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In the following calendar for the 2008 Olympic Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. Each bullet in these boxes is an event final, the number of bullets per box representing the number of finals that will be contested on that day. ^[1]

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Opening ceremony

Event competitions

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Event finals

Exhibition gala

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Closing ceremony

August	6th W	7th T	8th F	9th S	10th S	11th M	12th T	13th W	14th T	15th F	16th S	17th S	18th M	19th T	20th W	21st T	22nd F	23rd S	24th S	Gold medals
Ceremonies			●																●
Archery					●	●			●	●										4
Athletics										● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ●	● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ● ●	●	47
Badminton										●	● ●	● ●								5
Baseball																		●		1
Basketball																		●	●	2
Boxing																		● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ●	11
Canoeing							● ●		● ●								● ● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ●		16
Cycling				●	●			● ●		●	● ● ●	●	● ●	● ● ●		● ●	●	●		18
Diving					●	●	●	●				●		●		●		●		8
Equestrian							● ●		●				●	●		●				6
Fencing				●	●	●	●	● ●	●	●	●	●								10
Field hockey																	●	●		2
Football (soccer)																●		●		2
Gymnastics							●	●	●	●		● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●				●	●	18
Handball																		●	●	2
Judo				● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●										14
Modern pentathlon																●	●			2
Rowing											● ● ● ● ● ● ●	● ● ● ● ● ● ●								14
Sailing											● ●	●	● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●				11
Shooting				● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●	●	● ●	●	● ●	●								15
Softball																●				1
Swimming					● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●	● ● ● ●			●	●				34
Synchronized swimming															●			●		2
Table tennis												●	●				●	●		4
Taekwondo															● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●		8
Tennis											● ●	● ●								4
Triathlon													●	●						2
Volleyball																●	●	●	●	4
Water polo																●			●	2
Weightlifting				●	● ●	● ●	● ●	● ●		● ●	●	●	●	●						15
Wrestling							● ●	● ●	● ● ●		● ●	● ●		● ●	● ●	● ● ●				18
August	6th W	7th T	8th F	9th S	10th S	11th M	12th T	13th W	14th T	15th F	16th S	17th S	18th M	19th T	20th W	21st T	22nd F	23rd S	24th S	302

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Beijing sources:

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2004 Images:

• hockey
• beachvolleyball
• beachvolleyball
• volleyball
• handball
• tennis
• tennis
• tabletennis
• tabletennis
• diving
• hockey
• basketball

The following proposal is one of many different ideas as to how to make Wikipedia's Requests for adminship process as fair as possible for both the candidate and the integrity of Wikipedia as a community.

Overview

This proposal, first envisioned at the reform proposal page by Carcharoth suggests that RfA use a pool of randomly selected users as a jury of sorts to express their opinions on whether the candidate should receive adminship or not. By making the process random, the hope is that the candidate will be reviewed by a wide variety of people, not just those who frequent the RfA page with a set agenda.

The randomly selected users (herein referred to as "the jury") will be notified that they have been chosen to review the editor to see if he or she is fit for adminship. Those who wish to abstain from taking part may certainly do so. As well, those who have not been picked may also comment (and would be encouraged to do so), but their opinions would only be there to assist the members of the jury in making their decisions. Each person who is chosen gets to weigh in their own opinion (they do not have to come to a unanimous decision), and should deeply comment on why they have decided that way. Given that a set percentage of those users first contacted actually give feedback at the RfA, an admin will close the RfA if he or she feels that the arguments for one side outweigh the arguments for the other side.

Specifics

The electorate for this random pool of users will be all users who have (what specifications?; either edited in the past X days, or have at least X amount of edits). From this list of users, updated (how often?; before each RfA, or each week), 75 users will be randomly pulled by drawing random numbers and having each user assigned to a number (is there an easier system?).

Is this a discussion? A bot could certainly do an editcount check with this new function on users (maybe start at the first user and check every one until you have a pool of 10000 for that week?) then save them to a file (or wiki page) then, when an RfA comes up, it could generate 100-200 random numbers and pull those users out, post that list to the RfA talk page, and send a message to each user. Another way could be to generate those userid numbers, look each up, and then wait until we get 100-200 qualifying users, then post them? I can look into both possibilities, and I'll watch this. -- ST47 Talk 21:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

It could be a discussion, though really we should use that "discussion" tag up the top... Why don't you and Jared merge the work you've done on 'my' proposal, and then we can rename it the Jared and ST47 proposal? :-) Seriously, a central page for this would be better rather than having stuff split between here, that page ST47 produced and WT:RFA. Carcharoth 15:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

As the 2008 Summer Olympics approach, editors unfamiliar with our Olympics articles are highly encouraged to review pages from past games, browse archives at the Olympics WikiProject, and raise questions on the project's discussion page before editing, so that we can document these games in a more efficient manner.

Participating nations

Athletes from 16 nations competed in the first Winter Olympic Games.

Austria (2  1  0 )   Belgium (0  0  1 )   Canada (1  0  0 )   Czechoslovakia (0  0  0 )   Finland (4  4  3 )   France (0  0  3 )   Great Britain (1  1  2 )   Hungary (0  0  0 )

Italy (0  0  0 )   Latvia (0  0  0 )   Norway (4  7  6 )   Poland (0  0  0 )   Switzerland (2  0  1 )   Sweden (1  1  0 )   United States (1  2  0 )   Yugoslavia (1  0  0 )

Event summary

“	This historic stadium has given me strength, because it is a great feeling to see the Acropolis next to you.	”
—  Wietse van Alten [1]

For the sixth Olympics in a row, the South Korean team came out as the clear victor, taking three out of the four gold medals in Athens. ^[2] Korean archers set new world records in the women's individual ( Park Sung-Hyun) and team (Park, Yun Mi-Jin, and Lee Sung-Jin) ranking rounds and the men's individual ranking round ( Im Dong Hyun), ^[3] though none of those scores counted as Olympic records because the ranking round was held before the opening ceremony. ^[4] Olympic records were broken in both the men's and women's 36-arrow 1/16 and 1/8 rounds combined (by Chen Szu Yuan of Chinese Taipei and Yun of Korea), as well as in the men's 18-arrow match (by Park Kyung Mo of Korea) and 36-arrow finals rounds combined (by Tim Cuddihy of Australia). ^[4]

In the men's events, the Korean team shot 12 maximum scores of 10 to win the gold medal against Chinese Taipei 251-245. Losing by two points, the United States failed to fend of the Ukraine team to capture the bronze. ^[5] The event causing the most upset however was the men's individual, the only event that the Korean team has never won and yet again failed to clinch. Defending champion Simon Fairweather was ousted from the competition in a first round loss due to blustery weather conditions. ^[1] The wind caused some archers like Fairweather to make one-point shots, and its strength even caused others to miss their targets completely. ^[6] The final matches of this event also saw competitors coming close in score, with Italian Marco Galiazzo beating the Japanese Hiroshi Yamamoto by only two points to win gold. Even closer still was the bronze medal match, in which Britain's Laurence Godfrey was outshot 112-113 by seventeen-year-old Australian Tim Cuddihy, ^[7] who himself only managed to get into the semifinals by one point. ^[8]

The woman's individual event fell easily to the Koreans; they have won this event continuously since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ^[9] and swept all three medals at the 2000 Olympics. ^[10] Though both gold and silver fell to Korean archers, Alison Williamson captured the bronze medal, giving Britain its first medal in archery since 1992. ^[10] In the team event, the Korean women beat the Chinese team 241-240 to win the gold medal, making this their eleventh straight women's team championship win. Taiwan easily took the bronze medal over France. ^[11]

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