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The official name of 2008 Summer Olympics which were held at Beijing was

  1. Games of XXIX Olympiad

  2. The Beijing Olympiad

  3. Games of Beijing

  4. None of these
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The official name of Olympic Games follows a standard format: 'Games of [Roman numeral] Olympiad'. Beijing 2008 was the 29th modern Olympic Games, hence 'Games of XXIX Olympiad'. The naming convention doesn't reference the host city directly in the official title.

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