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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">London (Monday, July 30) - China maintained their top position on medals table after day 2 of the London 2012 Olympic Games followed by USA and Italy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China is on top with total 12 medals, Gold 6 Silver 4 Bronze 2. China's six Gold medals came in Diving, Shooting and Swimming, two in each. China's Z<span class="capitalise">i He, M<span class="capitalise">inxia Wu won Gold in Diving, W<span class="capitalise">enjun Guo, <span class="capitalise">Siling Yi won Gold in Shooting and Y<span class="capitalise">ang Sun, S<span class="capitalise">hiwen Ye won Gold medals in Swimming.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">USA is on second spot with total 11 medals, Gold 3 Silver 5 Bronze 3. America's two Gold medals came in Swimming and one came in Shooting. America's Ryan Lochte and Dana Vollmer<span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise"> won Gold in Swimming, while Kimberly Rhode <span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise">won Gold in Shooting<span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise"><span class="capitalise"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Italy is currenly spotted on number three in terms of medals won with their 7 medals, Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze 2. Italy's two Gold medals came in Archery and Fencing, one each in both events. Italy's Archery Team - M<span class="capitalise">ichele Frangilli, M<span class="capitalise">arco Galiazzo, M<span class="capitalise">auro Nespoli - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="capitalise">The hosts, Great Britain, are still in the hunt of their first Gold; but they have won one Silver and One Bronze already.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">London (Sunday, Jul 29) - The 16-year-old Table Tennis player Ariel Hsing from U.S. showed her guts in the third round match against Chinese veteran Li Xiaoxia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one would have ver think that the battle between Ariel Hsing, ranked 114th, and the World No. 2 Li Xiaoxia would be that interesting and nerve-wrecking in the end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hsing, an American from the Bay Area, was heavily supported by the crowd - including Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates and American billionaire Warren Buffett - eventually fell to a valiant 4-2 defeat after giving Xiaoxia a very tough time through out the best-of-seven match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Xiaoxia and Hsing split the first four sets. Despite a great comeback attempt late in the fifth set, Xiaoxia battled back to win and go up 3-2. She then won the sixth set to clinch a victory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gates said "Ever since we (he and Buffett) first played with her we have supported her ever since."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking directly to Hsing, he added: 'You were so amazing.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a tough loss for Hsing, but she has an incredibly bright future in table tennis. Look for her to come back better than ever when the 2016 Olympics begin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">London (Sunday, Jul 29) - Yesterday (Saturday, July 28), the first official day of London 2012 Olympics Games) was a full day of excitement and action. Top class athletes from all over the world fought their hearts out to win the honor for their respective countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Day 1 of the London Olympics clearly belongs to China, leading the medal tally with six medals, four gold and two bronze, followed by Italy with two gold, two silver and one bronze. Team USA has collected one gold, two silver and two bronze and positioned thrid on the medal tally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Phelps finished fourth, failing to win a medal in an event for the first time since the 2000 Sydney games. It breaks a streak of 16 medals in 16 events, 14 gold and two bronze. Phelps will have a chance to redeem himself when the two men face off again in the 200m Individual Medley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The US Men's Archery team came incredibly close to winning Team USA's second gold, losing to Italy in the Gold Medal match by a single point. Jacob Wukie, Brady Ellison and Jake Kaminski had to settle for the Silver Medal.</span></div>
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Pakistan have reacted strongly after a UK tabloid has unfolded a major visa
scam, involving a gang of dishonest officials and politicians, which could ease
the entry of ‘potential terrorists’ in UK with Pakistan’s Olympic squad as support
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Twelve (12) employees of the National Database and Regulatory Authority
(NADRA) have been suspended, including General Manager Lahore region, reportedly
for an alleged involvement in the UK visa scam for London 2012 Olympic games. </div>
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Taking a serious notice on the issue Rehman Malik, Senior Adviser to the PM
on Interior, has also formed a Joint Investigation Team (JIT), headed by
Director General FIA, to probe the case and register an FIR against those
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According to details; ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sun</i>’
reported on Monday that they have infiltrated a crime ring offering false
passports, visas and access to London 2012 as bogus support staff. They have
also exposed a ring of crooked Pakistani officials and travel staff plotting
the fraud with the help of a well-known politician to get around strict
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LONDON, UK (Wed, Jul 18) – With just less than 10 days before the opening
ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, security concerns have outshone the
preparations for one of the biggest sporting event in the world, leaving
the British government majorly humiliated.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">London 2012: Security Concerns Heightened after G4S Fails to Provide Sufficient Staff</td></tr>
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G4S, a private security firm, was awarded a $442m contract to provide much
of the security for the event. Thousands of team officials and athletes from
all over the world will arrive this week, and masses of visitors are expected
to follow. But should they be worried?</div>
