Beijing Workers' Stadium welcomes soccer fans at its reopening in April last year. Some 3,712 square meters of photovoltaic panels are installed inside a golden, illuminated collar along the roof.

Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and as such, needs some big stadiums to accommodate its billions of fans. Here, ...

The Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games was held on September 6, 2008 in the Beijing National Stadium in front of more than 90,000 spectators, officially beginning at 20:00 local ...

The National Speed Skating Oval, known as the "Ice Ribbon," will host its first national-level short track speed skating ...

The "Good luck Beijing" series includes 14 top-level international sporting events and several integrative competitions, covering the whole range of the Olympic sports. Based on the plan for these ...

The stadium is still open to visitors today and even offers tours where guests can see what it was like to compete there. The ...

The Chinese capital will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Wheelchair Curling at the National Aquatics Centre, Para Ice Hockey at the National Indoor Stadium, and the Paralympic and Olympic ...

Reuters Beijing's Birds Nest stadium will be the centre of China's Olympics again but it's a very different period for the country One of them, Zhang Yihe told the BBC: "At first I felt angry ...

the crowd - including children and grandparents - poured out of the stadium and filled the streets of Beijing's Sanlitun district, some with their faces painted. The mood was jubilant. People did ...