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LONDON OLYMPICS News, May 15, 2012

Officials delay London Olympic Stadium decision
SI.com
LONDON (AP) The future of London's Olympic Stadium may not be resolved until after this summer's games, following a decision Monday to extend the bidding phase by eight weeks. The London Legacy Development Corporation had been set to decide on a bidder ...
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Coach K says London Olympics are his last
Chicago Sun-Times
BY VICKI MICHAELIS USA Today May 14, 2012 3:34PM DALLAS — Mike Krzyzewski, who led the “Redeem Team” to Olympic gold in 2008, said Monday the upcomingLondon Games will be his last as the US men's basketball head coach.
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Column: Olympic first, a home from home in London
ESPN
And, in what is now Olympic tradition, they will celebrate their presence by draping their nations' flags from the windows and balconies. "London, we've arrived!" the riot of color will proclaim. "The whole world is at your door!
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LONDON 2012: London Games marry the ultimate world city with its greatest ...
Washington Post
LONDON — Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle into their rooms at London's new, purpose-built Olympic Village this July.
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London Olympic Stadium Bidding Extended 2 Months for More Offers (London)
MLive.com
LONDON — The agency overseeing the reuse of London's Olympic stadium will extend the bidding for eight weeks to allow interested companies and teams to make offers to use the facility after this year's games. Any group that declared an interest last...
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Olympics-Michelle Obama gets US athletes and kids moving
Reuters
By Steve Keating | DALLAS May 14 (Reuters) - Michelle Obama offered a pep talk on Monday to US athletes who will be competing at the 2012 London Olympics while announcing a nationwide program to get more American children active. The US first lady, ...
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Krzyzewski expects London to be his final Olympics
Durham Herald Sun
DALLAS — Mike Krzyzewski says he thinks the London Olympics will be his last coaching the United States. The Duke coach was brought in before the 2008 Games to revive a struggling US Olympic team that had finished a disappointing third in Athens.
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London's Olympic tower gets panned by British press, looks like a roller coaster
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
By Chris Chase By Chris Chase | Fourth-Place Medal – 10 hours ago The Orbit tower in London, a tall, twisting, red steel structure next to OlympicStadium that adds a touch of modernity to the city's skyline, debuted Friday and is being drubbed in the ...
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Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Will London be the Greenest Olympic Games Ever?
Triple Pundit
By Akhila Vijayaraghavan | May 15th, 2012 0 Comments When London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics, their aim was to make it the greenest, cleanest and most sustainable games ever held. Now with just barely two months left, the host city is ...
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US gets extension for Olympic basketball team
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
AP, MCT The US basketball team at the London Olympics could include James Harden (left) and Anthony Davis. By Gary D'Amato of the Journal Sentinel Dallas - A shortened and condensed NBA season and injuries to key players have left USA Basketball with ...
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More London Olympic tickets going on sale
NDTV
London: More tickets are being put on sale for people who were unsuccessful in securing entry to see the London 2012 Olympics. About one million people who failed in the first round have until 23:00 local time on Thursday to apply for tickets.
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Olympic stadium bidding process extended by eight weeks
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - The process to decide who will become anchor tenants ofLondon's Olympic stadium following this year's Games has been extended by eight weeks to address "a number of issues", the London Legacy Development Corporation said on Monday.
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Multi-tasking Michel rides her way to London
Chicago Tribune
For what is likely to be just a brief appearance at the London Olympics dressage competition, she has also had to prove herself as a horse trader and shrewd businesswoman for the past six years. The only French representative in the discipline has, ...
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Auriemma says Griner had 'pretty good' chance of making London team if she ...
Washington Post
DALLAS — Brittney Griner could have added an Olympic medal to her NCAA title. The Baylor star's chances of making the US team for this summer's London Olympics were “pretty good” before she withdrew from consideration last month, US coach Geno ...
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First Lady Obama's 'Let's Move' Campaign Links to Olympics
Voice of America
First lady Michelle Obama, who will lead the US presidential delegation to the London Olympics in late July, wants to see American children become more active. She believes that the inspiration of the Summer Games will help achieve that goal.
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Voice of America
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski: 2012 Games will be my last Olympics
Boston Herald
By Scott Fowler / McClatchy Newspapers That's where Mike Krzyzewski stands with theOlympics. The Duke coach will try to win one more championship as the US men's coach this summer in London, but no matter what the outcome he will not return as the US ...
