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Ultimate Olympics

Genres: News & Actuality, Documentary Series

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Ultimate Olympics is a documentary series produced for The Discovery Channel which chronicles Beijing's transformation into the ultimate Olympic city ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in that city.

The series premiered in South Africa on DStv's The Discovery Channel on Saturday 2 August 2008, at 13h45. There are three hour-long episodes in the series.

Synopsis

The spirit of competition and the mounting excitement surrounding the 2008 Olympic Games is galvanizing everyone involved in elite sport the world over, and electrifying the host city of Beijing.

As the world watches and all of China mobilises for Beijing 2008, Discovery Channel investigates what goes on behind the scenes and exactly how the nation of more than one billion people is gearing up for the 2008 Olympics, in Ultimate Olympics.

Across three episodes, the series chronicles Beijing’s transformation into the ultimate Olympic city.

Beijing’s mission is to set the stage for an Olympics that would be hi-tech, green and distinctively Chinese. This is China’s chance to seize the world stage. With the country in the world’s spotlight, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Can the people of Beijing clinch this “gold”?


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