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The failure of G4S to deliver enough security staff to cover Olympic venues
has raised the debate once again about the role of the private sector in
delivering public services. Contrast to the contract G4S said it has only
about 4,000 guards trained and ready, although it claims to have 7,000 fully qualified
security staff by the time the Games kick off on July 27.</div>
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G4S failure to recruit, train and scrutinize enough staff on timely basis forced
the British government to declare last week that it was arranging an extra
3,500 troops on a very short notice to cover the difference.</div>
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Now the 17,000 British military personnel deployed for the Games - about
7,500 more British soldiers than there are currently in Afghanistan - are to
help out with the security checks and stewarding at venues, as well as
specialist tasks such as bomb disposal and sniffer dog searches.</div>
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According to Al Jazeera; the British home secretary Theresa May came under
further pressure as it was unfolded that the Home Office had been informed
about this concern as early as 10 months ago.</div>
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While the recruitment failure by G4S is highly embarrassing for the company
-- and led its share price to drop sharply -- the Games' organizers insist that
their contingency planning will keep everyone safe, CNN reported.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The blunder is likely to cost G4S nearly $78m as
the company will have to reimburse the government for the extra military
deployment.</span></span></div>
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Olympics, Security at London Olympics, G4S Security firm, Theresa May, British
Government, <strong></strong><br />
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</div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073346 -0.127683151.3492066 -0.4435401 51.6654626 0.1881739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-4697832807375044202012-07-17T09:46:00.002-07:002012-07-17T09:46:19.374-07:00London 2012 Olympic Games: Medal Count Table<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The following table will be updated twice a day and will display the full medal standings once the London 2012 Olympic Games begin, revealing which athletes and countries are leading the way in the pursuit of glory at London Olympics 2012.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To know today's the medal count, please click HERE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the meantime, please go through the medal count at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.</span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Medal Count Table</td></tr>
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</div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073346 -0.127683151.3492066 -0.4435401 51.6654626 0.1881739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-51277494177515537022012-07-17T09:07:00.002-07:002012-07-17T09:15:52.497-07:00Complete/Full Schedule of London 2012 Olympic Games (Day wise and Category wise)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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London 2012 Olympic Games are scheduled to start officially on July 27
(Friday) and will last for 17 days ending on August 12, 2012. </div>
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Opening and closing ceremonies will be held on July 27 and August 12
respectively. Athletes from all over the world will compete to establish their
excellence in 36 different categories. </div>
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Complete schedule of London 2012 Olympic Games is given below. Here you can
find day-wise and category-wise schedule. For the schedule of any day, please
click <a href="http://all-olympix.blogspot.com/search/label/Today%27s%20Schedule" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Complete Schedule of London 2012 Olympic Games (Click to enlarge for a better view)</td></tr>
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</div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073346 -0.127683151.3492066 -0.4435401 51.6654626 0.1881739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-2734993563880021922012-06-12T22:03:00.002-07:002012-06-12T22:04:12.383-07:002012 London Olympics: Maria Sharapova likely to carry Russian flag at opening ceremony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">According to RIA Novosti; Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova is a leading contender to carry the
Russian flag at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in
London, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told R-Sport on Tuesday.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2012 London Olympics: French Open champion Maria Sharapova likely to carry Russian flag at opening ceremony</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While </span><span style="font-size: small;">Russia's tennis chief Shamil Tarpishchev said on Tuesday that </span><span style="font-size: small;">Sharapova will be the Russian
delegation's flag-bearer at next month's Olympic opening ceremony in
London, Russia's tennis chief Shamil Tarpishchev said on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">'Tennis
is a very popular sport and, so as far as I know, Roger Federer has
been chosen to carry the Swiss flag and Rafa Nadal will lead the Spanish
delegation at the opening ceremony in London," Tarpishchev, a member of
the International Olympic Committee, was quoted as saying by local
media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Carrying the flag is considered a great honour in Russia and it is
tradionally given to famous athletes, mostly men, such as Greco-Roman
wrestler Alexander Karelin and swimmer Alexander Popov, who have won
numerous Olympic titles.
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Russians might break the tradition by choosing Sharapova, who won the French Open title last weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Olympic tennis tournament will be
played on the grass courts at Wimbledon where, as a 17-year-old,
Sharapova stunned Serena Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final to win her
maiden grand slam title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the end of the day Vitaly Mutko said the Russian Olympic Committee
(ROC) would make the final decision on the flag-bearer next month.
