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LONDON OLYMPICS News, May 24, 2012

Travel advice, street-by-street route and what's on guide to the Olympic torch...
WalesOnline
By Peter Law ⋅ May 24, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Cardiff on Friday to cheer on the London 2012Olympic torch relay. Almost 100 local heroes will carry the Olympic flame as it covers 102 miles ...
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NYPD chief gives thumbs up to Olympics security
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | Sports | Thursday, May 24, 2012 LONDON, (Reuters) – New York's police chief said yesterday he was impressed with security planning for this summer's London Olympics, rejecting suggestions that US officials were ...
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Organizers: Don't Mess With the Olympic Brand
ClaimsJournal.com
By DANICA KIRKA | May 24, 2012 One day, the small espresso shop near the site of the London Games was the “Olympic” cafe. The next day, it was the “Lympic.” The manager won't say. But it's more than likely the small business became another casualty in ...
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River Island and Adidas Join Forces
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- River Island has collaborated with Adidas, the Official Sportswear Partner of the London 2012Olympic and Paralympic Games, to create a Team GB collection. The range unites fashion with sport and reflects ...
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Ramadan sets extra test for Muslim athletes at London OlympicGames
The Daily Star
Anything that might jeopardize the chance of a medal for the 24-year-old at his second Olympics had to be dealt with sensibly, he says. And going without food and drink between sunrise and sunset every day for four weeks is just too risky.
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The Daily Star
Posted On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 08:25:51 AM
Pune Mirror
“Everything we plan and every move we make these days is primarily aimed at the Olympics,” says Nobbs, confronted with the task of continuing to play hide and seek with rival coaches who would be analysing India's game in the run-up to the London Games ...
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Clijsters to retire again after US Open
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | Sports | Thursday, May 24, 2012 (Reuters) – Former world number one Kim Clijsters has confirmed that she will bring down the curtain on her second career at the end of this year's US Open, Belgian news agency Belga has ...
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Today in History: May 24, 2012
Meriden Record-Journal
On May 24, 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7. In 1775, John Hancock was elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Ran-dolph.
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London Olympic Games Boosts Network Connectivity Market
The Taiwan Economic News
Taipei, May 24, 2012 (CENS)--Although the London Olympic Games is still two months away from now, worldwide eagerness to watch the significant sports event has given a boost to the market for network connectivity gears, which can digitally connect ...
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Olympics row resolved as regional press handed 39 passes
HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk
by Paul Linford, last updated on May 24, 2012 The long-running row over regional press access to the London 2012 Olympics has finally been resolved after Games bosses agreed to allocate 39 press passes to local and regional newspapers.
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Cash for stranded London tube passengers
Sky News Australia
Cash for stranded London tube passengers Updated: 20:30, Thursday May 24, 2012 Hundreds of passengers stranded because of a faulty tube train inLondon are to be given $65 each in compensation amid claims that the city could become an Olympic 'laughing ...
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LateRooms.com - Get in the Olympic Spirit at London 2012 Festival
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Special events such as BT River of Music will take place as part of theLondon 2012 Festival. LONDON, ENGLAND, May 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The London 2012 Festival will see more than 12000 events and performances take place in the capital and ...
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Field Hockey: Australia fume over Olympics draw
The West Australian
SYDNEY, May 24, 2012 (AFP) - - Australian men's field hockey team head coach Ric Charlesworth says his world number one side have been disadvantaged by an unfair draw at the London Olympics. Charlesworth said the 2004 Athens Olympic champions had been ...
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Kookaburra's protest early London games
Sky News Australia
Kookaburra's protest early London games Updated: 20:16, Thursday May 24,2012 Australian men's hockey team the Kookaburra's are calling foul on theirOlympic draw which sees them play three early matches, while rival team ,world number two, ...
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Exergy Tour 'doesn't come around every day'
Idaho Press-Tribune
Armstrong plans on racing in the 2012 Olympics in London. Fourteen bikes belonging to Team TIBCO, competing in this week's Exergy Tour, were discovered stolen Wednesday morning. After a tip to police, the equipment, worth approximately $120000, ...