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Olympics-Golden girl Liukin savoring grind of late London bid
Reuters
By Larry Fine | DALLAS May 14 (Reuters) - Olympic all-around gymnastics champion Nastia Liukin is relishing the exhaustion of intense training in her rushed bid to represent the United States at the London Games. The 22-year-old will compete for the ...
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London 2012 Olympics: former BOA chief Simon Clegg lands top job with Guam to ...
Telegraph.co.uk
It is nine years to the day since the Government gave the green light to aLondon bid for the 2012 Olympics and Simon Clegg, one of the driving forces behind that historic decision, is looking forward to the imminent fulfilment of his long-held dream.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Olympics-World champions Japan turn to tall 'supergirl'
Reuters
| TOKYO May 15 (Reuters) - World champions Japan have called up a towering goalkeeper to help them in their bid to win the women's soccer title at this year'sLondon Olympics. Erina Yamane, who at 187 centimetres (6 feet, two inches) looks down on ...
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Olympics-Stadium bidding process extended by eight weeks
Reuters
By Martyn Herman | LONDON May 14 (Reuters) - The process to decide who will become anchor tenants of London's Olympic stadium following this year's Games has been extended by eight weeks to address "a number of issues", the London Legacy Development ...
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London Olympics: 73 days to go; Bolt to race in Zurich Diamond League
Daily News & Analysis
His final race before the July 27-August 12 London Olympic Games will be in the 200m at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on July 20. The future of London's OlympicStadium may not be resolved until after this summer's Games following a decision on ...
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London 'last time' for Coach K with Team USA
Chicago Tribune
DALLAS -- All it took to convince Mike Krzyzewski to coach Team USA once again for the 2012 London Olympics was late-night pizza and wine and conversation between two Chicago guys. "By the time we were finished," USA Basketball chair Jerry Colangelo...
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USA Boxing Qualifies 9 Fighters for 2012 London Olympics
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network – 12 hours ago The United States 2012 Olympic boxing team has a robust nine team members, making it one of the largest squads at the London games. Australia leads the pack with a full 10 boxers, and Kazakhstan is tied with the USA ...
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Krzyzewski says this Olympics will be his last as USA coach
Yahoo! Sports
By The Sports Xchange | The SportsXchange – 5 hours ago Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who coached the USA national team to a gold medal in the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Championships, said Monday that the upcoming London Olympics will be his last ...
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Air Culinaire Prepared for London Olympics
MarketWatch (press release)
GENEVA, May 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- EBACE -- With record business-aviation traffic expected to descend on London for this summer's 2012Olympic Games, Air Culinaire (exhibit #2366) is expanding its distribution strategies at its London ...
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Krzyzewski not likely to return for 2016 Olympics
Yahoo! Sports
AP – 10 hours ago DALLAS (AP) Mike Krzyzewski says he thinks the London Olympics will be his last coaching the United States. The Duke coach was brought in before the 2008 Games to revive a struggling Olympic team, which had finished a disappointing ...
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Olympics-I needed to hit rock bottom, says pole vaulter Hooker
Reuters
By Ian Ransom | MELBOURNE May 15 (Reuters) - Hitting rock bottom six months before the London Games was the best thing that could have happened to Steve Hooker, the Olympic pole vault champion said, after climbing out of an abyss of self-doubt to ...
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London Not Calling: Little Hope for Country's Delegation at Olympics
AllAfrica.com
By Julius Mbaraga, 14 May 2012 The London Olympic Games kick off in a little over two months but for Rwanda, they already seem a lost cause. Apart from two IOC (International Olympic Committee) swimming wildcards Alphonsine Agahozo (50m) and Jackson ...
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Jose Ramirez, US Boxing Phenom, Qualifies For London Olympics
Huffington Post
Nineteen-year-old phenom boxer Jose Ramirez is officially heading to the London Olympics to represent the United States in the 132-pound class. For Ramirez, who has a decorated amateur career of 143 wins, 11 national titles and six consecutive USA ...
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London Olympics 2012 News & Schedule | ArticleCube.com
London Olympics 2012 News & Schedule. London is all set to host the biggest even on the planet for the record third time. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948 and with the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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D-Star for London 2012 Olympics | Southgate Amateur Radio News
GB7OK the London D-Star repeater server has been updated with Jonathan Naylor, G4KLX's IrcDDB software and, thanks to G4TSN, we can access all D-Star reflectors unlike old G2 software. We can now also access the Dplus, XRF and ...
