Inside the Beijing Olympics

Inside the Beijing Olympics
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As the only American in the senior management team of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, Jeff Ruffolo takes you behind the scenes and into a world no one has ever before witnessed. This remarkable, first-person account of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games is a riveting narrative taking you inside the greatest Olympics ever!<br><br>This true story recounts the author&#39;s effort to perfect the broadcasting of NCAA Volleyball on the fledgling Internet and commercial radio stations throughout the Western USA and how he parlayed that experience into becoming America&#39;s voice of Olympic Volleyball at the 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and then finally securing a position with the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee.<br><br>Follow the author as he maneuvers alone through unchartered and perilous waters in The People&#39;s Republic of China to become the Senior Expert of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and the personal challenges he faced as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Media Center managed one global media crisis after another.<br><br>Be captivated by this fascinating tale of political intrigue, mystery and magic as you too will be transported … Inside the Beijing Olympics.

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Jeff PhD Ruffolo. Inside the Beijing Olympics

Foreword

Chapter 1. The House on Nomar Street

Chapter 2. Radio Days

Chapter 3. The Olympic Games Come to America

Chapter 4. The (Soon to Be) Greatest Nation on Earth

Chapter 5. How I Got The Job - Part One

Chapter 6. How I Got The Job - Part Deux

Chapter 7. Welcome to My World

Chapter 8. The Three Stooges

Chapter 9. Meet The Press

Chapter 11. Rest in Peace

Chapter 12. Tiananmen Square

Chapter 13. The Bible Story

Chapter 14. Somewhere Over Stuttgart

Chapter 15. Red Alert!

Chapter 16. The Olympic Games Comes to China

Chapter 17. Four Years Later

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I never wanted to write this book.

About halfway through the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, I toyed with the idea of writing the true story of my experiences as the lone American in the senior management team of the Olympics in China and mentioned this to many of the international journalists there working covering the Games. Unanimously I was asked – no - begged to put pen to paper and let the world know what it was like to be the only American inside the Chinese Communist Government-orchestrated Olympic Games.

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No more searchlights, no more music.

No fun.

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