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Bolt ready for 'great things' at games
Sky News Australia
Bolt ready for 'great things' at games Updated: 16:35, Thursday May 24, 2012Sprint superstar Usain Bolt says he is ready to deliver "great things" at this year's London Olympics. The Jamaican went on to better his double sprint records at the Berlin ...
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Olympic ban for human rights abusers
Sky News Australia
Olympic ban for human rights abusers Updated: 05:40, Thursday May 24,2012 Britain will ban leaders guilty of human rights abuses from travelling to the UK for the 2012 London Olympics, a senior British official says. Jeremy Browne, the Foreign Office ...
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Neymar sets sights on chance to prove his worth in London
The Daily Star
With Ronaldinho and Kaka past their prime, Neymar has become the player carrying Brazil's hopes for success in London at theOlympics and then at the World Cup at home. He is seen as the future of Brazilian football, and the Olympics will give him a ...
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The Daily Star
Olympics Inspire Beach Volleyball Launch for London
Press Dispensary (press release)
May 24, 2012, London, UK. Press Dispensary. GO Mammoth (http://www.gomammoth.co.uk ), London's largest provider of after work team sports events, will be organising beach volleyball leagues on "The Beach" during Summer 2012. The sport & social club has ...
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Kiwi hockey player's Olympic dream hit by appendicitis
Business Standard
PTI / Ipoh (Malaysia) May 24, 2012, 12:35 New Zealand player Blair Hilton'sOlympic dream was severely hit after he after underwent a surgery for appendicitis last night. Hilton, a former junior international, was hoping to make an impression on the ...
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Olympic team wants you
Victoria Times Colonist
By Cleve Dheensaw, Times Colonist May 24, 2012 4:02 AM Olympic rowing medallist Barney Williams addresses the students at Belmont Secondary on Wednesday as part of the Podium Search program. Canadian sport is realizing that physical talent is a ...
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Olympics: S. Koreans fear being branded taekwondo traitors
AsiaOne
South Korean taekwondo athlete Kim Yoon-kyeong (front) and others attend training at Taereung National Village in Seoul April 23, 2012. May 24 - South Korean taekwondo competitors going for gold at the London Olympics know the price of failure will be...
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AsiaOne
Ngoni Makusha to Miss London Olympic Games
AllAfrica.com
By Collin Matiza, 24 May 2012 NGONIDZASHE Makusha -- one of Zimbabwe's brightest medal prospects at this year's London Olympic Games -- has all but been ruled out of the world's biggest sporting showcase through injury. Long jumper Makusha, a bronze ...
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Football hero carry Olympic torch
Sky News Australia
Football hero carry Olympic torch Updated: 08:05, Thursday May 24, 2012The Queen's granddaughter and former world equestrian champion Zara Phillips has carried the Olympic torch on horseback across Cheltenham racecourse, as thousands of screaming fans ...
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Lewis intensifies Olympic preparation
Trinidad News
By RENALDO MATADEEN Thursday, May 24 2012 Andrew Lewis, Trinidad and Tobago's first Laser-class sailor to qualify for the Olympics, is looking to ensure he goes into the 2012 London Games, fully prepared and ready for the high-level competition.
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NYPD chief gives thumbs up to Olympics security - Stabroek News ...
By Stabroek staff
LONDON, (Reuters) - New York's police chief said yesterday he was impressed with security planning for this summer's London Olympics, rejecting suggestions.
Stabroek News
2012 Olympics: Haile Gives It One More Run at Tadias Magazine
By Tadias
Published: Thursday, May 242012. New York (TADIAS) – Haile Gebrselassie will run his last major race over the 10000, meter track in Holland, this weekend. That is if he does not secure a spot in Ethiopia's track team for the 2012 London ...
