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Olympic News Thu 21 Aug 2008
OMEGA and Sotheby’s announce auction of Unique Pagoda Collection to benefit CAEF
Bangkok 21 Aug Kick off event at the OMEGA Pavilion, 22 August 2008, 16:00 Presentations by gymnastics legend Li Ning and top management from OMEGA and Sotheby’s Chinese Athletes such as LI Yong Bo, Yang Yang, Liu Xuan, Jin Jing also attend An event is planned at the OMEGA Pavilion on the Olympic Green toread more
OMEGA presents the “Beijing 2008, Unique No. 8 Collection” The ultimate Olympic collectable. 888,888 Swiss francs.
Bangkok 21 Aug OMEGA, the Swiss luxury watchmaker and Official Timekeeper of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, reveals the extraordinary “Beijing 2008, Unique No. 8 Collection” whose beauty, rarity, and extravagance define it as the ultimate Olympic collector’s item. Based on the “lucky numberread more
5 OMEGA swimming ambassadors — 48 Olympic medals!
Bangkok 21 Aug The Swatch Group Trading OMEGA’s five swimming ambassadors who gathered at the Swiss watchmaker’s Pavilion on Wednesday have earned a staggering total 48 Olympic medals among them, anchored by the 16 held by Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time. Phelps was joined on theread more
Thai Teenager Wins Historic Medal in Beijing Olympics
A high school girl handed Thailand an unprecedented Olympic silver in taekwondo from the women's under-49kg class. Buttree Puedpong, 18, from Samut Prakan Province fought her way to overpower athletes from Cuba, Vietnam and Venezuela to have the final round with world champion Chinese Wu Jingyu. She went down to the strongly built Chinese 0-1 in the heart-felt match. read more
Olympic News Wed 20 Aug 2008
Air China Goes for Gold With its Olympic Standard Facilities
BEIJING 20 Aug Xinhua PRNewswire AsiaNet/InfoQuest Air China has made gold standard improvements to its fleet and raised the bar for customer services, to give its passengers the best possible experience during the Olympic Games. (Logo: http://www.xprn.com/xprn/sa/200808050938.jpg ) Air China's move to Terminal 3,read more
Nortel announced as Official Network Infrastructure Partner and seventh Tier One sponsor for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
Bangkok 20 Aug Weber Shandwick The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited (LOCOG) today announced that Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] is the Official Network Infrastructure Partner and the latest London 2012 Tier One sponsor. LOCOG is now well over half the way to reaching its domesticread more
Olympic News Tue 19 Aug 2008
Leveraging Olympic Spotlight, Marketers Turn to News Video
Bangkok 19 Aug MARKETWIRE The NewsMarket Reports Record Breaking Uploads of Olympics News Video by Corporate Marketers and Institutions Corporate and institutional marketers are providing record amounts of rights free video content from the Beijing Olympics to news media outlets for use in their reporting, accordingread more
Olympic News Mon 18 Aug 2008
3Com’s H3C Provides IP Networking Infrastructure for Beijing Olympic Games
Bangkok 18 Aug Hill & Knowlton As a leading Internet architecture solution innovator based in China, H3C Technologies is actively getting itself involved in a number of the major networking infrastructure projects in Beijing, the venue city for the coming 2008 Olympic Games. H3C has been the principal technologyread more
Live at Millennium Monument Park -- 2008 Olympic Athletes: Bringing a New Vision to Competition
Bangkok 18 Aug MARKET WIRE WHAT: Olympic athletes around the world have prepared for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games using The AchieveVision(TM) Program, a state of the art visual skills assessment and optimizing program from The Vision Care InstituteTM, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company, to help determine if theirread more
Boxer Manus assured of medal
A reformed Manus Boonjumnong punched his way into history when he became Thailand's first two time Olympic medallist with his quarterfinal triumph last night.read more
Olympic News Sun 17 Aug 2008
Jamaica's Bolt wins 100m gold in record time
He's now set his sights on the 200m. Jamaica's Usain Bolt won 100 metres gold at the Beijing Olympics in world record time yesterday, thumping his chest in celebration as he scorched to victory in 9.69 seconds.read more
Olympic News Sat 16 Aug 2008
Olympic heroine returns, but no party
Olympic weightlifting gold medallist Prapawadee jaroenrattanatarakoon was given a very warm welcome when she returned home yesterday, but all the functions to celebrate her victory were suddenly put on hold until Aug 25.read more
Olympic News Fri 15 Aug 2008
Desperately seeking Cindy
Bangkok 15 Aug The Swatch Group Trading OMEGA discovered exactly how many members of the media its Pavilion on the Olympic Green would accommodate when its longest serving brand ambassador, supermodel Cindy Crawford, made a live appearance on Thursday, 14 August, 2008. A crush of photographers and television filmread more
Coke, Pepsi slug it out at boxer's home
Worapoj Phetkum has not yet stepped into the boxing ring at the Olympic Games in Beijing, but the fighting has already started at his house in the southern province of Surat Thani.read more
Olympic News Wed 13 Aug 2008
The Next Evolution in Training the Modern Athlete: The AchieveVision(TM) Program Helps Athletes Develop Visual Skills for Beijing
Bangkok 13 Aug MARKETWIRE Olympians Use The AchieveVision(TM) Program From The Vision Care Institute to Maximize Vision for Competition As millions of eyes around the globe turn to China to watch the world's top athletes go for gold at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, those athletes will be relying on their own visionread more
THAI Flies the Olympic Gold Medallists Family to Beijing
Bangkok 13 Aug Thai Airways International Thai Airways International Public Company Limited will fly family members of the Olympic medallists to Beijing. Flg.Off.Apinan Sumanaseni, THAI’s President, said that “ THAI, as the official sponsor of the Thai Weightlifting Association, would like to congratulateread more
Olympic News Mon 11 Aug 2008
15 Plane Loads of Visa Cardholders Get Ready to Go to the Games
Bangkok 11 Aug Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide All it took the 3,000 Visa cardholders and their travel companions to experience the Olympic spirit was to use their Visa cards In one of the largest Visa Olympic Games promotions ever to be staged, Visa will send 6,000 people the equivalent of 15 Boeing 747 400 jumboread more
Thailand Wins First Gold Medal at Beijing Olympics
Weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon's sheer determination wins Thailand's first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. The 24-year-old Nakhon Sawan native won the 53-kilogramme title with a lift of 95kg in the snatch before setting an Olympic record of 126kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 221kg.read more
The small-town girl standing on top of the world
Her mother fainted and more than 300 people watching the action on a giant screen set up in their willage in tambon Nong Pling erupted with joy the moment weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanakoon broke the Olympic record and won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics yesterday.read more
Olympic News Sun 10 Aug 2008
Two Thai medal hopes fail to make it through
Weightlifters Premsiri Bunpithak and Pensiri Laosirikul, two of Thailand's top medal hopes, failed to finish in the top three at the Beijing Olympics yesterday.read more
Olympic News Sat 9 Aug 2008
LET THE DRAGON GAMES BEGIN
The 29th Olympic Games, costing an estimated US$40 billion (Bt1.35 trillion) and shrouded by political controversies, burst into life last night with a spectacular opening ceremony.read more
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