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</div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0Moscow, Russia55.7427928 37.615400955.4567773 36.983686899999995 56.028808299999994 38.2471149tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-25165499342638048222012-05-28T23:56:00.000-07:002012-05-28T23:56:23.740-07:00Aaron Cook “the only choice” for the British Olympic taekwondo squad in London 2012: Sir Steve Redgrave<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">LONDON (Tue, May 29) - Sir Steve Redgrave has called for Aaron Cook to be selected for the British
Olympic taekwondo squad, describing the world No 1 as “the only choice” for
London 2012. </span></h2>
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The endorsement of Britain’s most decorated Olympian comes as Cook awaits the
outcome of a British Olympic Association hearing on Tuesday that could
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Cook has been controversially omitted from the four-member squad nominated by
GB Taekwondo despite an appeal, and has called on the BOA to overturn that
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A BOA panel will meet on Tuesday to examine the reasons for Cook’s omission,
and has the power to reject the athlete nominated instead, Lutalo Muhammad.<br />
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Cook, who competed in the Beijing <b>Olympics</b>
aged just 17, is the European champion and will be officially named as world
No 1 on Friday.</div>
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Muhammad is also a European Champion but not at -80kg and is 93rd in the
Olympic rankings. While he has beaten Cook this season and is promising, he
has less experience in the -80kg category.<br />
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Olympic stadium to be used for the 2012 London Olympics Games was formally
opened on Saturday by a 9-year-old schoolgirl who lives down the road. The
stadium was opened 82 days (2,012 hours) ahead of the scheduled kick off of the
event in July 27.<br />
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Niamh Clarke-Willis from east London
stood along Lord Sebastian Coe on stage during a unique event at the venue
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Over 40,000 spectators watched as a flow of white balloons
exactly 2,012 hours before the Games begin. Capping off an evening of music,
comedy and fun sports events, Paralympic gold medal-winning archer Danielle
Brown shot arrows at spinning targets to select the name of a youngster in the
audience to open the east London
stadium. Niamh Clarke-Willis emerged as the lucky one to join the Lord Coe on
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Coe, himself an Olympic gold medallist, said it felt "barely
believable" to be opening the stadium, adding: "I'm just so grateful
to everybody who's come here tonight to help us celebrate this moment in
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"The seven years have just flown by," he said. "Tonight is
only the start of the story. We want thousands of young people to be inspired
to take up sport. We hope that for a few of them it will be the start of their
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Saturday's event, named "2012 Hours to Go: An Evening of Athletics and
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transport system ahead of the Games as the Underground train network's Jubilee
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The crowds at the stadium watched as Olympic rowing champion Steve Redgrave
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and sport stars in a series of fun contests to test out the running track.</div>
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Former Spice Girl Melanie C and comedian Jack Whitehall performed, while the
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</div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5081289 -0.12800551.350006900000004 -0.443862 51.6662509 0.187852tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-23661526371013452212012-03-03T01:27:00.001-08:002012-03-03T01:31:13.751-08:00Hiroshi Hoketsu to compete in 2012 London Olympics at the age of 71: Japanese Equestrian Federation (JEF)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">TOKYO, Japan (sat, Mar. 03) – There are no age boundaries for those who keep themselves actively ‘alive’ and world is full of such stories when elderly people set examples for their youngsters in every walk of life.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> The recent example is a Japanese rider Hiroshi Hoketsu, who will turn 71 at the end of March. According to the Japanese Equestrian Federation (JEF); Hoketsu has earned a place in 2012 London Olympics by standing number one in the International Equestrian Federation's individual dressage rankings for Asia-Oceania.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Hoketsu, was also the oldest contestant at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with 67 years and 4 months of age, Hailed as the "hope of old men," He has already participated in two Olympics, 44 years apart.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Japanese rider, based in Germany, topped the rankings after winning an event at an international dressage meeting in France on Thursday He was not available for comment straightaway. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hoketsu finished 40<sup>th</sup> in show-jumping at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and in 2008 at Beijing he placed ninth in team dressage and 35<sup>th</sup> in individual dressage. He was also selected as a replacement for the 1984 Los Angeles Games but did not participate, and had to pull out from the 1988 Seoul Olympics when his horse had a quarantine problem.