Ellesse Andrews has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in this year's King's Birthday Honours.

The current American-Chinese Olympic rivalry is part of a geopolitical sporting duopoly that has existed since around 2004. Though the U.S. tends to win, when Beijing hosted the Games in 2008 ...

After the race, a tearful Sun accused Horton of playing mind games ... of “winning honor” at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. In 2004, the website of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games ...

The maturation of China's Olympic mindset is also evident in the increased emphasis on the overall experience of the Games. The Beijing 2008 Olympics were a milestone, showcasing China's ability ...

Tom Daley will on Monday compete in an historic fifth Olympic Games, 16 years after making his debut aged 14 at Beijing 2008. Now 30 ... I know I had it in my mind that I wanted to go to five ...

Beijing spent more than $40 billion for the 2008 Summer Games, Sochi spent upward of $50 billion for the 2014 Winter Games and Rio’s costs approached $20 billion for the 2016 Summer Olympics, he ...

Of course, always bear in mind that a rare coin is ... Carrying on the sporting theme, the Olympic centenary £2 marked 100 years of the modern games in 2008. There are 910,000 in circulation ...

Xi and Macron called for an “Olympic truce” — a stop to global fighting during the Olympic Games in Paris this ... invasion of Georgia during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

When Jason Lezak entered the water for the United States on the anchor leg of the United States’ 400 freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing ... entered my mind for a split second ...