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The Independent
| 10 months ago
Victoria Pendleton is sitting in a corner of the Newport velodrome, the base camp for Britain's track cyclists ahead of the Olympics. Another day's training is complete, another ticked off on the last lap of her career, one that has already, ahead of...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Technology Economy G4S security van G4S Olympics The U.K. government has billed the games as a springboard for growth, setting up a British Business Embassy on the Mall which, it says, will bring together more than 3,000 business leaders from across...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
A plot offering false passports and visas to illegally enter England with the Pakistani Olympic team was exposed Monday by a London newspaper. An undercover investigation by the British newspaper The Sun, secretly videotaped, claimed to demonstrate...
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The Huffington Post
| 10 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama, who is heading to London for the Olympics, discussed on Monday her memories of watching the Olympics on TV, saying she never believed she would one day attend the games. I am beyond proud to be leading the U.S. delegation...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Olympics can inspire kids to get active Updated First lady Michelle Obama will lead the U.S. delegation to this weekend's opening of the Olympics, and she hopes the Games will inspire more kids to get active. "As our Olympic athletes get to compete...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
23 July 2012 More than 200 foreign visitors in London for the Games were forced to queue for hours in the blistering 27C heat for their Olympic tickets because of an administrative error. Tourists were left waiting outside a college in Paddington,...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
London 2012: Phillips Idowu to miss Team GB training camp British triple jumper Phillips Idowu will not travel to the team's training camp in Portugal as he continues his attempt to regain full fitness. The 2008 Olympic silver medallist has not...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Transport disruption during the Olympics is inevitable as "huge numbers" of people put the system under pressure, the PM's spokesman has said. He spoke as drivers in London faced delays as lanes were closed ahead of the introduction of new Games...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
The main Japanese delegation for the London Olympics arrived Sunday in the British capital, hoping for a successful campaign in the 100th year since Japan first participated in the Summer Games. "The start (of the Olympics) is almost upon us. We will...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
Security, transport and the threat of strikes were on the agenda for a top-level pre-Olympics meeting of the Government's Cobra contingencies committee, chaired by Prime Minister David Cameron this morning. Senior ministers, Olympic organisers and...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Charlene, a former member of the team, offered help in terms of funding and hosting for the team, after hearing their problems. She has reportedly offered to host the team free of charge in Monaco, including travel, food, accomodation and other...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
Key rail links to London's Olympic Park suffered major disruption on Monday, raising fresh concerns about the British capital's creaking transport network just four days before the Games. Traffic jams also built up on several main roads leading into...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
She will play in the women`s singles at the All England Club where she won the women`s singles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 2004. Russia made a clean sweep of the women`s singles medals at Beijing, where Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina and...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
23 July 2012 All eyes will be on the athletes as they row, jump, throw and cycle their way through two weeks of events in venues around our great capital for this summer's Olympics. But if you're wondering how to occupy yourself when not admiring the...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Track cyclist Chris Hoy will carry the British flag at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics on July 27, the British Olympic Association (BOA) said on Monday. Hoy, who was knighted after his triple gold medal haul in Beijing four years ago,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
World number one Roger Federer said he is expecting "something special" at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Olympic tennis will take place at Wimbledon where Federer won his record equalling seventh Championships this month. He is competing in the...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs From sheds to Stratford, the latest Olympic-related property news by Alex Johnson 23 July 2012 10:59 AM There are few stories more compelling than that of an athlete reaching their lifelong dream. by...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
July 23, 2012 Australia’s Olympic swimming team is determined to knock the American’s off their perch with a longer preparation on their side ahead of this month's London Games. The Australian swim team competed at their Olympic trials over...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
China captured 51 golds, 21 silvers and 28 bronzes in Beijing, relegating the United States to second place with a 36-38-36 record. Russia were third on 23-21-28 and Britain followed with 19-13-15. Germany, Australia and South Korea occupied the...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics It is a dozen years since Britain's swimmers returned from the Sydney Olympics without a single medal. Four years ago they came home with half a dozen only the US and Australia won more and there is a quiet confidence as they...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Take one amateur athlete hopefully someone with a good back story and begin drumming up consumer interest two, maybe three years before the Olympics...It's a business model McLean-based Octagon has honed over the past three decades. The company,...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Greek athletes strive for London as Athens legacy fades BBC News, Athens Venues which gleamed in 2004 have been left to rot Even in the late afternoon, the heat is unbearable. The athletes put on a brave face, but it is hard to stand still, let alone...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
Police and MI5 are tracking a man believed to have been involved in last week's suicide bomb attack in Bulgaria , which left seven people dead, including five Israeli tourists. The man is thought to have entered London on a US passport under the...
