Olympic Games

Transforming London Into the “best Big City on Earth”

services centre drives more than £200bn of revenue into the UK economy each year. Although central London is booming with business activity, parts of the city are still struggling. Contrary to popular belief London’s streets...

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Speed skater Hughes locks up Olympic berth

By Terry Bell, Vancouver ProvinceNovember 21, 2009 5:34 PM Photograph by: Toussaint Kluiters, Reuters Canadian speed skater Clara Hughes qualified for her fifth Olympic Games on Saturday with a fourth-place finish in a World...

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The guts but not the glory for Brownlee

No one glanced up from their skinny lattes or did a double-take in mid-sudoku when Britain's most accomplished world champion walked into his local Starbucks. Even if they had, they wouldn't have recognised him. "No one ever...

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Panasonic to Launch Marketing Campaign for Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Tokyo, Nov 20, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Panasonic Corporation, the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Audio and Visual Equipment category for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, announced it will bring its Full HD 3D...

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Management Consultant Helps Andrew Godbout Improve Chances Of Going To Olympic Games

After winning the 2005 Canadian 300-metre inline skating championship, he was invited to try out for the Own the Podium recruitment program, aimed at introducing athletes to long-track speed skating for the 2010 Olympics in...

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Interview: Dave Wiens and Susan DeMattei

Dave Wiens is the Colorado mountain bike racer who beat Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong in the 2007 and 2008 Leadville 100 races, and his wife Susan DeMattei is no slouch on a bike either – her riding career peaked with a...

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The genius behind the incredible sets for U2, Rolling Stones and Olympics

Nov 21 2009 Brian Mciver HE MADE the Earth revolve around a bird's nest in Beijing, brought the world's biggest rock band into Scotland on a claw and is the man every pop star wants on their team. Mark Fisher might just be the...

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Top Ja stars for Diamond League

MONTE CARLO: At least four Jamaicans - Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Shelly-Ann Fraser and Brigitte Foster-Hylton - appear set to be contracted for next year's IAAF Diamond League.Since last year, Bolt has taken athletics to...

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Lyo and Merly to be mascots for inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Games

By Patwant Singh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 21 November 2009 1929 hrs SINGAPORE: The mascots for the world's first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore next year have been revealed. One is a male Lion called Lyo and the other a...

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Female ski jumpers hear reasons for case dismissal

Ski jumpers Katie Willis, right, of Calgary, Alta., and Jessica Jerome, of Park City, Utah, look on after a British Columbia Court of Appeal denied a bid to have women's ski jumping included in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic...

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