Bolt starts season with 400m win
Olympic and world 100m and 200m champion Usain Bolt opens his 2010 season with victory in the 400m at the Camperdown Classic in Jamaica.
Nine Thousand Cops To Patrol London 2012 (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
London could see up to 9,000 police and 7,000 special officers on the streets for the Olympics.
Letters: Child abuse is not the sole province of the IRA
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 [...]
Rock defeats Phelps but USA win Duel in the Pool (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Britain’s Michael Rock achieved a rare victory over swimming legend Michael Phelps but the USA won the ‘Duel in the Pool’ which ended here on Saturday.
Winning Olympic Park garden designs announced
Thousands of votes were cast online to choose the winners of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Olympic Park Great British Garden Competition.
Brazilian newspapers celebrate a rise in circulation
Print media booms in South America’s biggest economy
The historic Olympic Games win for Rio de Janeiro, which prompted thousands of revellers to turn Copacabana beach into a giant party, is not the only reason why Brazilian journalists are celebrating.
In contrast to consumers in Europe and the US, the people of Brazil are reading newspapers in [...]
Diamond Geezer’s Olympics vision
A look into the future:
2000 days after – Wednesday 17th January 2018Everybody’s talking about the Olympics…but the buzz is no longer about London. It’s the Winter Games opening ceremony in Reykjavik tomorrow. Do you think Brooklyn Beckham has a chance in the Snowboard Freestyle?
West Ham are playing midweek football at their new 25,000 seater stadium [...]
Olympic Park health and safety programme launched
The health and safety educational programme for thousands of children living near the Olympic Park site has returned for a second year.
Town wants Olympic cruise liners
A Kent council which hopes to attract thousands of tourists during the 2012 Olympic Games wants cruise liners to be able to dock alongside its historic pier.
Bolt keen to compete in long jump
Usain Bolt reveals he may compete in the long jump after dominating the sprint events in the World Championships and at the 2008 Olympics.
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