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Read more about this aspiring Japanese rider below:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jgVG0xQP_zIJpgZXKTIzZebfZkkA?docId=CNG.7190a44d169f734923070785c525aa40.531">AFP</a></div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0Tokyo, Japan35.6894875 139.6917063999999329.852282499999998 138.03869139999992 41.526692499999996 141.34472139999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-88166492250268417082012-01-08T05:28:00.000-08:002012-01-08T05:28:30.485-08:00Gold Medallist Dame Kelly Holmes' Charity Trust to Get Support from Pippa Middleton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LONDON, UK (Jan. 08) – Pippa Middleton is set to lend her hand for the charity of the former British Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes in the run up to the<a href="http://all-olympix.blogspot.com/"> 2012 London Olympics</a>, the double gold medallist said in an interview published Saturday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kate Midlleton’s younger sister will help improve the profile of the ‘Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust’, which guides young underprivileged sportsmen, in the months leading up to this year's Olympics scheduled in July.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dame Kelly talking to Daily Telegraph said, “Pippa is going to be doing something for my own charity leading up to the Games. I'm not really supposed to talk about it yet, so I can't tell you anymore.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://kpjmiddleton.blogspot.com/search/label/Pippa%20Middleton">Pippa Middleton</a>, the sporty and active figure, has participated in quite a few events and road races during last few months and is reportedly in the running to join Dame Kelly, while the Duchess of Cambridge, Princes William and Prince Harry as an official ambassador for the Games.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Continue reading below:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://kpjmiddleton.blogspot.com/2012/01/sporty-pippa-middleton-comes-forward-to.html"><span style="font-size: large;">All about Middletons</span></a> </span></div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.508129 -0.1280050000000301251.3644275 -0.37787450000003009 51.651830499999996 0.12186449999996987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-31321371902700571872011-12-20T07:11:00.000-08:002011-12-20T07:11:52.969-08:002012 Olympics Event Won't Help Britain to Boost Tourism: VisitBritain, UK Tourist Authority<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LONDON, UK (Dec. 20) – Despite of the two biggest events in decades to be hosted by the Britain; the country is not expecting any increase in the number of tourists visiting next year, the UK tourist authority said on Tuesday. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to VisitBritain; the events like Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and <a href="http://all-olympix.blogspot.com/">2012 Olympic</a> Games in the months of June and July-August respectively will adorn the UK calendar in next year, but neither of these big moments will produce a large boom in tourists from abroad.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The UK tourist authority has estimated that 30.7 million tourists will head to Britain next year, approximately the same number who have recorded as visiting over the last 12 months.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The authority puts this projected stagnation down to the Olympics being as much a turn-off for some would-be tourists as they are a reason to travel for others.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The government has already announced a £100million marketing fund to bring in tourists over the next four years – although the economic benefit of next year’s 30.7million visitors is expected to be just £17.6million.</span></div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.508129 -0.1280050000000301251.3644275 -0.37787450000003009 51.651830499999996 0.12186449999996987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-52189151194463698432011-10-06T02:09:00.000-07:002011-11-10T02:00:39.361-08:00American Athlete LaShawn Merritt Won Appeal against an International Olympic Committee Doping Law<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:ApplyBreakingRules/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The IOC's rule had barred any athlete who has received a doping suspension of more than six months from competing in the next Games.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The American, 25, believed it went beyond World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) sanctions of a maximum two-year ban.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The outcome could force British chiefs to re-think their regulations.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Source of this news report given below: </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><br />
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<div closure_uid_24d6i8="237" closure_uid_ky9fur="198" style="text-align: justify;"><span closure_uid_24d6i8="252" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Riots spread in Croydon, Peckham and Lewisham in the south of the city, while gangs of looters roamed the streets of Hackney in the east, Clapham in the south, Camden in the north and Ealing in the west.</span></div><div closure_uid_24d6i8="237" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_24d6i8="241" style="text-align: justify;"><span closure_uid_24d6i8="239" closure_uid_ky9fur="163" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rioters not only set different buildings on fire but also looting spree was reported in the areas hit by the worst rioting in the capital in years.</span></div><div closure_uid_24d6i8="241" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div closure_uid_24d6i8="241" style="text-align: justify;"><span closure_uid_24d6i8="239" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To continue reading link is provided below:</span></div><div closure_uid_24d6i8="241" style="text-align: justify;"></div><script type="text/javascript">
