Category: Competition
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London shortening Olympic Opening Ceremony to end on time
Oscar-winning director of “Slumdog Millionaire” has been forced to trim parts of the ceremony – including removal of a stunt bike sequence – to make sure the show finishes on time and spectators can get home before public transportation shuts down. London organizers said Boyle was “tightening” the ceremony by up to 30 minutes to…
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CC photo #200: A tame duck outside the Faroe Champs 2012
No, not a lame duck but a tame duck outside the main doors of the swimming pool in Tórshavn during the Faroese (Short Course) Championships 2012. Someone fed it bread, maybe even cake, but when we went inside a gull dove down and stole it all.
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The London 2012 marketing moratorium begins
A period nicknamed “the blackout” started today in which athletes competing in the games may not appear in any advertising by companies that are not official Olympic sponsors. To understand what this means, consider Michael Phelps: Subway has long sponsored the Olympic swimmer, but it’s not an Olympic sponsor. That means no Subway ads featuring…
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Countdown for the London 2012 Olympic Games
Four-time gold medallist Michael Johnson takes us through 26-minutes of London’s road to staging the greatest sporting show on the planet. Including exclusive interviews with Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, David Beckham, Jessica Ennis, Vivian Cheruiyot, Danny Boyle, Seb Coe and others, the programme promises to be a mouthwatering appetiser for the London 2012 Olympic Games.…
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Video Archive: Judy Grinham, Melbourne 1956 Olympic Champion
At the age of 17, Judy Grinham became the first British woman since 1924 to win an Olympic swimming gold medal, setting a world record en route to the 100m backstroke title at the 1956 Melbourne Games. When she returned to London airport on 16 December, she was greeted by enthusiastic relations, friends from the…
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Federica Pellegrini to take a year off after the Olympics
Read La Gazzetta dello Sport “I’m stopping next year. If I want to carry on swimming long into the future, I need to take a year’s sabbatical, a year completely dedicated to me, when I’ll put myself first. The World Championships take place next year, and I’ll just focus on trying to make it into…
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Early London 2012 arrivers treated with a 4-hour Tour of the City
Interesting story off The Telegraph, via GoSwim on Twitter Competitors from Australia and the United States were on buses that took almost four hours to get from Heathrow Airport to the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, despite being able to use a newly-opened Games lane on the M4. It should take less than an…
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CC photo #199: Prime Minister Kaj Leo Johannesen examines Pál’s Budapest 2010 silver medal
The Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands examining the 1500 meter freestyle silver medal that Pál Joensen won in Budapest, at a private reception in Tinganes. Kaj Leo Johannesen is a local sports celebrity himself, part of the national soccer team that won over Austria back in 1990 (the year when Pál was born, coincidentally…
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