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The Independent
| 10 months ago
News in pictures Suggested Topics Bookies are predicting a £50m bonanza from the London Olympics as punters take to betting on the Games for the first time. Traditionally, the Olympics hasn't been big business for UK bookmakers but they will be...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
The IOC will not take disciplinary action before the London Olympics against officials accused of illegal ticket sales.
The IOC opened an ethics investigation last month after Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported that national...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Jason Reed US President Obama on Friday joined the campaign for a moment of silence at the London Olympics to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians at the 1972 Munich Olympics. We absolutely support the campaign for...
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Novinite
| 10 months ago
We succeed in preparing strong, risky and beautiful compositions," said Raeva. "We will able to demonstrate the Bulgarian school of gymnastics, for our compositions really have a style of their own," added the former world champion. Raeva said she is...
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Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
Inside the channels you can watch It's a couch-potato's dream come true as there will be more than 5,000 hours of TV covering the London Olympics. NBC (Channel 5) Coverage will begin on most weekdays at 10 a.m. after the Today Show...Primetime shows...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
News in pictures Arts & Ents blogs With over 200 nations getting ready to represent at next week's London Olympics we couldn't help but... In 2002, DJ Kentaro became one of the youngest ever winners of the DMC Championships, and simultaneo...
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Big News Network
| 10 months ago
Soasta, which makes a product that can simulate millions of users hitting a site or mobile app at once, has been working for six months to test the website, along with the sites of many sponsors and advertisers connected to the Games that the company...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Neymar turned in a fine individual display by scoring one goal and setting up another as Brazil warmed up for the Olympics with a 2-0 victory over Britain on Friday. The 20-year-old striker whipped in a free kick for Sandro to head the gold medal...
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The Dish Rag
| 10 months ago
150,000 condoms on hand in Olympic Village It turns out that Olympians have a LOT of down time. In fact, so much down time that organizers of the Summer 2012 games in London have stocked the Athletes' Village with 150,000 condoms in anticipation of...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
And unless Rocky himself makes an appearance, it's unlikely film's perennial bad guys will be beaten in London. With the Youth Olympics gold already safe, Russia enters the Games as the hands down favourites in men's wrestling. The Russians have won...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Articles Thousands of athletes, fans, tourists, and officials will be arriving in the next few days amid news of security lapses which surfaced last week. The concerns emerged after news broke that G4S, the private security contractor which was...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
British soldiers put on standby for Olympics London: An additional 1,200 soldiers have been put on standby to guard the London Olympics, bringing the total number of military personnel involved in the games to 17,000, a media report said on Friday.
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
The 2012 Olympics are finally at hand, after four long years of training and anticipation by the world's best athletes and fans of sport from every corner of the globe. This year, the world is coming together once again in the name of sport for the...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
Competitors have been told to let their 'personality shine through' on Twitter by the British Olympic Association. The International Olympic Association launched a feed that will contain an ongoing stream of tweets from the athletes. Are you really...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
I know it's only a week away, and I know that all around us are the signs that the Olympics are coming, but after such a prolonged, over-wrought build-up, it seems almost hard to believe that soon our attention will be diverted from official...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Britain's border guards are to strike on the eve of the Olympics, the busiest day in the history of Heathrow, despite their union securing the support of just one in 10 staff. Up to 5,500 immigration officials will strike next Thursday in a dispute...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
It's a safe bet that most of the 200 or so countries competing in the London Olympics are already represented in the British capital, one of the world's most multicultural cities. In My Opinion The London Olympics Opening Ceremonies are eight days...
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Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
Originally published Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 10:05 PM Londoners take complaining to Olympic levels as Games approach Even in the best of times, whinging, as Britons call the persistent grousing that is their default response to life's challenges,...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
It's your one stop shop for information about what date your favorite events will be taking place at the London Games. The world's most elite athletes are flying in from all corners of the globe to be in London for the 2012 Olympics , which begin...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 10 months ago
We absolutely support the campaign for a minute of silence at the Olympics to honor the Israeli athletes killed in Munich, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News in an email. The families of the victims of the 1972 massacre,...
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Xtra News
| 10 months ago
US fans of the Olympics will be tracking the summer games on multiple screens, turning to tablets and smartphones for news, survey results showed Thursday. The finding came as faded Internet star Yahoo! laid out plans to be the preferred online venue...
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Tech Dirt
| 10 months ago
33am Olympics Crack Down On Anyone Mentioning Them Without Paying... As White House Tells Everyone To Set Up Olympics Parties from the ip-violations-galore! dept We've covered for years how overly aggressive the Olympics are in protecting their "IP" -...
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France24
| 10 months ago
Rafael Nadal is dropping out of the London Olympics because he is not in form to compete, the Spanish tennis world number two said in a statement on Thursday. "I am not in condition to compete in the London Olympics, so I will not be travelling as...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Britain's top official in charge of the Olympics says 1,200 extra UK troops have been put on standby for the 2012 London Games.
In a statement released Thursday, Jeremy Hunt claimed there was "no current need to deploy any additional...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
The BBC's Olympics titles transform the landscape of the United Kingdom into a giant sporting arena London 2012: Comprehensive coverage on BBC Sport website The BBC Sport website will produce its most in-depth coverage of a sporting event ever...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
19 July 2012 G4S understaffing is just the tip of the iceberg. UK businesses have largely ignored warnings about the need to prepare for the Olympics, which are less than two weeks away. When news broke that G4S, the company contracted to supply...
