Viewers Guide to the 2008 Olympics

According to the endorsed Olympics website, there will be 302 complete sporting events encompassing 28 sports at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This year one new sporting discipline has been added while four new events acquire been added. With so several events going on, it is essential to peruse magazines for detailed Olympic Amusement coverage.

The isolated new sporting discipline added to the Olympics this year is BMX or bicycle motorcross racing. There testament be two BMX events, men's and women's individual races. The races will be a traditional 8 man, 1 lap heat. The specially-built race track features the highest starting rise in the world-a 26 foot plunge.

BMX racing is one of many biking events including road, track and height bike events. The roster for the Contingent U.S.A. BMX is Mike Day, Kyle Bennett, Jill Kinter and Donny Robinson. Study exceeding about these athletes and the sport of BMX racing in Sports Illustrated, Men's Diary and ESPN The Magazine.

In an effort to boost female participation in the international games, the International Olympic Commitee has added two women's events. The added events are the women's 3000 meter Steeplechase and women's gang events in the foil and sabre fencing disciplines; approximately 130 additional female athletes will participate in these events. For more on women athletes at the Olympics, read coverage in Good Housekeeping, Runner's World and Fitness magazines.

There is extremely a new swimming event-the 10k Marathon Swim, a 6.2 mile race that will take about two hours. It is both a men's and women's event and will be held at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

Table Tennis, which debuted at the Olympics in 1988 and now involves 172 athletes, will face a chicken feed this year. The Doubles event will be replaced with a team event, which will include 32 teams.

In its Aug 2008 issue, Men's Funny book magazine recommends the following Olympic events: women's 50-meter freestyle in swimming on August 15, the men's 100-meter finals on August 16, women's beach volleyball on August 20, the decathlon on August 22, boxing finals on August 23 and men's basketball finals on August 23. The men's periodical editors highly reccomend these events and vow them to be the most arousing match-ups of the games.

Crowded men's magazines allying Men's Health, Maxum and Muscle & Fitness and sports magazines like Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine are currently featuring Olympic athlete profiles as atom of their Olympic coverage.

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