Great Britain’s women’s basketball team are beaten 88-63 by USA despite a spirited performance in a Games preparation match in Manchester • Drivers on East Midlands Trains will strike from 6-8 August, union Aslef says, threatening disruption to spectators travelling to the Games • Certain ministers, including the prime minister, chancellor, culture secretary and foreign secretary will…
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…
rol of Olympic venue security, working alongside unarmed troops, searching and checking people going into the stadiums and other venues. Olympic sites number more than 30 sporting venues and more than 70 “non-competition venues” including car parks and hotels. …
ton Court Palace and being carried down the Thames on the final day of the torch relay. Around 50 boats took part in the flotilla, each reflecting London’s waterborne heritage. The flame’s 70-day nationwide journey ends with the lighting of the cauldron during this evening’s opening ceremony but the identity of the person who will take on the honor remains a mystery. Five-times r…
traints on this already stretched network,” he said. The biggest anti-doping operation in the history of the Olympics also begins on Monday. Drug testers are expecting to take the first of about 6,000 samples for testing at the London 2012 laboratory. Half of the competitors will be tested including every medallist at the Olympics and Paralympics. Ahead of the Games G4S chief executive Nick…
The White House has announced today that First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the official U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. It has become somewhat of a tradition for first ladies to lead the U.S. delegation. Laura Bush performed the duty at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, and Hillary Rodham Clinton headed up the delegation at the 1994…
…a mass bell ringing. Big Ben rang for three minutes for the first time since King George VI’s funeral in 1952. The three-and-a-half hour show was rehearsed more than 200 times, with each of the 7,500 volunteers spending on average 150 hours practicing during the build-up. The event used 12,956 props and boasted a million-watt PA system using more than 500 speakers. Thousands of fans also ga…
…shop Residents were told to stay indoors and the youths ran riot. “We don’t want people getting hurt by their bombs and missiles,” an officer said. Peckham, South-East London 500 rioters vandalized shops, lit fires and attacked police on Peckham High Street. A fire was started in a Greggs’ bakery. Looters jump out from smashed up store in Peckham A nearby bus was also se…
…s hoped the meeting could boost economic ties between the two nations. Asif Ali Zardari is officially coming for private religious reasons, to visit the shrine of Sufi saint Moinudin Chishti in Ajmer, 350 kilometres (220 miles) southwest of Delhi. However, his Interior Minister Rehman Malik and son and political heir Bilawal Bhutto Zardari are reportedly among an entourage of at least 25 people wh…
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has charged eight female Olympic badminton players with “not using one’s best efforts to win a match”. Four pairs of players – two from South Korea, one from China and one from Indonesia – could be disciplined. Spectators booed the two badminton matches played at Wembley Arena on Tuesday, in which the four accused pairs of players…
Women’s football is the first event of the Olympics and is to kick off later, two days before the official opening ceremony. The Team GB women’s football side will get 18 days of sport under way at 16:00 BST against New Zealand at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. Designated Games Lanes, covering about 30 miles of roads and off limits to the public, have begun operating in London. And gov…
c 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 flies to Britain on 18 May for a 70-day relay around the UK. The lighting ceremony took place in front of the ruins of the Temple of Hera, next to the ancient stadium. Actresses playing Olympic priestesses danced and men dressed as…
…always lie and say 5ft 10 inches. Next time I am going to get more adventurous. [If they ask me] what colour are you, I am going to say white,” he said. Shah Rukh Khan has appeared in more than 70 films and is considered one of India’s most recognizable and popular celebrities. There have been several incidents in the past of prominent Indian officials being stopped or frisked at US a…
ken on a week-long tour of Greece. A British delegation including David Beckham are due to fly with the torch to the UK on Friday. It will then be carried 8,000 miles (12,875 km) by 8,000 bearers in a 70-day relay ending at the Olympic Park. The relay begins at Land’s End on Saturday when triple Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie will be the first to carry the torch on British soil. After…
…all matches played on Wednesday • Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the torch relay in Tottenham, north London, on Wednesday. On the torch relay’s penultimate outing – day 69, which can be followed live here – the flame will pass through Downing Street and be greeted at Buckingham Palace by Princes William and Harry, and the Duchess of Cambridge • A global invest…
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…
d nine marathons. His personal best time of 5 hours and 40 minutes was set at the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon and is a world record for the over-90s. This year he completed the London Marathon in 7 hours and 49 minutes. At about 14:20 BST Tahmina Begum will carry the flame at Stepney Green Park. The 19-year-old was the first qualified Bangladeshi female football referee and has been officiati…
ely ambitious and there is also the promise of hard cash should athletes succeed – $200,000 for a gold medal, $150,000 for silver and $75,000 for bronze, our correspondent says. The team has won 39 medals including nine gold since its debut at the Olympics in 1996. …
als and tribulations together. We had our ups and we had our downs but through it all, I loved him.” “I don’t understand why you’re gone so soon.” Mark Duggan’s mother Pamela Duggan, 53, said: “In many way Semone saved Mark and that’s why he loved her dearly. She loved him unconditionally like they loved their children.” Pastor Nims Obunge made an impassioned plea for…
Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter, will not only look the part at the upcoming London Olympic Games, she will be living like her fellow competitors, too. Zara Phillips, Princess Anne’s daughter, is to be given no special treatment, it has emerged, staying in the Olympic village and sharing the same security and transport as other athletes. On Monday, Zara Phillips, 31, told of her ex…
…ce on Wednesday, void. “The election process has been tarnished since the start,” said IOC official Pere Miro. The ban prevents athletes competing for India, which won six medals at London 2012, at future Olympics. Two officials expected to be elected to senior IOA positions are closely linked to corruption allegations relating to Delhi’s hosting of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. L…
…eron earlier said the London Games would show the world “beyond doubt that Britain can deliver”. The flame ended the day in Hyde Park where the final torchbearer lit a cauldron in front of 60,000 people who have gathered for a celebratory concert. London Mayor Boris Johnson wished the crowds a “wonderful” Olympics, and thanked them for their support. “Are we ready? Ye…
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…
Thousands of people awaits the spectacular opening of the London Games, as a fly-past by the Red Arrows marked the start of the pre-show. The nine RAF jets flew over the Olympic Stadium at the symbolic time of 20:12 BST, amid cheers. The three-hour spectacle will be viewed by a TV audience of one billion people. Details of the ceremony remain a closely-guarded secret. Its artistic director, Danny…
…found shot in a car in Croydon, amid rioting in the south London town, had died in hospital. Tuesday evening has brought the news of a disturbance in Salford, Greater Manchester, where 70 to 80 young people are in a standoff with police, and West Bromwich where youths smashed stores windows….
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