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The Hindu
| 10 months ago
The Sports Ministry approved a list of 142-member Indian contingent, submitted by the Indian Olympics Association (IOA), for participation in the 30th Olympics at London here on Thursday. While approving, the Ministry has communicated in its sanction...
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Tech Dirt
| 10 months ago
Pistorius was previously disqualified from the 2008 Olympics, but he'll be allowed to compete this year, potentially paving the way for other athletes to move over from the Paralympics. Here are just a few technological advances for artificial limbs...
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New Zealand Herald
| 10 months ago
Organisers have raised the possibility of the three day event being rescheduled due to the atrocious weather in London leaving the course at Greenwich struggling to cope. The prestigious Badminton Horse Trials were cancelled this year due to the...
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Fitsugar
| 10 months ago
Our new PopSugar social reader allows you to discover what your friends are reading and watching on PopSugar and shares your activity with them instantly. Plus, it adds your activity to your Facebook Ticker, Timeline, and News Feed. To see what else...
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Fitsugar
| 10 months ago
Your sharing status or "Activity" can be found right next to your profile picture and can be adjusted at any time. If you would prefer not to share the articles you are reading, just turn the Activity setting next to your profile picture to Off ...
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Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
T he sleepy northern Indian town of Bhiwani is considered a mini Cuba, with dozens of boxers fighting it out hard in top national and international competitions. Vijender Singh, a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics is the most famous name...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
Parts of the athletes village at the London Olympics are without water after delays installing pipes. The cafe in the village's shopping area was closed for several hours on Wednesday and other "grab and go" cafes were also affected. With the cafe...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
An artist in London has created an alternative souvenir of the London Olympics. A record called The Sounds of Making in east London captures the unique character of the area hosting the games through sound recordings of the many craftspeople and...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
London bus workers accept Olympics bonus offer Bus workers went on a 24-hour strike in June London bus workers have accepted and Olympics bonus payment offered to them and called off strike action. The Unite union said its members voted to accept £...
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TMZ
| 10 months ago
Olympic hero Apolo Anton Ohno is getting ready to travel to London for the Summer games ... and tells TMZ he's not even the slightest bit worried about the massive security issues going down in the U.K...British officials are furious after the...
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The Star
| 10 months ago
British broadcaster BBC has been awarded the Olympic broadcasting rights for their territory until 2020, the IOC said on Wednesday.
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Cuba's great hopes for boxing gold medals at London 2012 18 July 2012 Last updated at 02:37 ET Cuba has has won 32 gold medals in boxing over the years, but their team at the last Olympics in Bejing was hit by five defections and failed to win gold.
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San Jose Mercury News
| 10 months ago
Font Resize The London Summer Olympics by the numbers Participating countries: 204 Foreign visitors to London: 600,000 Global viewers of the games: four billion Number of official Olympic sponsorship partners: 11 Combined revenue from the 11 main...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
G4S chief executive Nick Buckles told British MPs that his firm was on track to deliver just 7,000 of the 10,000 guards required for duty at the Games, which start later this month. An extra 3,500 soldiers have had to be deployed to meet the firm's...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Kelly Hardwick will be headed to the Olympics after all.
The NBA security official who filed an employee discrimination lawsuit against U.S. women's national coach Geno Auriemma, the NBA and USA Basketball will be on a security detail...
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KSBY
| 10 months ago
Organizers of the London Olympics say preparations for the games are going fine, despite a lack of security guards, traffic that's already snarled, taxi protests and rain. Perhaps the most embarrassing snafu has been a shortfall in security guards...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
policing shortfall draws ire ahead of Olympics The head of the private security firm G4S apologized today for falling short of the numbers needed to secure the Olympic Games. The government is turning to soldiers and extra police. By Ian Evans, ...
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Leader Post Online
| 10 months ago
The security situation on the eve of the 2012 Summer Olympics was "a humiliating shambles," one of the principal architects of the plan told the British parliament Tuesday. Nick Buckles, who runs G4S, a British-based security firm with a global...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Ten days to the Games what could go wrong? a sarcastic headline in Britain's Guardian newspaper asked Tuesday. The answer, as this Olympic host nation has discovered, is: Quite a lot. Even as athletes begin arriving in London for the 2012 Summer...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
The London Olympic Committee has been forced to rely on thousands of members of the British military to help keep the London Olympics safe after the firm responsible, G4S, failed in its role to provide the correct quantity of security personnel. July...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Athletes getting lost on their way from the airport and security guards failing to turn up for work set plans in motion Tuesday for a parliamentary inquiry. As he prepares for the London Olympics, the marathoner Ryan Hall has embraced an evangelical...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Britain believes Olympic preparations are a shambles, a poll has found. The last-minute scramble to deploy troops to fill a shortage of security guards has raised public concern over Olympic safety, according to a Comres poll. Of the 2000 people...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
He secured a bronze in the 2007 Asian Boxing Championship and another bronze in the 2009 Czech Grand Prix...He has also won a Bronze medal in Olympic Qualifying Boxing Tournament in 2008. Manoj wants to win a medal in London Olympics for his elder...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Minister Andrew Robathan on G4S security 'debacle' 17 July 2012 Last updated at 06:00 ET Conservative defence minister Andrew Robathan expressed his own opinion during defence questions in the House of Commons that the security arrangements by the...
