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London 2012 OlympicsInformation, news and affairs relating to the London 2012 Olympics27 July - 12 August 2012 - London, Great Britain |
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Snowboarding, skiing, bobsleighing hero follows success of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn’s Beijing Olympics monkey
The BBC is to promote its Winter Olympics coverage with an animated clip featuring an Inuit hero on a mission, after the success of the monkey cartoon that backed the broadcast of the Beijing Olympics.
The 40-second clip will break tonight on [...]
Olympic cycling champion Rebecca Romero says she is targeting the time trial event at September’s World Road Championships in Melbourne.
How British cycling is plotting to replicate its track success and conquer the world on the road
With a £150m move to Salford prompting staffing and financial turmoil, the BBC faces a tricky 2010
A BBC presenter with a £16.9m contract may have dominated headlines over the past few days but the corporation also starts the new year with a project costing upwards of £150m increasingly mired in political controversy. Tonight marks a [...]
Channel 4 will bring the Paralympics enthusiasm and innovation – its coverage should be good for the games and the network
Snatching the 2012 London Paralympics from under the noses of the BBC is a real feather in Channel 4’s cap. And should give a tremendous boost to an event which has been gaining significantly in [...]
Broadcaster pledges that Paralympics will ‘take over Channel 4 for their duration’ after snapping up rights
Channel 4 has won the rights to broadcast the 2012 Paralympics games.
Although the BBC has the rights for the 2012 Olympics, the Paralympic broadcast rights were put out to tender.
Channel 4 announced today that it had been awarded the rights [...]
The London 2012 Organising Committee has awarded the UK broadcast rights to Channel 4 following a highly competitive tender process.
Paralympic Cycling – Road
The underpass has been constructed in the north-east corner of the Park and forms part of the Olympic Park Loop Road – a new route that will provide access around the Park during and after the Games.
Nick Cohen’s article (“The IRA’s culture of silence extended to child abuse“, Comment) would have been more powerful had he included the fact that sexual violence against children does not have political allegiances. Surely you cannot be so naive as to imagine the Protestants and their armies have no paedophiles? Nor the police? And that [...]
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