Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/2008 Summer Olympics/1

2008 Summer Olympics

 * • [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment/2008_Summer_Olympics/1&action=watch Watch article reassessment page] • Most recent review
 * Result: Kept - I have fixed the issues. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:18, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

An article that's reported to have "Potentially dated statements (2008), ... (December 2018), Unsourced passages need footnotes (July 2021)" on the good article cleanup listing page. Some uncited material looks to be among others along with the legacy section reportedly needing updates. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:54, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The 2008 Beijing Olympics caused traditional Hutong neighborhoods to be cleared to construct modern Olympic stadiums. In an effort to ensure success for the Games, the government invested billions in building new infrastructure, although clearance to tiny, outdated neighborhoods in Beijing called hutongs resulted (Petrun). Jim Yardley, a New York Times reporter interviewed Pan Jinyu, a 64-year-old local resident: "They [the government] don't want foreigners to see this scarred old face." Feng Shuqin and her husband, Zheng Zhanlin, had lived in their house for 50 years, and the family had owned the property before the Communists took control in 1949. The government, trying to clear the area, offered them to move with a compensatory sum of US$175,000, but the family insisted the land was worth US$1.4 million (Yardley). Michael Meyer, an American who lives in the hutongs, reported that 500,000 residents were relocated from their homes before the Olympics began (Meyer).
 * the Uniforms and Officials section
 * Look of the games sections