The Beijing Olympic flame arrived in Russia's second biggest city early Friday morning to start the third leg of an unprecedented global torch relay. The Olympic flame, carried in a specially-designed lantern, was flied into St. Petersburg onboard a chartered plane from Turkey's largest city Istanbul.

31.03.2008
The Olympic torch has been re-lit at an elaborate ceremony in Beijing that included President Hu Jintao, signaling the start of a round-the-world torch relay. Hu's participation shows the importance China place on the Olympics, which start August 8, to show a confident, strong China to the world.

13.03.2008
No smoking, no littering and many other no-doings expect Beijing during summer Olympic Games. Beijing authorities intend to put quite a number of restrictions into practice for the time of the Games. Many of those novelties will seem to be rather unpleasant and unusual for many natives of the Chinese capital

08.02.2008
The Chicago Bulls waived forward Viktor Khryapa on Thursday, and additionally came to contract settlement should he clear waivers. According to Russian sports newspaper Viktor Khryapa will most likely return to Russian basketball club CSKA.