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</div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="142" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has represented Team GB at the last two Olympics and hopes to be at the London 2012 party.</span></div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="142" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="141" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yvonne Turner and her husband have supported their son, with both time and money, since he joined Notts Athletic Club at the age of nine.</span></div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="141" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="140" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She said she was "the proudest person ever" but finds watching the big races difficult.</span></div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="140" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="139" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The pressure for me and Andy's dad is enormous. I get nervous and quite distressed," she said.</span></div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="139" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="146" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"He used to win quite a lot and it got to the stage where people didn't want to race him," she said.</span></div><div closure_uid_sglgqa="146" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Last week, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) announced Norwich as one of the evening celebration locations during the torch’s 70-day trip around Britain.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Norwich will be visited on July 4, the day after going to Peterborough, and the day before moving on to Ipswich.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The detailed route, including the places it will pass through and stop at between the main locations, is set to be announced later this year.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Now North Norfolk District Council’s chief executive Philip Burton has written to Locog chief executive Paul Deighton, urging him to ensure that the final route includes Cromer and other parts of the district.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In a letter signed by Cromer district councillors Helen Eales, John Lee, Keith Johnson and Benjie Cabbell-Manners, Mr Burton wrote: “Specifically, we would like to suggest that the journey from Peterborough is via King’s Lynn and Cromer and then to Norwich.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Read More >>>> <a href="http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/london_2012_organisers_urged_to_bring_the_olympic_torch_to_north_norfolk_1_903752">Here</a>. </div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-27433094513570904522011-05-24T09:26:00.000-07:002011-05-24T09:48:08.242-07:00London 2012 Olympics - - Four technical sections unveiled after schools competition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Four sections of the London 2012 mountain bike course at Hadleigh Farm, Essex, have been named The Rabbit Hole, Leap of Faith, Deanes Drop and The Breathtaker by local schoolchildren.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The 5km track was completed in March, with rocky, root-strewn drop-offs, tight, single track ascents and lightning-fast, swooping berms built by course designer Martin Seddon and his four-strong team.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And, with a test event planned for July 31, the course continues to take shape following a competition, run as part of the London 2012 Get Set programme, to name key technical sections.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Leap of Faith drop-off was named by Baddow Junior School, while the rocky Deanes Drop descent was named by the Deanes School.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Breathtaker climb was chosen by pupils at Hadleigh Junior School, while The Rabbit Hole, named by Chelmer Valley High School, is the tunnel section pictured left.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"The cyclists have to go over the top, go round the corner and then come back through," Chelmer Valley student Ed Humphreys told Inside the Games.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"So I came up with the name 'rabbit hole' because that's what a rabbit would do. It feels a great privilege to have that name seen across the world and I'm really pleased about it."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Hadleigh Farm International will see approximately 100 of the world's top riders, from 40-50 countries, take part in July's dress rehearsal.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Tickets, which go on sale through Ticketmaster from May 26, will cost between £10 and £20, giving fans the chance to sample world-class cross-country action 12 months before the Games.</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-28842782418200414112011-04-10T09:49:00.000-07:002011-04-10T09:49:35.352-07:00London 2012 Olympics - - Katie Long Vows to be Part of Great Britain Squad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvxG9EL-29D5wroke4JyxWmcDkkxylBNe317QFuyMpHjS_G7qCTYO8muMx1bW1Itf_XrPPT0MAcLbF476PhG2jiFPixAuPv-hEggWcuaR8buce7RDaCjmzp4924BqXUrPRVq8yGFpkLM/s1600/katie+long.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvxG9EL-29D5wroke4JyxWmcDkkxylBNe317QFuyMpHjS_G7qCTYO8muMx1bW1Itf_XrPPT0MAcLbF476PhG2jiFPixAuPv-hEggWcuaR8buce7RDaCjmzp4924BqXUrPRVq8yGFpkLM/s1600/katie+long.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Katie Long concedes there will be 14 disappointed hockey players come the London 2012 Olympics - but after sampling similar woe last year she is vowing not to be one of them.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Long enjoyed a dream summer in 2010 winning Champions Trophy bronze in July and bronze again at the World Cup in September both as part of an 18-strong England squad.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However with the team trimmed by two for the Commonwealth Games in October the 22-year-old suffered the heartache of being selected only as a reserve as England went on to claim another bronze.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Long knows only 16 again will be selected when England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland come together as Great Britain for the London 2012 Olympics in less than 500 days time.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Read More >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <a href="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/10042011/58/london-2012-long-ll-olympic-team.html">HERE</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-76218780466996026922011-03-16T02:41:00.000-07:002011-03-16T02:41:25.566-07:00London 2012 Olympics - 'The Greatest Tickets on Earth': Multi-million Pound Ticket Advertising Campaign Took Off<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><strong>LONDON - Gymnast Beth Tweddle is among the British stars to feature in London 2012's ticket advertising campaign, their biggest marketing campaign yet. </strong></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><strong></strong>The campaign will run for the next six weeks - tickets are on sale until April 26th - with the theme of 'the greatest tickets on earth'.