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the result was read out. It was such an exhilarating feeling. Though, after the celebrations drew to a close, I decided to take took a closer look at the winning bid. "Why was it so successful?" I asked myself. After collecting and putting all the pieces of the bid together, I'm convinced that...
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport Friday. The ruling overturns a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Building an Olympic Games is no mean feat. And a lot of the London Olympics site is on contaminated land which has first to be cleaned up before any building work can begin. The task for the 2012 London Olympics is so massive that the Construction Skills Network currently believes that the...
CHICAGO -- Chicago Olympic organizers are on track to spend about $58 million trying to lure the 2016 Summer Games to the Midwest. According to the group's Internal Revenue Service filing released Friday, the Chicago 2016 Exploratory Committee spent about $9 million during the initial phase of...
Construction and engineering group Balfour Beatty - which has just won the contract to build the London Olympics Aquatics Centre - is the latest company to raise cash. It has placed 43.3m shares with institutions to raise £186m and bolster its balance sheet after paying cash for a number of...
LONDON -- Construction of the aquatics venue for the 2012 London Olympics will begin this summer after city officials approved the plan. The 17,500-capacity center will host swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, the water polo finals and the swimming portion of the modern pentathlon. The...
MOG Solutions demonstrated during NAB 2008 the new version of TOBOGGAN, packed with the new features developed according to the requirements of NBC. The new TOBOGGAN will operate at the core of NBC’s New Media based coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games. Announced in the Summer of 2007 of MOG...
Richard Caborn had a vision when he was sports minister - a multi-sport UK School Games complete with an athletes' village and this summer, those games will take place for the third time in Bristol and Bath. ... By Gareth A Davies Have your say Read comments Richard...
VISITORS to a North-East town could be in for a big-screen treat if plans are approved prior to this summer's Olympics. Middlesbrough has been chosen as one of the key sites in the BBC's Public Space Broadcasting Project, which has already seen screens put up in cities including Manchester,...
VISITORS to a North-East town could be in for a giant television treat if plans for a huge screen get the go-ahead prior to this summer's Olympics. ... Middlesbrough has been chosen as one of the key sites in the BBC's Public Space Broadcasting Project, which has already...
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