Redeem Team: How Kobe Bryant’s steel restored pride to US basketball
A new Netflix documentary explores how the late NBA star helped provide some comfort for a team and country in turmoil
December 2021
Mind Games: how China’s confidence soared between two Olympics
The international context and mood music are very different 14 years after the Beijing Summer Games
March 2020
My favourite game
My favourite game: Usain Bolt wins Olympic 200m gold at Beijing 2008
No one had got near Michael Johnson’s 1996 world record until the Jamaican giant scorched the Bird’s Nest and seared history
August 2018
Carli Lloyd at the death: Ten years on from the USWNT's most improbable win
From the agencies
Beijing's crumbling Olympic legacy – in pictures
February 2017
Usain Bolt’s chances of regaining 2008 relay gold and triple-treble still alive
Sprinter Nesta Carter has appealed against the decision to strip him and a Jamaican team featuring Usain Bolt of an Olympic 4x100 metres relay gold medal due to doping
January 2017
Usain Bolt stripped of 2008 Olympic relay gold – video report
Usain Bolt is stripped of his 2008 Olympic relay gold medal after methylhexanamine is found in retested blood sample of team-mate
Usain Bolt stripped of 2008 Olympic relay gold after Nesta Carter fails drug test
Usain Bolt is no longer a nine-time Olympic champion after being stripped of his 2008 4x100m relay gold because his Jamaica team-mate, Nesta Carter, has been found guilty of a doping infringement.
China weightlifters lose golds from 2008 Games after IOC retesting
Liu Chunhong, Cao Lei and Chen Xiexia tested positive for human growth hormone in IOC retests from the 2008 Olympic Games
August 2016
Russia stripped of women’s 4x100m relay gold medal from Beijing Olympics
Russia has been stripped of a gold medal from the 2008 Olympics after the athlete Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for steroids in reanalysis of drug samples
July 2016
IOC announces another 45 failed drug tests from 2008 and 2012 Olympics
A further 45 athletes have tested positive for banned substances after a second set of samples provided at the London and Beijing Olympics were reanalysed, the International Olympic Committee has announced
May 2016
Australian walker Jared Tallent awards himself mock Olympic medal – video
Javelin star Goldie Sayers calls for Russia to be 'properly punished'
GB athletes set to pick up 2008 Olympic medals won by Russian dope cheats
Russian athletes ‘likely to have tested positive at 2008 Olympics’
May 2015
BHP Billiton fined US$25m for gift trips to Beijing Olympics for foreign officials
US Securities and Exchange Commission says mining giant violated US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when it paid for government officials to attend Games
September 2014
Greenslade
Chinese government makes life difficult for international journalists
Communist party erodes 2008 Olympics reforms
July 2014
Beijing Olympics gold medallist Emma Snowsill calls time on triathlon career
Australia's sole Olympic triathlon champion Emma Snowsill has officially called time on her storied career
October 2013
Architecture and design blog
Propaganda artists from North Korea paint a rose-tinted China
The Beautiful Future sees icons of Beijing's skyline reimagined by a team of propaganda painters in Pyongyang
January 2013
British Olympic rowing silver medallist Acer Nethercott dies, aged 35
Acer Nethercott, who won a silver medal as the British men's eight cox at the 2008 Olympic Games, has died
