* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

The Danish flag at the medal ceremony for the Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit | men's team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

" GATT and the Cold War ," Journal of Cold War Studies, Summer 2008, 10 # 3 pp 78-109

* 2008: All Summer Long Tour ( 4 nights at Pine Knob with Uncle Kracker & Rev Run )

** 2008 Most Attictive Track for " All Summer Long " ( Nominated )

" Studio Ghibli said the production time would be about 20 months, with release slated for Summer 2008.

Interior hall of Beijing Capital International Airport before the 2008 Summer Olympics

Events are held at the World Rowing Championships and were also held at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

The special police forces trained to protect the public during the 2008 Summer Olympics used the Segway for mobility.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, seven of these events were for men while only three were for women.

* Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics-Men's Madison

* Kyle Hamilton, gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics in men's eights in rowing

A recent example of weather control was China's preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

* Wilma Rudolph's story on the website of the 2008 Summer Olympics

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The opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, China.

Summer of Night ( 1991 ) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, Illinois.

... reminiscent of the playful, folky moods of The Beatles, Small Faces, and Donovan ( though closer listening would reveal the turmoil within the band and L. A. during the Summer of Love ) ..."

On March 26, 2010, in an interview with The Globe and Mail, Lifeson reconfirmed that the band had already written a half-dozen songs and that there was the potential for two supporting tours, one planned for Summer 2010 and a more extensive tour planned for Summer 2011.

The sound itself was heard during a segment of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as rock band Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played to the stadium.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

* Summer ( probable ) – Yermak begins the Russian conquest of the Khanate of Sibir with a band of 1, 636 men.

On April 30, 2011, Anthrax headlined in the Philippines for the first time in the annual Pulp Summer Slam along with Death Angel, Hellyeah and UAE's heavy metal band Nervecell.

" The band also announced many confirmed dates for a Summer Amphitheater Tour of the US.

The Texas Country band Turnpike Troubadours recorded a song entitled " Long, Hot Summer Day "

The Israeli band Orphaned Land, seen here performing live at the 2007 Summer Breeze Open Air, is an early proponent of folk metal from outside Europe.

The band had an opportunity to play for the Summer, and although Randy was still enrolled in college, he pleaded his case with Jacksonville State, and was able to finish in absentia.

The band was asked to play the entire Summer as the house band, requiring them to move to Myrtle Beach.

The band played several European concerts in July 2010 and at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan in August 2011.

On July 1 – 3 of 2011, the band Phish hosted Superball IX, a three-day music festival on the same grounds of the Summer Jam of ' 73.

In late March 2004, Van Halen and Sammy Hagar announced that Hagar would reunite with the band for a new compilation release and a Summer concert tour of the USA.

The band halted work on the album in order to tour behind the release of Glider in Summer 1990.

The band went on to play a slew of festivals in Summer and Fall of 2008, which included the Roskilde Festival ( Denmark, July 3 – 6 ), Festival Internacional de Benicàssim ( Spain, July 17 – 20.

In 1967, just weeks before graduation, Summer left for New York where she was a member of the blues-rock band, Crow.

She left the band in late Summer, 2007 and was replaced by the woman she replaced, Ramsey.

The band supported the album with a 60-day Spring 1987 tour, followed by the 50-day Summer " FinALL " tour, so-called due to Aukerman's decision to leave the band to pursue a career in biochemistry.

This album also included their hit cover song, originally recorded by Don Henley " The Boys of Summer ", which much to the dismay of the band became their " accidental " second single after a radio station, KROQ in Los Angeles started playing it, even though the band had already chosen the song " My Reply " as their second single.

With Sheb Wooley, The Champs, Link Wray and his Ray Men, Frankie Avalon, The Kalin Twins, and Dicky Doo & The Don ' ts, Jan & Arnie were a featured act on the Summer Dance Party that toured the US East Coast, including Pennyslvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in July 1958.

* Nelson Starr – ( 1997 ) Friend and occasional side-man for John & Mary, Buffalonian Starr toured as a fill-in bassist for approximately two weeks during Summer tours in 1997.

In June 1964 Burke toured with James Brown, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, and Garnett Mimms on the Summer Shower of Stars Tour, and performed on June 20 at the Donnelly Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.

In Summer 1978, they toured Germany for two weeks.

Brown toured in Summer 1998 with a band that included Ibrahim, Inder Mathura ( percussion ), Simon Moore ( drums ), and Sylvan Richardson ( bass ), including performances at the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival.

This lineup of Gorky's recorded and toured two more albums-How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart ( 2001 ) and Sleep / Holiday ( 2003, on the Sanctuary Music label ).

To promote the album, The Rocket Summer toured the US and Japan.

The Rocket Summer has toured the US, Canada, the UK, France and Japan, and has played at festivals such as Glastonbury Festival, Summer Sonic Festival, Austin City Limits, SXSW, The Bamboozle, and the 2007 and 2010 Vans Warped Tour.

The band toured through late 2008 and 2009 with this lineup, prior to announcing Summer 2009 dates with Silmaeth, a French musician, as a second touring guitar.

The band has toured regularly since Summer 2009.

From the late nineties, Al Jardine toured and recorded with his Endless Summer Band, in a line-up that comprised several musicians who toured with The Beach Boys, including Billy Hinsche of Dino, Desi and Billy, Ed Carter, Bobby Figueroa, and Jardine's sons, Matt and Adam.

They toured the U. S. and Canada performing with Brad Paisley in 2005 and in 2006 – 2007 with Kenny Chesney on his Flip Flop Summer Tour.

With new bassist Brandon Schwartzel, Rooney toured again nationally in Summer 2010, supporting Hanson for several weeks of their tour.

The band finished a Europe tour in May 2009 and toured the US ( with Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains and Smile Smile ), UK, and Canada at certain music festivals during the Summer.

In June and July they toured North America as part of the Summer Slaughter Tour with Necrophagist, Darkest Hour, Suffocation, Blackguard, Dying Fetus, Beneath the Massacre, Origin, and Winds of Plague.

He also toured with the band during The Brutal Language Tour and Summer of Hell Tour in 2006.

The band toured Canada along with Pilate, and played the South by Southwest festival in Texas, and the 2005 Summer Sonic Festival in Japan.

( In the summer of 2010, Thompson served as director of the Kobe Bryant / Nike Summer Basketball Camp which toured China.

This line-up also toured the U. S. during December 2001 and Summer 2002 without Hinojosa.

Stone toured with Sisters in the Spirit in 2007 ; toured in Europe in May / June 2008 ; toured on various Summer Festivals in the U. S. in summer 2008 ( including three headlining June shows ); and two in the Netherlands in August 2008.

In Summer of 2005 and 2009 a 1st / 2nd rugby team toured Canada, visiting Calgary, Edmonton and Banff amongst other places.