Nothing about the 2008 Olympics has been left to chance - Beijing is to ready for the Olympic Games schedule on August 8 ~ 24, 2008.

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The Super GT International Series Malaysia is the only leg of the Japan Super GT Championship Series held outside Japan since 2002. It is the biggest car racing series in Japan and its popularity has attracted followers among car enthusiasts through out Asian region. This year’s edition of this Championship Series will be held at the Sepang International Circuit from June 20 to 22, 2008.

The race cars, which are the sports cars that people admire, are driven by first-class drivers from Japan and foreign countries covering a total distance of 300 km on the Sepang International Circuit. To add spice to this intense event, spectators are greeted by the familiar and anticipated sight of the race queens. With over 100 race queens gracing the Sepang International Circuit during the Super GT International Series, fans are not only rewarded with a race to remember, but race queens to remember too. Sound good?

In 2007, De Oliveira and Seiji Ara from Woodone Advan Clarion Z team won the GT500 class, and Kazuya Oshima and Hiroaki Ishiura from Apr MR-S team won the GT300 class. How about this year? Come down to watch the babes!

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The Olympic Games have long represented ideals of humanity’s highest callings - a universal quest for peace, moral integrity, and an exalted mix of mind, body, and spirit that transcends culture. From the outset of the modern games, its organizers have looked to ancient Greece as the source of those ideals. However, with the integrity of sports now threatened by corruption, commercialism, and doping - not to mention the wider problem of terrorism and war - those ideals appear in peril. Yet were they ever truly real, even in ancient Olympia? Maybe not. Will we see another games boycott this year?

1956 Melbourne Olympics

The games has been boycotted by the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland because of the repression of the Hungarian by the Stalin government of Soviet Union. On the other side of the world, Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon boycotted the games due to the Suez Crisis (a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel).

1976 Montreal Olympics

The boycott was due to the participation of New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team to play rugby in South Africa early in the year (South Africa had been banned from the Olympics since 1964 due to its apartheid policies). Congo’s official Jean Claude Ganga led a boycott of 28 African nations as the IOC refused to bar the New Zealand team.

Some of the nations had already participated, however, as the teams withdrew only after the first day. From Southern and Central Africa, only Senegal and Ivory Coast took part. Both Iraq and Guyana also opted to join the Congolese-led boycott.

1980 Moscow Olympics

The games boycott was part of a package of actions to protest against the December 1979 Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. The boycott reduced the number of nations participating to only 81, the lowest number of nations to compete since 1956.

The United States-led boycott was joined in by other sixty-five countries including Japan, West Germany, China and Canada. Notably, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece supported the boycott but allowed their athletes to participate.

The United Kingdom and France sent a much smaller delegation of athletes than usual. Nevertheless, the delegation of the United Kingdom was the largest among Western Europe, with 170 athletes applying to compete. Spain, Italy, Sweden, Iceland and Finland were other principal nations representing Western Europe.

1984 Los Angeles Olympics

The 1984 Summer Olympics took place in Los Angeles, United States of America, with 14 nations missing due to the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and several others for other reasons.

On May 8, 1984 the Soviet Union issued a statement, which the country would boycott the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to “chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria being whipped up in the United States”. 13 Soviet allies joined the boycott. Iran was the only country to boycott both Moscow and Los Angeles.

What will happen to the 2008 Beijing Olympics? With the current issues on human rights, will we see another Olympics boycott? For me, we shouldn’t mix politics and sports.

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South Korea’s Park Sung Hwan and double Lee Yong-dae-Jung Jae-sung won the men titles in the USD125,000 Badminton Asia Championships 2008 (BAC) tournament concluded recently in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Badminton was invented long ago; badminton originated from a game played in China in 500 BC. “Ti Jian Zi”, as it was called then was played with the feet and a shuttlecock.

Five centuries later a game called battledore (the old racquets) and shuttlecock became very popular in China, Japan, India and Greece. In the 16th century the European nobility adopted as a past time the “jeu de Volant (French) for “wheel game”, as opposed to the jeu de paume (palm game), which gave birth to tennis and consisted of a small ball hit with the palm of the hand. But it was the Poona, and Indian game brought to England in the 19th century.

A little-known fact about badminton is that it demands high fitness levels from its players in addition to agility, speed and accuracy.

A badminton shuttle has known to clock in excess of 180 mph (289.7 km/hour). It shall have 16 feathers fixed in a cork base covered in kid leather. Interestingly, the best badminton shuttlecocks are made from feathers from the left wing of a goose.

Badminton players need to possess quick response and agility. With badminton matches lasting even up to a couple of hours, it is little wonder that badminton players need to have rigorous training to build up stamina and concentration. In addition, quick reflexes and rapid hand-eye coordination are a prerequisite for any aspiring badminton player. Badminton, unlike most other racquet sports does not use a ball but a shuttlecock that cannot touch the ground during a rally.

Look at these amazing statistics comparing a badminton match with a tennis match. Badminton provides a vigorous cardiovascular workout for the player. In fact, the Department of Physical Education at Baylor University, Texas, United States describes it as ‘one of the finest conditioning game activities available’. A statistical comparison reveals the following:

It is not an expensive sport. It is a sport that people from very young to senior citizens can enjoy!