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Olympics 2012: Olympic flame lit in Greece for London Games relay

Olympic flame which will be used for the London 2012 torch relay has been lit during a ceremony in Olympia, Greece

Olympic flame which will be used for the London 2012 torch relay has been lit during a ceremony in Olympia, Greece. The flame was kindled by a “high priestess” who captured the morning sun’s rays in a parabolic mirror. The ceremony came amid political and economic turmoil in Greece, the home of the Ancient Olympics, where a week-long leg of the relay will be held. The flame flie…

Volodymyr Gerashchenko, senior Ukrainian Olympic official, suspended after trying to sell tickets to black market

Volodymyr Gerashchenko, of Ukraine's National Olympic Committee (NOC), told a reporter posing as a UK tout he would have up to 100 tickets to sell

Volodymyr Gerashchenko, a senior Ukrainian Olympic official, has been suspended after a BBC investigation showed he was willing to unofficially sell 2012 tickets for cash. Volodymyr Gerashchenko, of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee (NOC), told a reporter posing as a UK tout he would have up to 100 tickets to sell. It is a criminal offence, punishable by fines of up to £20,000 ($32,000),…

What you need to know for the London Olympics 2012

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ic Games begin on 29 August 20012 and close on 9 September 2012. During the London 2012 Olympic Games top sportsmen and women from across the world will be competing in 26 sports which break down into 39 disciplines. There are 20 sports in the Paralympic schedule in the London 2012 Games. An Olympic Park has been created on 2.5sq km of land in east London from former industrial land that has been…

Olympics 2012: Olympic flame handed over to UK in Athens ceremony

President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Spyros Capralos passed the flame to Princess Anne, president of the British Olympic Association in the Panathenaic Stadium

he torch on British soil. After criss-crossing every region of the UK, the flame will be used to light the cauldron in Stratford’s Olympic Stadium at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on 27 July. At Thursday’s handover ceremony, crowds in the stadium stood beneath multi-colored umbrellas as the national anthems of the UK and Greece were sung by a British school choir and a Gree…

World’s biggest McDonald’s restaurant built next to the Olympic stadium in London

The biggest McDonald’s restaurant on the planet has been built in London, right in the middle of the Olympic park

The biggest McDonald’s restaurant on the planet has been built in London, right in the middle of the Olympic park. The vast two-storey restaurant will serve up to 1,200 customers an hour and sell $5 million of fast food during Olympic Games. At 3,000 sq ft the building, next to the Olympic Stadium, is bigger than the current largest McDonald’s, in Moscow. The Russian restaurant will regain its ti…

Olympics 2012: Athletics to start at London‘s Olympic Stadium

London's Olympic Stadium will welcome the athletics events later in the day

London’s Olympic Stadium will welcome the athletics events later in the day, ensuring the Olympic Park’s busiest day since the Games opened a week ago. More than 200,000 people will be at the park, prompting warnings for those not attending the Games to avoid the area. The Central Line, which serves the Olympic Park in Stratford, is suspended from Liverpool Street to Leytonstone. It f…

London Olympics opening ceremony programme

London Olympics opening ceremony is just hours away after seven years of preparations

hree minutes for the first time since King George VI’s funeral. Lord’s cricket ground has turned away spectators trying to get in to watch archery amid confusion over ticketing. The London 2012 website advertised the event’s preliminary rounds as “unticketed”, which some members of the public interpreted as open to the public. But Olympic organizer LOCOG said it had n…

Olympics 2012: people urged to save the surprise of Olympic Games opening ceremony

Spectators who attended a preview of the Olympic Games opening ceremony have been urged to keep the details secret and not spoil the surprise for others

…m’s training camp • On Tuesday, Heathrow is set for its busiest day for Olympics so far as it prepares to handle about 217,000 passengers, including some 1,200 athletes and coaches and more than 3,000 other Games-related arrivals • Motorists have faced long queues on routes where pre-Olympics modifications have been made to road layouts • And the Olympic torch is travelling from Kingston, in…

Olympics 2012: IOC inquiry into olympic tickets sales on the black market claims

IOC has begun an investigation into claims Olympics representatives were willing to sell thousands of tickets for the London Games on the black market

alleges, during a two-month investigation in which reporters posed as Middle Eastern ticket touts, it found corruption involving people representing 54 separate countries. More than one million London 2012 tickets were distributed abroad among all the nations taking part in the Games, but the IOC has strict rules to try to combat touts. National Olympic committees must ensure that their allocation…

US Olympic medal winners taxed on their prize money

US medal-winning athletes at the Olympics will have to pay tax on their prize money

…o cheat,” says John Hoberman. He believes the more money you offer, especially in poorer countries, the greater the chance an athlete will be tempted to dope. How much for a gold medal at London 2012 Olympics: • Singapore – $800,000 • Kazakhstan – $250,000 • Kyrgyzstan – $200,000 • Uzbekistan – $150,000 • Russia – $135,000 • Tajikistan – $63,000 • US ̵…

Rio 2016: Olympic flag arrives in Brazil

The official Olympic flag has arrived in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, the host city of 2016 Games

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London 2012 Closing Ceremony: grand finale brings Olympic Games to end

London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony has started with a performance charting a journey through a day in the life of the capital city

sing ceremony as a “mashed-up symphony”. Kim Gavin said it would showcase “British creativity in the arts” and take people on a musical journey from Elgar to Waterloo Sunset in 30 tracks. The director explained that while the national flags would process in, the athletes would come in together as “friends” rather than country-by-country as in the opening ceremon…

