The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" id="mwAVU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2008 Summer Olympics">29th modern summer Olympic Games</a> took place in Beijing, China until August 24.<sup about="#mwt74" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_8#cite_note-12" id="mwAVY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVc">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt71" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFIOC2018">IOC (2018-04-23). <a class="external text" href="https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/beijing-2008" id="mwB6E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics - Athletes, Medals &amp; Results"</a>. <i id="mwB6I">Olympics.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB6M">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB6Q">2021-06-01</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt71" class="Z3988" id="mwB6U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Olympics.com&amp;rft.atitle=Beijing+2008+Summer+Olympics+-+Athletes%2C+Medals+%26+Results&amp;rft.date=2018-04-23&amp;rft.au=IOC&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Folympics.com%2Fen%2Folympic-games%2Fbeijing-2008&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+8"></span></span>