Beijing - London Olympics

Finally the Beijing Olympics is over in grand fashion. The 16 day sports carnival ends in the Bird’s Nest stadium where it stared. The opening and closing ceremony of this Olympics was grand and made whole world awe struck. More than million volunteers helped in successfully hosting this Olympic Games in spite of many hardships. This Olympics will not only remembered for its grand ceremonies but also for sporting events. 38 world records and 81 Olympic records were broken in these 16 days. There has been many sensational sportsmanship shown in this Olympics. Michael Phelps of USA won 8 gold medals in swimming and his overall gold medal s in Olympics summed up to 14, which surpasses the previous best of 14 held by Spitz. Usain Bolt won the 100m, 200m and 4*100m race all in world record time. The 100m race which took place in this game is considered as best race in the history of Olympics. Yelena of Russia again made the world record again surpassing her own. Like this many many records were broken and new records were created in this Olympics. Last but not the least India won its first individual gold medal in Olympics. Abhinav Bindra took in the gold medal in 10m rifle event, making the country proud. In addition to this Sushil Kumar and Vijendra Kumar won Bronze medals in wrestling and boxing events.

The next Olympics is going to be held in London in 2012. The Olympic flag was formally given to the London mayor by the IOC President. So the world has now started the countdown for London Olympics.