Search:




Sign up for Updates!

* Email
First Name
	* = Required Field




Subscribe in a reader

• Categories

  • Art
  • Blueprint
  • Change Clothes
  • Contributors
  • Design
  • Films
  • Flavor In Your Ear
  • FYInterviews
  • Gadgets
  • Get Your Mind Right
  • Models
  • Music News
  • News
  • On The Go
  • Party
  • Press
  • Room & Board
  • Sew Necessary
  • Site Seeing
  • Sneak Peek
  • Toys
  • Uncategorized
  • VIDEO GAMES
  • Walk This Way
  • Watch Out

Friendz & Family

• Bijules NYC
• Caliroots
• Corner $tore Hero
• Duck-sauce
• Five Star Japan
• Freshness
• GFC NY
• GRBG/garbege
• GRBG/garbege myspace
• HighSnobiety
• Inqmnd
• Karmaloop
• Liful
• Local Strangler
• LRG
• Marcus Troy
• Phenomenon
• Satchel of Gravel
• Save Darfur
• Shin Tanaka
• SlamxHype
• Stadium Japan
• Swagger
• SwaggerxLife
• The Brooklyn Circus
• The Gluttony
• William Yan
• WRG? MAG

Beijing 2008

Filed Under News

On the occasion of the 500-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) unveiled the Games’ medals. The medals are designed with inspiration from “bi”, China’s ancient jade piece inscribed with dragon pattern. The medals, made of gold and jade, symbolize nobility and virtue and are embodiment of traditional Chinese values of ethics and honor.

The medals are 70mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness. On their obverse side, the medals adopt the standard design prescribed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) — a drawing that represents the winged goddess of victory Nike and Panathinaikos Arena, while on their reverse side, the medals are inlaid with jade with the Beijing Games emblem engraved in the metal centerpiece.

Zakh

 Email This Post

Comments