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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…

London Olympics 2012: Michelle Obama will lead the official US delegation to the opening ceremonies

First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the official U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London

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Olympics 2012 opening ceremony details revealed

The Olympic Stadium will be transformed "into the British countryside" for the opening ceremony of the Games on 27 July

The Olympic Stadium will be transformed “into the British countryside” for the opening ceremony of the Games on 27 July, which has a £27 million ($43.2 million) budget. A cast of 10,000 volunteers will help recreate country scenes, against a backdrop featuring farmyard animals and landmarks like Glastonbury Tor. The opening scene will be called Green and Pleasant, artistic director Da…

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: UK border staff to strike ahead of London Games

Thousands of UK border staff will strike the day before London Olympics open

Thousands of UK border staff (Home Office) will strike the day before London Olympics open, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has said. PCS members will strike for 24 hours next Thursday – when many thousands of visitors are due to arrive in the UK. Home Secretary Theresa May said the action was “shameful” as it threatens disruption to people travelling to London fo…

Nicole Kidman looks younger than ever at Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

Nicole Kidman attended the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games and she looked younger than ever

. Nicole Kidman refused to get involved in the divorce drama unfurling between Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes, even though there are echoes of her 2001 split with the now 50-year-old movie star. Not least 33-year-old Katie Holmes’ decision to file for sole custody of the couple’s daughter Suri, six, after Nicole Kidman lost primary residence of her two adopted children with Tom Cruise, Isabella…

Olympics 2012: additional armed forces in stand by for London Olympics

Armed forces in UK are on standby to provide an additional 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 London Olympics

Armed forces in UK are on standby to provide an additional 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 London Olympics. It comes amid fears that private contractor G4S would not be able to provide enough trained staff in time. The armed forces were already providing some 13,500 personnel – this could now reach 17,000, meaning summer leave for some troops will likely be cancelled. G4S sai…

Olympics 2012: Danny Boyle apologizes over Olympic ceremony leaks

Danny Boyle, artistic director of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, has apologized to volunteers over "spoilers" appearing in the press

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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…

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…

Olympics 2012: Hyde Park concert kicks off London Games

Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics and Paolo Nutini are celebrating the start of London Olympic Games at a special concert in Hyde Park this evening

…g Cars and Run, the band said the event was “really special.” “It’s the only thing I’ll ever represent Northern Ireland at,” said frontman Gary Lightbody. “My 100 metre sprinting days are long past me.” “We were asked to represent our country, we’re never going to say no to that,” he added. “The world is looking in on our nati…

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 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: London Games kick off with women’s football

Women’s football is the first event of the Olympics and is to kick off later, two days before the official opening ceremony

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…

German dignitary gives “Nazi” salute to Olympic team at the Opening Ceremony

A German dignitary at the Olympic Opening Ceremony appeared to greet his country's athletes with a Nazi salute

…are rather proud of the diversity of our city £nothingleftwingaboutit,” he tweeted in reply. Aidan Burley lost his job as a parliamentary private secretary after media reports of the party on December 3 last year in a restaurant in the French Alpine resort of Val Thorens, at which one guest is alleged to have dressed in an SS uniform and others are said to have chanted Nazi slogans. The Cannock Ch…

Olympics 2020: Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo on the shortlist for hosting the games

Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo will compete to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics after Qatar's Doha and Azerbaijan's Baku were cut from the list

Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo will compete to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics after Qatar’s Doha and Azerbaijan’s Baku were cut from the list on Wednesday. The shortlist was announced at the International Olympic Committee’s executive meeting in Quebec City. Doha and Baku were rejected for a second time in a row after failing to make the final list for the 2016 Games. The wi…

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: Zara Phillips represents GB eventing team and she will stay in the athletes village

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, 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…

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…

Queen parachute stunt at the Olympics was kept secret from her family, says Lord Sebastian Coe

When Queen Elizabeth appeared to parachute into the Olympic Stadium this summer it was hailed as one of the greatest moments in British television history

When Queen Elizabeth appeared to parachute into the Olympic Stadium this summer it was hailed as one of the greatest moments in British television history. As part of the lavish London 2012 opening ceremony the Queen was shown jumping from a helicopter with James Bond actor Daniel Craig, but ever since there has been mystery surrounding how, exactly, she was persuaded to do it – until now….

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…

Bond girl Queen Elizabeth II receives BAFTA award for lifelong support of British film and TV

Queen Elizabeth II has received an honorary BAFTA award for her lifelong support of the British film and television industry

…take it further into the world of British films that they have a number of scripts with them here this evening. I have to warn you, Your Majesty, not all of these films are fully financed.” The 300 guests represented all areas of the industry including actors, directors, writers, producers, costume and set designers, publicists and critics. Homeland star Damian Lewis, who attended the event…

Rio Olympics 2016 Theme Song Released: The Gods of Olympus Visit Rio de Janeiro

London Olympics 2012 has hardly even had time to enjoy its success and already Rio is attempting to steal its shine, earlier this week releasing the official theme song for the 2016 Olympics

London Olympics 2012 has hardly even had time to enjoy its success and already Rio is attempting to steal its shine, earlier this week releasing the official theme song for the 2016 Olympics. As can be expected, the new song and video showcase the typical laid-back, tropical style associated with the South American gem. The Gods of Olympus Visit Rio de Janeiro, as the song is called, was written…

Olympics 2012: Angelina Jolie invites Kate Middleton to her Olympic party

Angelina Jolie has invited the Duchess of Cambridge to the Olympics party she is throwing alongside fiancé Brad Pitt

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