{"id":318,"date":"2008-08-08T07:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/318"},"modified":"2008-08-06T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:01:51","slug":"olympic-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/318","title":{"rendered":"Olympic fever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s time for the summer Olympics, being held in Beijing, People&#8217;s Republic of China, on August 8-24, starting with the opening ceremony (on television Friday evening).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/swimmer.jpg\" alt=\"swimmer clip art\" align=\"left\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/fencing.jpg\" alt=\"fencing clip art\" align=\"right\" height=\"50\" width=\"80\" \/>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/\">International Olympic Committee&#8217;s official web site<\/a>, which lists the <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.olympic.org\/pdf\/en_report_1056.pdf\">summer events<\/a> and provides details about the medals and other trappings of the games, the history and goals of the Olympic Movement, and information about athletes and future Olympic sites.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the official site of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.beijing2008.cn\/\">2008 Beijing Olympics<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.beijing2008.cn\/schedule\/\">2008 competition schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the Olympics in Library resources.<\/p>\n<p>For example, do a subject keyword search in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> for <strong>olympics<\/strong> and find titles such as  <em>Olympic turnaround: how the Olympic Games stepped back from the brink of extinction to become the world\u2019s best known brand<\/em> <strong><font color=\"#808080\"><small>(3rd-Floor Main Collection, GV721.5 .P34 2006)<\/small><\/font><\/strong> and <em>A picture history of the Olympics<\/em> <strong><font color=\"#808080\"><small>(3rd-Floor Main Oversize, GV721.5 .C63 1972)<\/small><\/font><\/strong>. You can also find materials on specific events, such as fencing. Or, search for articles on the 2008 Olympics in databases such as <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/pqdauto?COPT=REJTPUc1\">ProQuest Newspapers<\/a> (a possible search is <strong>olympics and beijing<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s time for the summer Olympics, being held in Beijing, People&#8217;s Republic of China, on August 8-24, starting with the opening ceremony (on television Friday evening). Visit the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s official web site, which lists the summer events &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1077,1078,917,1076,268],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-athletics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-olympics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}