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United Press International
| 1 year ago
British rock band Coldplay confirmed on its Web site plans to perform at the Paralympic Games closing ceremony this summer in London. The Paralympics are multi-sport events in which athletes with disabilities compete...Coldplay said Sunday it has...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
When she hit the tape Sunday at the Powerade Great City Games in Manchester, England, Britain's Jessica Ennis hadn't only beaten Olympic heptathlon champion Dawn Harper. Ennis had also run a personal best 12.75 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles 0.04...
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Adelaide Now
| 1 year ago
Olympic Games in London, Athletics Australia selector Steve Monaghetti will be in Adelaide. The marathon man will be taking part in the Fitzy's 5 fun run on August 5, a 5km fun run in memory of SA Olympic athlete David Fitzsimons , who passed away...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Organizers say the Olympic torch was briefly snuffed out during the relay leading up to the London 2012 Games. An international delivery service is turning to a team of runners to beat the London Olympics crush. British sailing hero Ben Ainslie...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Crowds line the streets as a locally organised torch relay race is run ahead of the Olympic Torch Relay in Hatherleigh in south west England May 21, 2012. The Olympic flame went out on Monday for the first time during the torch relay around...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Paralympics: Pistorius predicts close 100m final Four-time Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius expects "an unbelievably close" 100m competition at the London 2012 Games. Pistorius won gold in the event four years ago but was beaten at last year'...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Coldplay to headline Paralympic ceremony Coldplay have headlined festivals including Glastonbury Best-selling British band Coldplay are to headline the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. They will take to the stage at the Olympic...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
27 The influx of visitors set to hit London for the Olympics have raised concerns the transport system cannot handle the extra weight. Airport delays, strikes and congestion could see London grind to a halt as 5 million visitors overload the city.
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
The 31-year-old Suetsugu, who was part of Japan's bronze medal winning 4x100 meters relay team at the Beijing Games, hurt his left leg on Saturday in posting a time of just 11.77 seconds to place eighth in the 100, throwing into doubt his...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Fredericks, who won the event on two previous occasions, fell from Be My Guest and was taken to hospital in Angers. The 44-year-old Fredericks, who is based at Devizes in England with his wife and former Badminton winner Lucinda, was a member of...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves after casting his ballot for the parliamentary election run-off at a polling station in Tehran on May 4, 2012. The vote is seen as unlikely to change the political direction of the predominantly...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
With a comfortable 2-0 win, Danish veteran Peter Gade led his country cruise past underdog South Africa in the opener of the Thomas Cup here Sunday. In the first group stage encounter of the team championships, Denmark made a clean sweep by beating...
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Just Jared
| 1 year ago
K David Beckham is all smiles while visiting the Experimental University School of Athens on Friday (May 18) in Greece. The 37-year-old soccer star chatted and high fived students before he caught a flight back to the UK. The day before, David suited...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
It was a savage act of terror, made all the more shocking for the setting. In 1972, at the Olympic Games a global festival of solidarity and sportsmanship Palestinian terrorists kidnapped, held hostage and killed 11 members of the Israeli delegation.
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
PhilippinesThe Lord Mayor of London will lead a business mission to Manila this week in light of the United Kingdom's policy of greater engagement in the Asia Pacific at large and Southeast Asia in particular. The British Embassy said in a statement...
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PopSugar
| 1 year ago
David Beckham had the honor of bringing the Olympic Flame from Athens to England yesterday. He participated in a welcome ceremony in his home country that marks the beginning of a 70 day relay for the flame before the start of the 2012 Summer...
