London Olympics 2012 News
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 Cameron ‘confident’ Olympics security ‘on track’
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed confidence that security preparations for the London Olympics are on schedule.
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 OBE holder Kylie Minogue to cheer for Australia not Britain at London Olympics
When Kylie Minogue was awarded an OBE in 2008, she described Britain as her “adopted home”.
It is, however, her native Australia that she will be cheering on at London 2012.
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 Half of Australian team to miss Olympics opening ceremony
Almost half of Australian athletes participating in the London Olympics are expected to miss the opening ceremony to focus on their preparations for the sporting event.
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 India seek to script a new chapter in Olympic history
Armed with a new-found self-belief, India`s top athletes will seek to script a fresh chapter in the country`s Olympic history as they go into the 30th edition of the sporting extravaganza from Friday with a realistic chance of winning medals.
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 London Olympics: Proud moment for India as Big B carries the torch
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan carried the Olympic Torch in London at Southwark on Thursday, a day before the opening ceremony of the Games.
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 Companies given ‘unrivalled platform’ to endorse junk food at London Games
Large brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Cadbury’s have been provided with an unrivaled platform to promote unhealthy and junk food to children at the London Olympics, according to a report titled The Obesity Games.
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 London Olympics could net British economy £4bn profit
The Department of Trade and Industry in UK expects the London Olympics to generate revenues of around 13 billion pounds through inward investment.
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 Roddick up for Olympic glory on his favourite surface
Andy Roddick of the United States is eagerly awaiting the London 2012 Olympic Games tennis tournament which will be played at Wimbledon on grass, one of his favourite surfaces.
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 Gymnast Teng pulls out of Olympics
China`s 2004 Athens Games champion Teng Haibin has pulled out of the London Olympics gymnastics competition with an arm injury.
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 Murray seeks inspiration from Bolt’s performance to win Olympic gold
British tennis ace Andy Murray, who is hoping to win golden laurels for his country at the Olympics, will use the memories of Usain Bolt’s tremendous performances in Beijing four years ago as inspiration.
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 Indian athletes` London tryst amid soaring expectations
Carrying the hopes of a billion plus people back home, Indian athletes are supremely confident of returning with the richest medal haul from the Olympic Games, the sport`s biggest showpiece, opening in London Friday.
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 Bhupathi-Bopanna seeded 7th in Olympics men`s doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who took on the All India Tennis Association to compete as a team in the London Olympics, have been seeded seventh in the men`s doubles event of the sporting spectacle that will unfold with an opening ceremony on Friday.
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 Greek triple jumper banned from Games for racially insensitive tweet
Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was expelled from Greece’s Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party.
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 IAAF suspends 9 athletes in sophisticated doping cases ahead of the London Olympics
Nine track athletes were suspended ahead of the London Olympics for doping, including three who were caught in retests of samples from last year`s world championships, the IAAF said Wednesday.
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 Krishna Poonia, Sudha arrive at Olympic Games Village
Star discus thrower Krishna Poonia and Asian Games champion steeplechase runner Sudha Singh were among the first batch of Indian track and field athletes to check into the Olympic Games Village here.
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 Hillary Clinton urges IOC to commemorate Munich massacre
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on the International Olympic Committee to commemorate the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian gunmen at the Munich Games in 1972 with a moment of silence at the opening ceremony of this year`s Games in London.
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 Olympic organisers display South Korea flag instead of N Korea
London Olympic organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea`s before a women`s soccer match Wednesday, prompting the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour.
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 Amitabh Bachchan to carry Olympic torch
Amitabh Bachchan will carry the London Olympic torch today, a day before the opening ceremony of the Games.
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 Indian archers get the first feel of hallowed turf at Lord`s
Indian archers got their first feel of the hallowed turf at Lord`s, cricket`s most famous venue where the Olympic archery competition will be staged.
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 Poor planning cost us medal in 1980 Olympics: Eliza Nelson
Former Indian women`s hockey captain and Olympian, Eliza Nelson, on Wednesday said that the team missed a medal at the Moscow Games due to poor planning.
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