17 August 2008

Stories from 17 August 2008

Korea: Georgia Crisis

  17 August 2008

While Koreans enthusiastically follow the Beijing Olympics, they are also busy studying what’s going on between Russia and Georgia and what the attack means to world politics. It has been one of the main topics among bloggers.

Serbia: Milorad Čavić's Silver Medal

  17 August 2008

Swimmer Milorad Čavić celebrated in his blog the silver medal in 100 metres butterfly that he won on the 14th, coming in second to Michael Phelps by 1/100 of a second in the final which prompted a request for review by the Serbian Swimming Federation.

China: Tracking Olympics stats by wiki

  17 August 2008

Twitter user @davesgonechina points us to the Olympics 2008 Dashboard over at wiki site Zoho, and of the stats there notes: “Zoho medal count wiki shows China leading in golds because of womens events.”