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Olympics 2008 - Daily Summary from ASOIF
22 Aug 2008 08:05
 

On the 11th day of the competition events, there was a total of 22 competition events staged in 37 venues, including 16 in Beijing and 21 in 3 co-host cities.

The composition organization and venue operation are still running smoothly.

The competition venues received 1,871 athletes and 1,128 team officials from 668 participating teams as well as 1896 technical officials, 372,397 spectators, 7,476 VIPs, 7,225 journalists.

Out of the 36 competition of 25 events, 18 had spectator attendants rate of over 90%, 10 had 80%, 3 had over 70%, 3 had over 60%, 2 competitions had a spectator attendants rate of less than 60%.

On August 19 the Olympic Green common domain received 238,150, including returning visitors and 17,341 people with coupons enter the Olympic Green Forest Park.

14 of the 38 disciplines from 28 sports of the Olympic Games have come to a successful conclusion. This include the competition events including gymnastics, trampoline, fencing, archery, tennis, shooting, track cycling, road cycling, rowing, canoe/kayak of slalom, triathlon, weight lifting, judo and badminton. A total of 205 gold medals, 206 silver medals and 232 bronze medals have been awarded so far. In this Games, we have seen 36 world records broken. So far 74 Olympic records and 7 world youth records have been broken. 41 countries and regions have received gold medals in the Games, a total of 75 countries and regions have won medals.


ASOIF visited the last two days softball, triathlon, gymnastics and track cycling. 


Update for the 12th day of the Games: there will be 20 competition events including events from 9 outdoor sports namely baseball, sailing, softball, canoe-kayak flatwater, hockey, beach volleyball, athletics, swimming-women's 10 kilometers marathon and BMX cycling. A total of 11 gold medals will be awarded.

 


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