Zhu Qianwei

Construction of the London 2012 aquatics centre – billed as a rival to Beijing’s eye catching Water Cube – has begun two months early.  

Michael Phelps' epic pursuit of Mark Spitz . The ongoing rivalry between the American and Australian women. Prime-time television coverage back in America. Those elements add up to swimming making quite a splash at the Beijing Olympics. Fittingly, Phelps' second attempt at surpassing Spitz will...  

Michael Phelps' epic pursuit of Mark Spitz. The ongoing rivalry between the American and Australian women.  

Michael Phelps' epic pursuit of Mark Spitz. The ongoing rivalry between the American and Australian women. Those elements add up to swimming making quite a splash at the Beijing Olympics. Fittingly, Phelps' second attempt at surpassing Spitz will ...  

Michael Phelps' epic pursuit of Mark Spitz.  

PARIS- Long-time ridiculed as a sport because of their hair gel, nose clips, fixed smiles and sequins, synchronised swimming has become one of the more colourful highlights of every Summer Olympics.  

The National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest after its unique latticework of interwoven steel, is considered a template for water conservation, with 70 percent of its supply coming from recycled water. Beside the Bird's Nest, the National Aquatics Centre, or the Water Cube, has also been...  

(On Friday), we toured the venues for fencing, water polo, modern pentathlon and team handball, which are the sports our group is covering. We also got to walk around outside the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube, but unfortunately we couldn't get inside. The Bird's Nest is the most amazing...  

Chinese workers clean the exterior of the National Aquatics Center, better known as the Water Cube, near the National Stadium (R), also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing ahead of the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.  

Taiwan-based entertainer Leon Jay Williams will kick off his musical career in the mainland by singing a song written for the Beijing Olympics swimming venue, the Water Cube.  

Olympic venues like the Bird's Nest and Water Cube have the strength to resist major natural disasters, a Beijing official said on Friday.  

NEW YORK and HARBIN, China, July 10, 2008 -- Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. today announced that its power management system has been put into place and will be used by the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Aquatic Center -- or otherwise known as the Water Cube Olympic Swimming...  

From the chilly waters of the Greece's Bay of Zea in 1896 to Beijing's futuristic Water Cube, swimming has come a long way. In its Olympic infancy, the sport held such obscure events as the 100m race for Greek sailors in the Mediterranean Sea and underwater and obstacle races in Paris's River...  

Always formidable in the Olympic pool, the United States will launch a squad of proven performers at Beijing's Water Cube in their bid to maintain their swimming superiority.  

Forget the "Bird's Nest" and the "Water Cube". If you're traveling to China this summer, or even if you are watching the Olympics on television, make sure you look out for a glittering new landmark structure in Beijing.