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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

London Olympics 2012: Greg Searle on winning silver on Lake ...

Earlier this month I won a silver medal in the GB eight at the world championships in Slovenia. I’d love to have gone one better and been part of the first GB eight ever to be world champions but we weren’t quite quick enough. [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics athletes given anti-doping warning by scient...

Athletes who store their own blood and then inject it back into their bodies for an artificial boost ahead of events, are at risk of being caught by new anti-doping technology, scientists say. Speaking at the British Science Festival i [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Security top concern for London in 2012

Ten years after the 9-11 attacks, many of us wonder: Are we still at risk? And nowhere is that question more pressing than in London, where the 2012 Summer Games will be held. The Olympics are often called the biggest show on earth, an [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: New Zealand's All Blacks have their ha...

I wonder what Danny Boyle was thinking as he watched the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony yesterday. The Oscar-winning director is in charge of the London 2012 Olympic curtain-raiser and it is no exaggeration to suggest that his is easily [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: chief to get £1.5m for 'great Games’

Paul Deighton will be paid a £534,266 top-up to his salary simply for remaining in post until after the Games are complete. The sum will be doubled if they are seen as a “great Games”. Mr Deighton will also be in line fo [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Usain Bolt can set the Games alight - ...

It just reinforced for me how fantastic it could be to have Bolt there. There really is an Ali-like aura about this guy that is now transcending all sports. If I was going into schools four years ago talking about the Olympics, they [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Chance to ensure a victory roll for Br...

However, a common frustration among manufacturers is that their success is not fully recognised in the UK, where the historic image of "dark satanic mills" still exists, and in key export markets abroad, where the UK's manuf [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Lord Moynihan says hosting Games will ...

In an opinion article published today on the US-based website Aroundtherings.com Moynihan said "London has had its wake up call.... I am confident this is what the world will see during London 2012, and the images will be in stark co [...]

Posted On : Aug, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: BMX world champion Mariana Pajon carri...

After dominating the sport of BMX for nine years at world junior level, she outfoxed her rivals in her first senior world championship, winning the elite worlds event in Copenhagen a fortnight ago. But in her home country of Colombia, tho [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Totilas who? British gold heralds new ...

It’s very difficult to express quite how monumental Britain’s first gold medal in dressage actually is. Today in Rotterdam the quartet of Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer, Emile Faurie and newcomer Charlotte Dujardin won the [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Great Britain succumbs to Croatia at L...

Turning into the final quarter 16 points down with Croatia in command at 63-47 up, Great Britain hustled hard in defence and suddenly started to find their game in attack and had closed to within three points, at 71-68 down with 47 second [...]