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Organisers Locog have produced 13 different adverts supporting eight sports with leading British athletes, such as diver Tom Daley and gymnast Beth Tweddle, among the stars.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"The launch of Olympic tickets is an important milestone for us, and a key part of our commercial programme," said London 2012 commercial director Chris Townsend. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"We need to raise £500 million from ticket sales - this is a key revenue stream for the costs of staging and hosting the Games. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"We have developed a fair ticket pricing model, and are confident the public are as excited about the greatest tickets on earth as we are."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Educating fans about the ticket process is one of organisers Locog's current biggest challenges. Fans will have six weeks to apply and oversubscribed sessions will be allocated after a ballot.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Locog want to reinforce the message that tickets are only available from three official sources, the London 2012 website, short break packages from Thomas Cook and on-site hospitality run by Prestige Ticketing.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"We want this to be the greatest show on earth, not the greatest scam on earth, and we want these tickets to be bought by genuine sports fans, who want to be part of London 2012," said London 2012 chairman Seb Coe. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"I would urge caution, be sure about where you are buying tickets from and if they are not an official ticket seller, be safe and don't take a chance."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">London 2012 have also produced a series of films, featuring Olympic gold medalist Jonathan Edwards and comedian Miranda Hart, designed to make sure fans get the lowdown on how to apply for tickets.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-17977738531683469142011-03-14T05:56:00.000-07:002011-03-14T05:56:12.054-07:00London 2012 Olympics: 500 Days to Go - - Countdown Timer Unveiled at London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBjKfbWFr7tmenvNNSXwrQa_Q1I12_mcDZW3cqngYcYl_MF-2LoOE1hYc7SSTKFhCpJ_nWbFEb8ezCiN4uhKN5t77wojl3Ui1J5zYEbtI_0zgGcFriLjBKHmb50fp0HyvmAyxe0tRGkpM/s1600/london-2012-logoblink-selection.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBjKfbWFr7tmenvNNSXwrQa_Q1I12_mcDZW3cqngYcYl_MF-2LoOE1hYc7SSTKFhCpJ_nWbFEb8ezCiN4uhKN5t77wojl3Ui1J5zYEbtI_0zgGcFriLjBKHmb50fp0HyvmAyxe0tRGkpM/s320/london-2012-logoblink-selection.gif" width="282" /></a></div><div class="introduction" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A timer showing the 500 days to go until the 2012 Olympics is being unveiled in London, but why are these countdowns so beguiling, asks John Morton, writer of comedy Twenty Twelve.</div><div class="introduction" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Remember Ken Livingstone's "live" running unemployment total on the old GLC building in London? Or there's the US National Debt Clock in Times Square. Or the live stock market prices and world financial indices snaking their way around the walls of the Thompson Reuters building in Canary Wharf. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There seems to be something hypnotic about watching history unfolding digitally in real time before our eyes. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="story_continues_1" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">But it's the clocks that count downwards towards a fixed point that really seem to have us in their thrall. How else could Countdown's 30-second analogue clock face with its plinky plonky musical accompaniment have dominated afternoon television for nearly 30 years as the procession of presenters, contestants, and fragrant letter-wranglers have come and gone beneath it. </div><div id="story_continues_1" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And then there was the Millennium. Remember the mounting fear, presented to us as a kind of world-wide ticking bomb, that when the digits on our computer clocks finally flicked over to 2,000 all our planes would suddenly fall out of the sky? </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And remember all those public Millennium clocks counting us down second by second through the final years, months, and days to the zero hour? The French had theirs ticking away outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Queen unveiled London's at Greenwich with a thousand days to go. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In Dublin they had the brilliant idea of installing theirs underwater so that the time on its green-illuminated face would shine up through the waters of the Liffey. Needless to say it let in water, failed to tell the time correctly, and quickly earned its nickname of "The Time in the Slime". </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Where are they all now? </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There's something both fascinating and unsettling going on here, and perhaps it's not so much to do with the clocks as with time itself, or the way we perceive it. Maybe there's something about the certainty, the unavoidabiltiy of that journey down towards zero that taps into something buried deep within the collective psyche. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Parachutists call it ground rush. Apparently while you're falling through the sky and before you open your parachute the perception is that you're dropping towards the ground at a perfectly manageable speed. Yes it's exhilarating, but there's plenty of time to look around you and take in the wonder of it all. