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| August 25, 2008 |
Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap
Over the past couple of weeks, in Beijing, China, over 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries participated in 302 events in 28 sports. below are some highlights of the last week in Beijing, and a few shots of the Closing Ceremony last night in the National Stadium. (39 photos total)

Left-to-right: Netherlands Antilles' Churandy Martina, Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, Wallace Spearmon of the US and Britain's Christian Malcolm compete in the men's 200m final at the Bird's Nest National Stadium during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 20, 2008. Bolt went on to win the event, in a world record time of 19.3 seconds. (Olivier Morin/AFP)

Marianne Steinbrecher #3 of Brazil tries to spike the ball past Kim Glass #10, Danielle Scott-Arruda #2 and Tayyiba Haneef-Park #3 of the United States during the women's gold medal volleyball game held at the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium on Day 15 of the 2008 Olympic Games on August 23, 2008 in Beijing. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) #

Angel Valodia Matos of Cuba is led away by his coach after he kicked referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden (at left), when Chelbat disqualified Matos for an extended injury time out during the Men's +80kg bronze medal match against Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan held at the University of Science and Technology Beijing Gymnasium on Day 15 of the 2008 Olympic Games on August 23, 2008 in Beijing. Both Matos and his coach were later banned for life over the incident. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) #

Afonso Domingos and Bernardo Plantier Santos of Portugal (R) and Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau of France compete during the medals race of the Star class at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 21, 2008 in Qingdao. Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson of Britain won gold while Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada of Brazil took silver and Fredrik Loof and Anders Ekstrom claimed bronze. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) #

Afghanistan's Rohullan Nikpai reacts after winning against Juan Antonio Ramos of Spain in the men's -58kg bronze medal taekwondo competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 20, 2008. Nikpai gave Afghanistan its first ever Olympic Games medal when he won the taekwondo men's -58kg bronze medal here August 20. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) #
More links and information
It will be a tough act to follow - boston.com 8/25
Olympics Coverage - Boston.com
Official Site Beijing 2008 Games
2008 Olympics - NYT Topics page

































