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Merritt London 2012 doping win was fair: Lawyer

LaShawn Merritt's lawyer insisted on Thursday that the Olympic 400 metres champion's appeal victory against a London 2012 doping ban was a triumph for other suspended athletes who could now find their Olympic dreams reborn. The [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: athletes' families to receive support ...

A series of education campaigns to help family and friends cope with the behaviour of the athletes will be rolled out throughout the UK by Olympic sponsor Proctor and Gamble and supported by the British Olympic Association and British Par [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: first British boxers qualify for Games

Light-welterweight Stalker beat Russia's Alexander Solyanikov 17-9 to book his place in the quarter-finals, automatically qualifying for the Games. It was close after the first round Stalker and Solyanikov level at 3-3, but the Briton [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics 2012: record attempts could suffer with wind...

Blustery conditions preceedings as Lord Sebatian Coe, chairman of Games organisers Locog, and Hannah England, silver medallist at the recent World Championships, put the rust-red coloured track to the test for the first time. The winds we [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics 2012: Colin Moynihan vows 'no compromise' on...

Moynihan said drug cheats like Dwain Chambers and David Millar understood the consequences of their doping and he strongly supported more than 90 per cent of British and Northern Irish athletes who do not want them in the Olympic team. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Phelps back in pool, training for 2012 Olympics

It's still September, and Michael Phelps has already been training for six weeks. He couldn't say that in any of the last three years since his record-setting Beijing Olympics. The 16-time medalist is swimming more yards per week [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Zara Phillips playing the waiting game

Zara Phillips, 30, has had a busy fortnight – she finished in first place at the Ballindenisk International Trials in County Cork on September 18, riding her young horse Lord Lauries, and also placed tenth on High Kingdom at the Lan [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics 2012: Will Pakistan end medal drought this t...

Will Pakistan win back the Olympic glory or will it remain just a mediocre side? Will Pakistan watch one of the top-notchers, Australia, Germany or Holland, sneaking away with the title? Pakistan Hockey Federation officials and the fans [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Boxing body refutes London 2012 fix allegation

Amateur boxing's world governing body has dismissed as 'preposterous and utterly untrue' allegations that Azerbaijan was promised two gold medals at next year's London Olympics in exchange for a loan of millions of dollars [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 organisers begin to welcome Olympics volunteer w...

A tennis enthusiast from Wales who will help ensure the Olympic event at Wimbledon runs smoothly and an accountant from London who coaches athletics in the shadow of the Olympic Stadium are among the first 10,000 people to be confirmed as [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 - Sailing expectations played down

Ben Ainslie and 10 others are the first names to be confirmed on next year's 550-strong British team, with selections in seven of the 10 sailing classes now locked down. In over 100 years of Olympic history, Great Britain has consiste [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics - a once in a lifetime opportunity for ...

The London 2012 Olympics will be a prime opportunity for travel, hospitality and retail companies to engage with a variety of new customers from all over the world. London is a central and more accessible location for the Olympic Games an [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympic watch: Phillips edging closer to spot at...

Zara Phillips is slowly but surely putting herself back in contention for a place in next year’s Games a year after retiring her world title-winning horse Toytown. At the end of a week of media storm over her husband Mike Tinda [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Gordon the tramp's bid to carry the Olympic flame gets surge...

The bid to get a popular tramp to carry the Olympic torch is on track after a staggering 18,000 members joined the campaign - and even had T-shirts printed. Supertramp Gordon Roberts, 82, from Bournemouth, Dorset, has been nominated as an [...]