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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 ̵…

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),…

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…

Olympics 2012: Mexico wins men’s Olympic football gold medal after beating Brazil

Mexico has beaten Brazil with 2-1 at Wembley and has won the men's Olympic football gold medal for the first time

Mexico has beaten Brazil with 2-1 at Wembley and has won the men’s Olympic football gold medal for the first time. Oribe Peralta struck from the 18-yard box after 32 seconds following some poor Brazilian defending. Fabian Marco hit the Brazil crossbar before a completely unmarked Oribe Peralta headed his team’s second goal. Brazil, also hoping to win gold for the first time, pulled a…

Olympics 2012: IOC asks South Korea to bar footballer Park Jong-woo from medal ceremony

IOC has asked South Korea to bar Park Jong-woo from the bronze medal ceremony after he held up a political message after the team beat Japan

…asked South Korea to bar Park Jong-woo from the bronze medal ceremony after he held up a political message after the team beat Japan South Korea won the Olympic football bronze medal by beating Japan 2-0. The IOC says that after the game, a player was photographed brandishing a sign allegedly asserting South Korea’s sovereignty over the islands. The committee urged the South Korean Olympic

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…

Michael Phelps ends career by winning his 18th Olympic title and 22nd medal overall

An era of unprecedented sporting domination came to an end at the London Olympics today, with a stunning victory for Michael Phelps in his last competitive race

An era of unprecedented sporting domination came to an end at the London Olympics today, with a stunning victory for Michael Phelps in his last competitive race. Swimming the butterfly leg of the 4X100 medley relay, Michael Phelps, 27, displayed his characteristic power to close down the leading Japanese team and claim a record 18th gold medal and pull clear as the most successful Olympian of all…

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…

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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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…

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…

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: 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…

Olympics 2012: China’s Olympic delegation to probe badminton match loss

Chinese Olympic delegation has begun an investigation into allegations two badminton players "deliberately lost" their match

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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…

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…

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…

Nadzeya Ostapchuk, women’s shot put Olympic gold medalist, strips off title after failing doping test

Nadzeya Ostapchuk, women's shot put Olympic gold medalist, has been stripped of her title after failing a doping test

Nadzeya Ostapchuk, women’s shot put Olympic gold medalist, has been stripped of her title after failing a doping test, the International Olympic Committee has announced. Belarusian Nadzeya Ostapchuk, 31, threw 21.36 m with her third attempt to win in the Olympic Stadium last week. But Nadzeya Ostapchuk has now been disqualified after officials said metenolone was found in a urine sample she…

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…

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: 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 First Day: China on top of the medal table with six medals

Yi Siling won first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics in the women's 10 m air rifle

The first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics has been won by China, which ended the first day on top of the medal table. Yi Siling’s victory in the women’s 10 m air rifle was the first of six medals for China, including four golds. Mingjuan Wang took weightlifting gold, Sun Yang won China’s first male gold in swimming and Ye Shiwen, 16, set a world record in the 400 m indivi…

Olympicene, molecular image of the Olympic rings

Olympicene molecule, just over a billionth of a metre across, gets its name because its five linked rings resemble the Olympic symbol

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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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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…

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