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The Macon Telegraph
| 1 year ago
Hancock missed just two targets in four rounds of competition Friday...Tied at 336 targets are Frank Thompson, BJ Blanchard and Mark Weeks. The top two skeet shooters qualify for the London Games, which start at the end of July. Competition continues...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
News in pictures On Facebook Keller, the construction group which built the foundations for the 2012 London Olympic Stadium, reported a disappointing start to the year in Europe, and said it would continue to shrink its business in Spain, Portugal...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Olympics News The Israeli government requested a moment of silence be observed 40 years after 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed at the Munich Games, but the International Olympic Committee refused. Brazil's men's basketball team will be led...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
May 19, 2012 Read later Princess Anne holds aloft the Olympic flame in Athens, Greece. Photo: Getty Images The Princess Royal said that she sympathises with those who object to the cost of staging the Olympics this year and understands that some...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Wycherley levels race-off with Brabants Paul Wycherley has levelled his race-off for London 2012 selection with reigning Olympic canoe sprint champion Tim Brabants by bettering Brabants' finish at the World Cup in Poland. Wycherley has qualified for...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Four Singaporean shuttlers have been nominated for the upcoming London Olympics. The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) said it has carefully deliberated to select the best players to represent the country at the London Games. SBA used a set of...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
International David Beckham has no plans to retire after London 2012 Olympics David Beckham says he has no plans to retire, regardless of whether Team GB win gold at the Olympic Games. The Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder is hopeful of being selected to...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
British tourists find spending holidays in Greece is cheap as the crisis there continues to cast doubt over the eurozone. Newsbeat speaks to a Bayern Munich fan and his Chelsea-supporting friend about the Champions League final. With Chelsea taking...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
EDT The Olympic Flame has been handed over to the 2012 London delegation, at a ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Greece. The flame was passed to the President of the British Olympic Association (BOA), HRH the Princess Royal, by the President of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
EDT The Olympic Flame has been handed over to the 2012 London delegation, at a ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Greece. The flame was passed to the President of the British Olympic Association (BOA), HRH the Princess Royal, by the President of...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Chief-Executive Sebastian Coe stands in the London Olympic Stadium before the Olympic athletics test event starting on May 4 2012 in Stratford, London on May 2, 2012. Greece, May 17 (UPI) -- The Olympic Torch was handed to Britain Thursday, in...
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The Observer
| 1 year ago
Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images The lifestyles of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iran are comprehensively and systematically denied by the Islamic regime, which exposes them to horrific punishment, bullying and risk of suicide, a...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting with Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe March 24, 2012.
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Times of India
| 1 year ago
Amid talk of reducing crude imports from Iran, and barely a week after US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's visit to India, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , urging him to expand bilateral ties in "...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
The Olympic torch was formally handed over from Greece to organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games in a ceremony here on Thursday. In damp weather at the Panathenaic Stadium that hosted the 1896 Olympics, the torch was presented to Princess Anne...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
T he flame for the London Olympics, which start on July 27 after a 70-day torch relay around Britain, was formally handed over at a ceremony in a damp Athens on Thursday. The flame, lit from the sun's rays at the home of the ancient Games in Olympia...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
The Olympic flame will travel to London, where the Summer Games will take place from July 27-Aug. 12...Hundreds of Greeks huddled beneath umbrellas and sat on the stone steps of the ancient stadium in Athens on Thursday to watch the ceremonial...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Iran said last year it might boycott the London Olympics because it believed the event's logo, which depicts the year 2012 with four jagged multi-coloured figures, resembled the word Zion and was therefore "racist". Zion is a term that refers to the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad applauded Iran's athletes but said he would not be going to London to watch them. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Iran 's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , has said he would like to come to the London Olympics...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
In London, Junior Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham said invitations to the Olympic Games were issued by countries' sports officials. Answering a written parliamentary question, he said: "Heads of State and Government are invited to attend the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 1 year ago
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that he is eager to attend the Olympic Games in London to support Iranian athletes but that Britain doesn't want to host him. Old Dominion is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association and joining Conference...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims he has been blocked by the UK authorities from attending the Olympic Games in London. Iranian athletes" at the Games, but that Britain has "a problem" with him being there. The Foreign Office today refused...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Athens The Olympic Flame for the 2012 London Games was welcomed with great enthusiasm in Athens, as it reached the Acropolis Hill, finishing its long trip across Greece on the eve of the handover ceremony. Greek world champion in high jump Dimitris...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
In November 2011, two compounds of the British embassy in Tehran were stormed by Iranian protesters. The storming of the British embassy followed the Iranian high legislative body Guardian Council's approval of a parliamentary bill expelling the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Gatlin, Jeter win at Daegu meet Justin Gatlin of the United States won the men's 100 metres in 9.93 seconds on Wednesday in Daegu, South Korea. His compatriot, Carmelita Jeter, won the women's 100 metres race, covering the distance in 11.11 seconds...