Full moon forming sixth ring in Olympic display at London‘s Tower Bridge

Reuters photographer Luke MacGregor’s perfectly timed snap captured the full moon forming a sixth ring in the Olympic display on London's Tower Bridge

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Olympics 2012: London Olympic Stadium oficially opened

Niamh Clarke-Willis joined LOCOG head Lord Sebastian Coe to hit a button which launched balloons into the sky above London Olympic Stadium for this summer's Games

2012 Olympics stadium has been officially opened by nine-year-old Niamh Clarke-Willis at a ceremony in east London. Niamh Clarke-Willis joined LOCOG head Lord Sebastian Coe to hit a button which launched balloons into the sky above the venue for this summer’s Games. Around 40,000 members of the public were at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford to witness the opening, which included a laser li…

London Olympics Opening Ceremony: young athletes light Olympic flame

Queen Elizabeth II has declared the London Olympics officially open, before seven young athletes were given the honor of lighting the ceremonial flame

…tity of who was to light the symbolic flame was shrouded in secrecy ahead of the ceremony. The group of seven, chosen by British Olympic champions, each lit a single tiny flame on the ground, igniting 205 petals, one for each competing nation or territory. Long stems then rose towards each other to form a cauldron, signifying unity. The flame made a dramatic arrival via the Thames on a speedboat c…

Olympics 2012: ArcelorMittal Orbit officially unveiled today at the Olympic Park

The completed steel sculpture, known as ArcelorMittal Orbit, stands at the heart of the Olympic Park

…8221; he said. The completed steel sculpture, known as ArcelorMittal Orbit, stands at the heart of the Olympic Park After the Olympics, the public won’t be able to access the Orbit until Easter 2014 – when the South Plaza is opened up. Ticket prices have not been announced for the full opening from 2014. Members of the media were given a sneak preview of the experience on Friday morni…

August 2011, London riots’ mapping.

London riots mapping.

…adly shooting by police of Mark Duggan, 29. Sunday night street violence spread to Brixton and to the following areas: England riots mapping.   Hackney, East London Rioting reigned for more than 3 hours on the Pembury Estate in Hackney as 300 masked people burned cars, looted shops and threw petrol bombs at riot police. Burning debris – including motorbikes, bins and sticks – was…

Dutch Olympic athletes face fines for delaying degrees

Dutch Olympic athletes are facing government fines because they delayed finishing their degrees

Dutch Olympic athletes are facing government fines because they delayed finishing their degrees. About 50 of the athletes competing at the London 2012 Games are still at university or college. For many of them, Olympic training commitments have interrupted their studies meaning they will be forced to pay thousands of euros in penalties. Dutch law states that each student must pay standard tuition…

London 2012 Olympic Gala: Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge were the star attractions

Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge were the star attractions at last night's gala to mark the countdown to the London Olympic Games

…rs. Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge were the star attractions at last night's gala to mark the countdown to the London Olympic Games Once inside, Prince William gave a witty speech to the 3,000 guests in which he likened his physique to that of a pigeon. He quipped: ”Naturally, I was asked to compete for TeamGB in every sport, but sadly Lord Coe said there were London pigeons wi…

Olympics 2012: athletes and officials are to begin arriving in London

Preparations for London 2012 are intensifying with the opening ceremony just 11 days away

ast London. The village will house 16,000 athletes and officials at its peak. Those that travel by road will benefit from the first of the Games Lanes which at busy times will operate between Junction 3 and Junction 2 of the M4 motorway towards London. The motorway has just reopened following emergency repairs on a damaged flyover near Junction 2. The rest of the 30 miles of dedicated lanes in the…

Olympics 2012: Olympic torch welcomed to Buckingham Palace

The Olympic torch has been welcomed to Buckingham Palace by members of the royal family, including Princes William and Harry and the Duchess of Cambridge

…for our country”. “Seven years of waiting, planning, building, dreaming, are almost over – tomorrow, the curtain comes up, the spectators arrive, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 can officially begin.” David Cameron also met the Republican candidate for the US presidency, Mitt Romney, during his campaigning and fundraising visit to London. Mitt Romney had earlier e…

Olympics 2012: bus crash kills cyclist near Olympic Park in Hackney

Olympic bus crash kills cyclist in Hackney

A cyclist has been killed in a crash with what police are describing as an “Olympic bus” on the border of the Olympic Park in Hackney, eastern London. The man, believed to be aged 30, was injured just before 19:45 BST at the junction of Ruckholt Road and East Cross Road, Hackney. Police and an air ambulance attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene about half an hour later…

Olympics 2012: US Ralph Lauren uniforms made in China spark outrage

The classic US Olympic uniform may have a distinctly American look, but the label inside reads Made in China

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Serena Williams wins first singles Olympic gold after beating Maria Sharapova

Serena Williams wins first singles Olympic gold after beating Maria Sharapova

…seed, beat the third-seeded Russian on the same Centre Court where she took home her fifth Wimbledon championship last month. Since losing to a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova at the 2004 Wimbledon final, 30-year-old Serena Williams has now beaten Sharapova eight consecutive times. Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova have won all four Grand Slam titles during their careers but both were going for thei…

Olympics 2012: olympic torch wins Design of the Year Award

Barber Osgerby, the British creative team behind the London Olympic torch, has won the prestigious Design of the Year award 2012

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