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In the shadow of Olympic venues, Brian Williams has anchored NBC's "Nightly News" this week in a city he calls Bay-jing.

Yet Bob Costas, Meredith Vieira and many of NBC's sports announcers seem to be working in a different, more exotic place: Bay-zhing.

So which is it?

Williams is right, if you talk to experts in the Chinese language. He's even recorded something about the pronunciation puzzle for NBC's Web site, although it doesn't seem to be required viewing for everyone at the network.

"It's been annoying me for quite awhile, honestly," said S. Robert Ramsey, a college professor and author of "The Language of China."

He's not alone, and it isn't just NBC at fault. "For you mousse-coiffed, Mr. Gravitas TV anchor types and you sotto voce public radio types, please oh please stop saying 'Bay-zheeng,' " wrote Kaiser Kuo, who works for a China-based ad agency and wrote an online guide for journalists covering the Olympics.

Beijing used to be known as Peking to English speakers. It officially changed in 1949. The change came into popular usage in the West when the Chinese began using Beijing on all official documents in the 1980s.

By the numbers

48

years between medals for Singapore after it was guaranteed the second medal in the country's history when the women's table tennis team defeated South Korea in the semifinals Friday. The country will go for its first gold ever in Sunday's final against China.

Wrestling with his anger

• The IOC is considering disciplining a Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden who dropped his bronze medal on the mat in disgust as he left the medals ceremony Thursday. Ara Abrahamian was still angry about losing to eventual gold medalist, Andrea Minguzzi of Italy, in the semifinals. Abrahamian had to be restrained from going after the matside officials following the loss. He stormed away from the interview area and slammed a door to the dressing rooms so hard it shook an entire wall. Friends had to talk him into competing for the bronze.

She said it

"This is why we train so many hours a day and we don't have lives most of the time. We play for these kinds of moments."

Outside hitter Logan Tom, after the U.S. women's volleyball team's 3-2 win over China on Friday