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Brian Berg spent 20 days recreating Beijing's Olympic Village using over 140,000 playing cards. (and apparently didn't sneeze once during construction) [via Gizmodo] More: Playing Card Top Hat Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!

BEIJING, CHINA — Bob Costas was spotted in an airport gift shop on Monday morning purchasing last-minute souvenirs for his children, whom he apparently forgot about during his month in Beijing. “I’ve just been so busy covering the ins and outs of the Olympics that I really haven’t had a chance to

China has received kudos worldwide for a green Olympics. They've used the latest innovations in sustainable architecture, energy and landscaping for the 2008 Olympic Village in Beijing (see our previous post by Juliana Sloane).

Just What Was Going On at Night in the Athletes’ Village? By Jeff Z. Klein Ever wonder what it’d be like in the Olympic Village at the end of the Games, with all those young athletes, all in perfect physical shape, mingling together in a pampered party atmosphere? Well, what do you think it’d be like?

According to the news from Xinhuanet, the Beijing Olympic Village designed with environmental-friendly concept in mind, won the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold award on Wednesday, 13th of August.

Excerpt From Wallstreet Journal China Blog. It was a perfect day to spend at the 10-lane, 50-meter swimming pool in the athlete village. Some of the largest men I’ve ever seen (Romania — wrestlers?) were proudly donning their speedo suits and catching some afternoon rays next to tiny gymnasts and divers from Great Britain, listening to Billy Jean.

You have to admire someone with this much patience, and the ability to not wave his hands around so he knocks over the thing he just took several days to construct:

Love and sex in the Olympic Village August 20th, 2008 - 9:14 am ICT by IANS - Email This Post Beijing, Aug 20 (DPA) Discovering the advantages of international love, volunteering to try out one of the more than 100,000 condoms being handed out in the Village, or simply out to party is an Olympic

Some Lego-addicted and fanatics have made the Beijing Olympics Lego model to give an appealing look of all the real Olympics Buildings such as Olympic Village. The model that was displayed in Hong Kong truly speaks the Olympic Imagery tour with the real traces of its venues.

#fullpost{display:inline;}Well, the photo speaks more then thousand words....It looks like what we wrote is truth, and Ultima Hora and Kurir were right....Here is the photo of Leryn Franco and Novak Djokovic in Olympic Village....(photo thanks to Noblica from B92 Forum)