it here.

Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi to Sing for Olympic Film
2008-04-03 10:21:57 CRIENGLISH.com

Stefanie Sun is in a Beijing studio on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, recording “Stand Up,” the theme song for “The One,” a tribute film to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. [Photo: ent.sina.com.cn]
Related: “The One” Dedicated to Beijing Olympics

A new film about China’s first Olympian will feature four top Chinese-speaking celebrities on its soundtrack, its producer said on Wednesday.

Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang, Zhang Ziyi and Stefanie Sun will join together to sing “Stand Up,” the theme song for “The One,” producer Wang Zhebin told the Beijing Times.

“The One” is based on the story of sprinter Liu Changchun’s struggle against Japanese invaders to represent China at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. Supported by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), the film was made as a tribute to the 2008 Beijing Games.

The idea to form a quartet to sing the theme song arose from the symbolic combination of four groups of Chinese artists – Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland and overseas Chinese – represented by Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang, Zhang Ziyi and Stefanie Sun, respectively, the report says.

Since the stars all have busy schedules and arranging a joint recording would be difficult, they will work separately and their parts will be edited together later, Wang Pingjiu, lyricist of “Stand Up” and a senior official in the BOCOG cultural committee, said. Award-winning musician Shu Nan composed the musical score for “Stand Up.”

Stefanie Sun kicked off the recording in a Beijing studio on Tuesday. The Singaporean singer said she was honored to be involved.

“The One” is currently in post-production and will be ready for release next month. Earlier reports say it will be available to worldwide athletes attending the Beijing Olympics in August.

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[QUOTE=GeneChing;643729]…but it looks dead as a medal or demonstration event.

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Gene! Gene! Gene! Talk of this sort will bring back our troll friend from Texas yet again :stuck_out_tongue:

Wushu and Sanshou/San Da in the olympics turned sadly into another example of a Chinese fire drill :rolleyes:

I have no doubt they will put up a fake olympic style wushu event at the same time, telling the participants they are going to be part of the Olympics :cool:

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Didn’t it take time before TKD became an Olympic event?

Like wasn’t it a demo event or something first?