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New Zealand Herald
| 10 months ago
Monday Jul 23, 2012 The world has become accustomed to the lead-up to its major sporting extravaganza, the Olympic Games, being a time of fretting and foreboding. Always there seems to be a multitude of worries ranging from stadiums that appear...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Boosted by the Olympics and Bradley Wiggins' victory at the Tour de France, London Mayor Boris Johnson says the city will bid for the 2016 track cycling world championships. Johnson says London has been chosen by the British cycling federation as its...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
Staff writer Should the International Olympic Committee permit individuals or groups to make political statements during the Olympics? There are various opinions on that position, but longtime NBC announcer Bob Costas thinks so. Case in point: As USA...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
London will bid for the 2016 track cycling world championships, the Olympic city said on Sunday, seizing the momentum from Bradley Wiggins's ground-breaking victory at the Tour de France . Immediately after Wiggins became the first British cyclist to...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
A terrorist believed to have been involved in a horrific suicide bomb attack in Bulgaria last week has emerged as one of the biggest security threats to the Olympics. A sketch of the man is pictured A terrorist believed to have been involved in a...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
The Olympics are bringing longer Sunday shopping hours to England. Britain's government says restrictions on Sunday trading hours will be lifted during the games to maximize the economic benefit that the Olympics will bring to the country. Currently,...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 10 months ago
In London, six out of eight facilities at Olympic Park have their future secured, but a multi-million pound (dollar) plan to lease the Olympic stadium to a London soccer club fell through amid legal wrangling last year. Now, new bids are being...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
00 am London 2012 The basketball arena view from the Parklands. From the beginning, Olympic games have left behind physical traces, whether in the form of the ruins at Olympia in Greece or, in modern times, in host cities dotting the world.
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China News
| 10 months ago
English city is hosting 24 contented members of China's swimming team After completing an intensive three-hour training session, Chinese swimmer Jiao Liuyang dried herself before completing some stretching exercises. Looking exceedingly lively, she...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
He needs to win just three medals to surpass Larisa Latynina Olympic record of 18 set between 1956 and 1964. Swimming has been Phelps`s life as well but, at 27, he is getting ready to walk away and is determined not to let anxiety, or the expectation...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
There will be no minute's silence for the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich massacre at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. IOC President Jacques Rogge downplayed fears that wearing the wrong kind of logo on a T-shirt could cause a ticket...
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The Star
| 10 months ago
High jumper Lee Hup Wei is feeling out of sorts as he prepares for his second Olympic outing. The 25-year-old Selangor athlete not only failed to surpass the Category B qualifying mark of 2.28m for the London Olympics but has been struggling in meets...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
It is now only five days until Danny Boyle's creative spectacular officially raises the curtain on the greatest show on earth, and London becomes the first city to host the Olympics three times. It's a great honour and a huge responsibility, but it...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics When the Olympic flame finally lights up London around midnight on Friday, it will ignite an unprecedented fever that should envelop the nation. The 30th Olympiad will be propelled to the forefront of our consciousness, a wondrous...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
The IOC will not take disciplinary action before the London Olympics against officials accused of illegal ticket sales. Adam Scott has never had a better chance to end that long wait for a major championship mostly because of that long putter. When...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
Speaking at Olympic delegation's inauguration ceremony on Saturday, Murakami made his declaration in front of Crown Prince Naruhito at Yoyogi National Gymnasium Annex. Japanese Olympic Committee Chef de Mission Haruki Uemura said the country will aim...
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France24
| 10 months ago
Kobe Bryant of the US Olympic basketball team attends a training session on the eve of their warm-up match against Britain's Team GB at the Manchester Arena in Mancheste on July 18, 2012. In Britain's provincial gyms, pools, schools and leisure...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will travel to London for the Olympics starting next week to push for Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Games, bid officials said on Saturday. Istanbul is bidding alongside Madrid and Tokyo for the 2020 summer...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Fell, Special to the Los Angeles Times Olympic champion swimmer Matt Grevers, 27, knows about love. He loves his fiancee, he loves his sport and he loves his country. Although born and raised in the U.S., Grevers' parents are from the Netherlands ,...
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BDNews24
| 10 months ago
Olympic chief Jacques Rogge flew into London on Friday a week ahead of the opening ceremony and predicted a 'great Games', despite a security fiasco, travel disruptions and persistent rain. The biggest single problem in the run-up to the July 27-...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Articles As many as 450 train drivers are prepared to abandon their East Midlands Trains routes during a strike, Aslef said...Meanwhile, the Olympic Games are scheduled for July 27-Aug. 12. East Midlands Trains representatives say that if the drivers'...
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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
AFP London is the first city to host the modern Olympics three times...In 2012, it will be however inadvertently to distract the world, especially Europe, from recession. Somehow, the role of the Olympics in London always is to provide cheerful...
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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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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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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...
