#beijing

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. ↗

— Laure Manaudou

#any #athens #beijing #everybody #expectations

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#across #ask #authorities #beijing #decision

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan. ↗

— Kohei Uchimura

#beijing #bitter #bring #erase #gold

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. ↗

— John Lone

#beijing #company #craft #i #into

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. ↗

— Ma Jian

#before #beijing #books #continually #i

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. ↗

— Ma Jian

#finish #me #took #years

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #authorities #been #beijing #book

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. ↗

— Ma Jian

#china #confirmation #entrance #grand #new