April 18: London 2012 Olympic Games organizers will hold a series of events to kick off the Games’ 100-day countdown as preparations for the showpiece event enter the final straight. The milestone will be marked across the United Kingdom and internationally with a host of ceremonial activities and an array of test events to iron [...]
The London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony will be called ‘The Isles of Wonder’. Danny Boyle the artistic director for the spectacular opening ceremony said the theme came from Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ and that the show would celebrate the whole of the UK. Boyle is the Oscar winning Movie Director of Slumdog Millionaire. Boyle also [...]
About Design: London 2012 Olympic Medals is the biggest Summer Olympics medals to date. The designer David Watkins said that the key symbols on front and back juxtapose the goddess Nike, for the spirit and tradition of the Games, and the River Thames, for the city of London. The London 2012 logo is shown against [...]
Famous English Swimmer Keri-Anne Payne became the first Briton to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games. The 23 year old swimmer triumphed in the 10k long open water race at the World Championships meet at Shanghai in China and securing her place at next year’s Grand Olympic Games. 2008 Beijing Olympics silver medal winner [...]
The Open water swimming race event is the toughest event in the Olympic games. The Event was given olympic status in Beijing Olympics in 2008 where the race starts with a fight. The 10 KM long aquatic marathon which the anarchic scramble of 50 swimmers scrambling to find clear water for them. This often results [...]
Olympic Games organizers suffered fresh embarrassment when their ticketing website struggled to process applications for 1.4million seats for the London 2012 Olympics Football Tournament. Despite assurances given on Sunday that the problems that had crashed the ticket website earlier in January had been resolved, potential purchasers yesterday were alarmed to encounter repeated “error” messages and [...]
Just a few months to go for the London 2012 Olympics and doubts are being raised on the organizers as the Indian shooting contingent was not given accommodation in a hotel in London and were made to wait in the lobby for close to seven hours. The shooting contingent returns home after the organizers failed [...]
Team Great Britain (Team GB) will warm up for the upcoming London 2012 Olympic football tournament with a double-header friendly matches at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, with Stuart Pearce’s men’s team playing against Brazil and Hope Powell’s women taking on Sweden. It will mark the first time a Great Britain men’s Olympic football team [...]
April 18: London 2012 Olympic Games organizers will hold a series of events to kick off the Games’ 100-day countdown as preparations for the showpiece event enter the final straight. The milestone will be marked across the United Kingdom and internationally with a host of ceremonial activities and an array of test events to iron [...]
Only Six Months left for the Games of the XXX Olympiad or 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Only 182 days i.e only 6 months left for the grand London 2012 Olympic Games. The London 2012 Olympics will began on 27 July and the greatest show on earth will continue to 12 August 2012. More than 205 [...]
The London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony will be called ‘The Isles of Wonder’. Danny Boyle the artistic director for the spectacular opening ceremony said the theme came from Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ and that the show would celebrate the whole of the UK. Boyle is the Oscar winning Movie Director of Slumdog Millionaire. Boyle also [...]
Dow Chemical Row now hits London 2012 Olympic directly. Meredith Alexander said she was quitting the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012. She was a commissioner for a body monitoring the London 2012 Olympic Games. She has resigned from her post over links with Dow Chemical. Some Politicians in India and UK says Do is [...]
Dow Chemical as a Sponsor in London 2012 Olympics. Indian government has instructed Indian Olympics Association to raise the issue of Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the 2012 London Games with the London 2012 organizers. The sports ministry told the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to convey its concerns, saying there was “strong public sentiment” on the [...]
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt says he wants to try and become a “legend” by winning four Olympic gold medals at the next year’s London 2012 Olympic Games. The triple Olympic gold medallist of 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bolt wants to run for the Jamaican 4x400m team, as well as competing in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. [...]
London 2012 Olympics boss Sebastian Coe a.k.a Lord Coe while launching a promotion in a mid-land school said that he never felt the game (London 2012 Olympics) are London centric. Lord Coe said: “I’ve never felt the games are London-centric….” But he insisted that the Olympics would not be “London-centric”. The figure released in July [...]
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