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Column: Olympic first, a home from home in London - Football news
LONDON (AP) — Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous too, thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle into their rooms at London's new, purpose-built Olympic Village this ...
Mail.com: International
Mini Olympics - London Community News
By JBrodie
londoncommunitynews.com is your source for what's on in London, Ontario plus up-to-the-minute news and sports events pulled from the headlines of the London CommunityNews newspaper.
Your online newspaper for London,...
Mr. Muscle banned from competing at London Olympics | NewsBiscuit
By Guest
The British Olympic Association say they have banned a leading bathroom and toilet cleanser from competing at the London 2012 Olympics after the cleaning fluid failed a random drugs test.
NewsBiscuit
NBCUNIVERSAL ANNOUNCES ITS MOST EXTENSIVE SPANISH ...
By admin
NBCUNIVERSAL ANNOUNCES ITS MOST EXTENSIVE SPANISH-LANGUAGE OLYMPIC COVERAGE EVER WITH MORE THAN 173 HOURS OF LONDON OLYMPIC PROGRAMMING ON TELEMUNDO FROM JULY 25TH THROUGH AUGUST 12TH. Posted on May ... Also, for the first time in the network's history, Telemundo will offer live streaming of broadcast coverage together with exclusive digital-only content of Olympic events, news, announcements and information via www.
Telemundo Media Kit
London 2012 Olympics: Fluid Technology for Swimming | Symscape
By Rich Smith
In the run up to the London Olympics the big news in swimming is the lack of fluid technology. The introduction of the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit just prior to the Beijing 2008 Olympics resulted in virtually every swimming world record being ...
Symscape blogs
LRAD to be security device during London Olympics - Business Insider
By Eloise Lee
Olympic security has been in the news lately, with recent confirmation that British troops are looking into installing surface-to-air missiles on an apartment building in EastLondon. A "multilayered air security plan" is just one part of the U.K.'s ...
Business Insider
BBC Sport app confirmed for PS3, Sony Bravia TVs | Games industry ...
The app will sit alongside the BBC News and BBC iPlayer apps on the Sony Entertainment Network and will launch in time for Wimbledon at the end of June. Furthermore, the app will offer the BBC's full suite of London Olympics 2012 ...
MCV: Home Stream
Business Centers Should Prepare for the London Olympics Flood
By admin
The survey predicts hundreds of thousands of London commuters will struggle with what it is calling the daily “workathlon” when the Olympics begin because businesses won't let them work telecommute or tap into some other flexible work schedule to avoid theOlympic traffic. Your business center should be ... the voice of the alternative workplace. Tap into the network for tips, tricks and trends or catch up on the latest business center news and views from across the globe. Read more.
Officing Today
USA Shooting Athletes to Compete in Milan in Final Pre-Olympic ...
By Ammoland
Twenty-one USA Shooting athletes, including 10 Olympians, have arrived in Milan, Italy, for their final International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup event before theLondon 2012 Olympic Games... ... In addition to AmmoLand Shooting Sports News, Dan is and active member for the New Jersey Second Amendment Society, (NJ2AS.com) and works on the ground to advance gun rights for all his fellow residents of NJ. You can find more articles and information by Dan ...
AmmoLand.com Shooting Sports News
Brazil releases Neymar, Ganso for Libertadores quarter ... - Mizo News
By IANS
news portal for Mizos across the globe. ... United States against the US May 30, Mexico (June 3) and Argentina (June 9). Brazil coach Mano Menezes has stated he will use the matches to form the basis of his squad for the London Olympics.
Mizonews.Net
Burma prepares to send athletes to Olympics | Democratic Voice of ...
By PETER AUNG
Burma will field a confirmed four athletes in the upcoming London Olympics, according to the government's Sports and Physical Education Department. A senior SPED official told DVB that the athletes would compete in shooting, archery and ...
Democratic Voice of Burma
London's Olympics security heats up - New York Daily News
The British military is staunch in its commitment to protect London from potential terror threats during this summer's Olympic Games. UK Defense Secretary Philip ...
articles.nydailynews.com/.../31589587_1_olympics-security-d...
Details of park for London Olympic site unveiled - One News Page
Details of park for London Olympic site unveiled: A new park on the site of the 2012London Olympics won't fully open to the public until a year and a half after ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Details-of-park-for-London-Olym...
Saturday's London Links: Olympics news
Some of the news and links we've spotted in the last few days on the approachingLondon Olympics; How the Olympics clean-up is putting sex workers in ...
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