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="story_continues_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">But that's an illusion caused by the lack of visual cues. It's only when you drop below a certain height and suddenly become aware that the ground is rushing up to meet you that you realise how fast you've been falling all along. </div><div id="story_continues_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">More sobering still, maybe there's an analogy here for the way we experience time over the course of a human life. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">For most of our lives we drift along on the assumption that there's always going to be time left ahead of us to develop, modify, and realise our many and varied dreams in that portion of it, still unused, called the future. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And we're happy enough with this arrangement right up to the point where we become aware that we've run out of future. What happened? Of course the ground has been rushing up towards us all along, we just didn't realise how fast we'd been falling. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Maybe it goes some way to explaining the lure of the countdown clock. A thousand days to go - still a long way away. Five hundred days - still pretty much still talking about the future. A hundred days - anybody know how many months that is? Fifty days - wait a minute, hang on, that's less eight weeks. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Suddenly we're not going to make this. What happened to all the time? </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So perhaps as Olympics fans watch the 500 days to go clock, they should have a quick glance at their to-do list.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-82445073582973874062011-03-12T04:42:00.000-08:002011-03-12T04:42:19.826-08:00InclusiveLondon.com: A Website Launched to Answer Querries About London 2012 Olympics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzi1_RNnicdkOtcKA6f5vReEugP5GnpbQ01eb2KjTxMd-fshEelilf7oKKsbmcVOTj92QOmDjUSGUFGrh1H23J30EHU8uH0PjPi32hhseycYfoawxPjdDFNVGOFiHX_iZzHb1utt9xRk/s1600/london-20121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzi1_RNnicdkOtcKA6f5vReEugP5GnpbQ01eb2KjTxMd-fshEelilf7oKKsbmcVOTj92QOmDjUSGUFGrh1H23J30EHU8uH0PjPi32hhseycYfoawxPjdDFNVGOFiHX_iZzHb1utt9xRk/s1600/london-20121.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">LONDON – InclusiveLondon.com has been launched; a website to assist sports fans searching out about how available facilities are at the London 2012 Olympic venues and tourist hotspots including the 2012 Games venues, hotels, restaurants, pubs, shops, museums and tourist attractions.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">London 2012's director of Paralympic Integration, Chris Holmes, said, "InclusiveLondon.com is a fantastic tool that will help us to deliver the most accessible and inclusive Games ever.” Holmes has been a nine-times Paralympic swimming champion.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The site, InclusiveLondon.com, which continues online after the 2012 Games, can riddle searches by queries such as whether there is wheelchair or pushchair access, if assistance dogs are welcome or whether there are hearing loops.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The site, InclusiveLondon.com is open for reviews and feedback which currently has details of 7,700 London locations.</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-37353853915770809372011-03-11T23:46:00.000-08:002011-03-11T23:46:45.879-08:00Bahram Afsharzadeh, Secretary General of Iran's National Olympic Committee, Slams Comments of David Cameron<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="Label2" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4GE52RYWlvGeeWjgF2Dj6utFep0Zy4aHQij1bHjAcPC_I0JsyJh-ZzGqtO_QdJMWHaUSHt3bxtMIY4mHhaV0-cunC-GzWCpvPOALLwpC07loScV97LgDHJKQzzyCENo5rK5sqLgaHZU/s1600/Bahram+Afsharzadeh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4GE52RYWlvGeeWjgF2Dj6utFep0Zy4aHQij1bHjAcPC_I0JsyJh-ZzGqtO_QdJMWHaUSHt3bxtMIY4mHhaV0-cunC-GzWCpvPOALLwpC07loScV97LgDHJKQzzyCENo5rK5sqLgaHZU/s200/Bahram+Afsharzadeh.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="textView">TEHRAN -The Secretary General of Iran's National Olympic Committee, Bahram Afsharzadeh said British Prime Minister David Cameron does not have the right to make comments on sport issues. </div><div class="textView"><br />
</div><div align="Justify" class="textView">Afsharzadeh's remarks came following insulting comments by Cameron on Iran's participation London international games in 2012. </div><div align="Justify" class="textView"><br />
</div><div align="Justify" class="textView">"International Olympic Committee is our other side in London Olympic games," Afsharzadeh told media on Friday as reiterating that, "a political official does not have any right to make comments on sport activities." </div><div align="Justify" class="textView"><br />
</div><div align="Justify" class="textView">"We will make coordination with officials of the International Olympic Committee and we will arrive in London to play gloriously," Afsharzadeh continued. </div><div align="Justify" class="textView"><br />
</div><div align="Justify" class="textView">The UK Prime Minister has recently claimed, "the London Olympics would not miss Iran, if they did not want to come." </div><div align="Justify" class="textView"><br />
</div><div align="Justify" class="textView">David Cameron’s comments followed a protest by Iranian Olympics officials that the logo chosen for the 2012 games was racist and showed the word of "Zion." </div></span></span></div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-7136409132451110822011-03-11T23:39:00.000-08:002011-03-11T23:39:59.767-08:00London 2012 Olympics: Rebecca Adlington Comlpetes European Titles Hat-trick Ready to Rock Olympics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">ALL that glitters is gold for Rebecca Adlington – she's now conquered Britain, Europe and the former Empire in the past 12 months.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And now she wants to take on the world.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The 22-year-old completed a golden hat-trick at the British Gas Swimming Championships in Manchester last night – romping to 800m freestyle gold to add to her 200m and 400m victories.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Poolside murmurs hinted her world record, set en route to Olympic gold in Beijing, was in danger but while she blew her British rivals out of the water, that will have to wait.