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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Beijing that took place August 8–24, 2008. The Beijing Games were the 26th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. Some 200 Olympic committees sent almost 11,000 athletes to compete in 28 sports. The Games were auspiciously scheduled to begin at 8:08 PM on the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008 in Beijing, capital of the world’s most populous country. (Eight is considered a lucky number in Chinese tradition.)
The Beijing Games were dominated by two historic sporting feats. American swimmer Michael Phelps broke Mark Spitz’s record for most gold medals won in a single Olympics, taking the gold in each of the eight events in which he competed. Phelps’s eight golds brought his career total to 14, another Olympic record. While Phelps’s accomplishments would likely have been the biggest story in almost any other Olympiad, sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica earned his share of the spotlight by claiming the mantle of “the fastest man alive” in dramatic fashion. He not only took gold in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints (and captured a third gold medal as a member of Jamaica’s 4 × 100-meter relay team, although the medal was later stripped from the team after the 2017 revelation of a failed drug test by one of the team members), he did so while shattering the world record time for each event. Other notable moments of the Beijing Games included India’s Abhinav Bindra winning the men’s 10-meter air rifle event to capture the first individual gold medal in his country’s history and Mongolia’s Tuvshinbayar Naidan taking the men’s 100-kg judo event for the first gold of any kind in his country’s history. The Games were also a boon for the host country, as China won more gold medals in a single Olympiad (51) than any other country had since 1988. The top medal-winning athletes are listed below.
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