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Not that she was in the slightest bit bothered. For that was set in the lightning fast Water Cube and before polyurethane became prohibited. Still, Adlington's winning time was 8:20.23 minutes was too hot for the rest to handle.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Adlington thrives when she races the clock rather than her rivals. Just as she did in Beijing, she streaked clear of the field last night and ate up all 16 lengths of the Manchester Aquatics Centre pool.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"It wasn't an easy race because some of the other British girls are very strong and I expected it to be closer than it was," said Adlington.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"I had a little look at my time at the halfway stage and thought I was going a bit quickly but it's not always easy when you're out there on your own."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Jaz Carlin trailed home a full 5.44 seconds adrift while Keri-Anne Payne completed the podium in third.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">But what a difference a year makes for Adlington. After getting it all wrong over 800m at the European Championships she cut a forlorn figure in Budapest – and it was fast becoming a familiar sight.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">She roared back to secure the 400m title however and followed that up with two gold and two bronze medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games when she added the freestyle relay to her three individual events.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Adlington fully intends to do so again at next year's Olympics but, before she makes a four-pronged assault on London 2012, this summer's World Championships beckon – and she's admits she's got some unfinished business.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"Hopefully it will be third time lucky in Shanghai," added Adlington, who could only manage two bronze medals at teary 2009 World Championships in Rome.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"I'm just looking forward to getting out there and racing. Without the suits I don't really think anyone is interested in times, I'm certainly not. All I want to do is get out there and race like I did here."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, fellow Nova Centurion swimmer Jess Sylvester, who along with Adlington won 4x100m freestyle silver at last October's Commonwealth Games, bagged 50m butterfly gold last night.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The 23-year-old touched home in 27.37 seconds to take victory ahead of Youth Olympian Rachael Kelly before returning to the pool to advance to the 50m freestyle final, clocking 26.21.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"I'm enjoying myself here," said Sylvester. "My 100m races aren't really going that well at the moment but my 50s are. That is a positive to take from this."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In the 800m, Nottingham's Sasha Matthews came seventh in 8:42.93, 22.7 seconds behind Adlington.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The nation's leading energy supplier British Gas is the principal partner of British Swimming.</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472214815604731074.post-21217701280376249512011-03-10T07:55:00.000-08:002011-03-10T07:55:48.228-08:00London 2012 Olympics: The Event is Going to be Affected by Increasing Number of Crimes in the City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcVz2vzipe8wO7gVwmRDB1KU8EqfzGXGaqrR1yDcvqG24myfpbk5ClfWdFjSsGYWYhBwer1WrDAqkW829QQ4ktytsJJZOdYeBVYDhBnGz0tLaJD3Ywe8xJ1O7lN58GVBGnbGzNSZdMiY/s1600/london+crime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcVz2vzipe8wO7gVwmRDB1KU8EqfzGXGaqrR1yDcvqG24myfpbk5ClfWdFjSsGYWYhBwer1WrDAqkW829QQ4ktytsJJZOdYeBVYDhBnGz0tLaJD3Ywe8xJ1O7lN58GVBGnbGzNSZdMiY/s1600/london+crime.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">If you are watching or reading newspapers you can see clearly that in London and UK shooting, killings and stabbings increasing rapidly and this is just not safe or secure us to take our families, friends to London Olympics in UK. You never know where the armed gangs going to come or fights. London media reported today a man blasted with a shotgun staggered on to an Underground train to escape a gunman and managed to travel one stop before collapsing on a platform in front of horrified passengers.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The 27-year-old victim was shot on the steps of Harlesden station in a clash between two gangs. He ran down to the Bakerloo line and jumped on to the first southbound train before getting off at Willesden Junction. Police and paramedics were called to the Tube station and the injured man was given emergency treatment on the platform. The Underground train was held and police interviewed shocked witnesses yesterday afternoon.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Commuters were forced to take buses from Harlesden station after it was closed for four hours, while police forensic science officers examined the scene. The victim, who is from south London, was today said to be in a stable condition in hospital.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A British Transport Police spokeswoman said the man's injuries were not life-threatening. He is thought to have suffered a gunshot injury to the lower back. Detectives are examining CCTV film footage from Harlesden station in a bid to identify the gunman. They believe the row began outside the station and then moved inside, where a gunman fired a blast from a weapon believed to be a shotgun.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">London Olympics on the way and this kind a shooting, people running with guns on the streets and stabbing every where, teenagers gangs all sort of stuff so how can you feel safe and walk or get a train to stadium to support your team or watch amazing games in London. Security and safety is very low and this needs big attention because we might be travelling with families kids and will be many people all over the London due Olympics.</div></div>Shamoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865952902754740818noreply@blogger.com0