Tadias Magazine
airBaltic Top 10 Innovative Airline | Baltic NEWS in UK
By Simon - Baltic NEWS in UK
May 242012. By Simon - Baltic NEWS in UK. airBaltic, the Latvian national airline, has recently been chosen as one of the world's top 10 airlines for innovation. The list was released recently by Airlinetrends.com, which is an independent consumer .... LONDON (Reuters) - New York's police chief said on Wednesday he was impressed with security planning for this summer'sLondon Olympics, rejecting suggestions that U.S. officials were concerned about arrangements for the games ...
Baltic NEWS in UK
Danger junctions will not be fixed until after Olympics | The Times
Published at 12:01AM, May 24 2012 ... The Commons Transport Committee heard claims that while the London Olympics are being billed as the public transport games, there was insufficient provision for cycle access to the events.
News | The Times
Undernews: The off the field Olympic struggle
By SAM SMITH
Undernews is the online report of the Progressive Review, since 1964 thenews while there's still time to do something about it. May 242012. The off the field Olympic struggle · Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin, Nation - On Saturday, July 28, protesters will be gathering in London to just say no to the priorities imposed by these most corporate of Olympic Games, and it's hardly difficult to understand why. Security forces are busily militarizing the urban terrain. Olympics security officials ...
Undernews
Guest Post: Mark Perryman on Race and the Olympics
By Snowball
Thursday, May 242012 ... Even before satellite TV and digital media, the dignified audacity of the three medal-winners became an overnight world-widenews story. The Sydney Olympics in 2000 ... Especially in the wake ofLondon's 7/7, one day after the city was selected to host the 2012 Games, a caricature of multiculturalism has been used as cover to break with the kind of celebratory diversity that the Olympics bid had seemed, at least for one of those moments, to represent.
Histomat: Adventures in Historical...
Foxtel completes Austar merger | TV Tonight
By David Knox
Airdate: Tony Robinson's London Games Unearthed · london-olympic-stadium... not offered across the country will be halfed. The only remaining channels/services are: *Sky News Local *RAI Radio *Antenna Radio *CNBC Asia *Box Office in High Definition and On Demand *Sky Racing Active *”Record Me” Ads, and *Sky News Multivie. BigVic May 242012 at 10:41 am -. Awesome news! Looking forward to the Olympic Games and I can imagine what Channel 9 will be offering?
TV Tonight
BREAKING NEWS: Victim in Fatal Accident Identified
By Guy DeMarco
Las Vegas NewsLas Vegas NewsMore>> ... Hundreds of the world's top athletes are heading to London for the Olympic Games, including a boxer from Las Vegas. ... Updated: Thursday, May 24 2012 1:48 AM EDT2012-05-24 05:48:00 GMT ...
Las Vegas News from 8NewsNow.com
The 2012 London Olympics, Emerging Architectural Trends for 2012 ...
SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2012 --. The May issue of Construction Digital is now available online for industry professionals. This month, we take a look at theLondon 2012 Olympics, exploring the building of the Olympic Village as well as how ... Construction Digital is a leading digital media source of news and content for C-level executives focused on business and industry-specific issues such as: Green Building; Building Technologies; Project Management, and Design and Engineering.
ITbriefing.net
Iran protests Eurovision «gay parade» | Baltic News Network - News ...
By BNN
May 242012. Iran has recalled its ambassador from Azerbaijan over accusations that during the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest Baku was planning an accompanying «gay parade.» Iran said that Azerbaijan was «insulting the sanctities of .... National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Vladimir Gerashenko has been suspended after a BBC journalist investigation uncovered that he was offering to sell tickets for the upcoming summer Olympic Games inLondon for several thousand GBP.
Baltic News Network - News from...
Olympics-Lee needs 'miracle' to make London shuttle
May 24 (Reuters) - World badminton number one Lee Chong Weineeds a miracle if ... Madrid, Tokyo, Istanbul in race for 2020 Olympics Wed, May 232012 ... a clear picture of Chong Wei's injury," Aziz told Malaysia's Bernamanews agency.
www.reuters.com/.../olympics-badminton-lee-idUSL4E8GO4...
From Toco to London Olympics - Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday ...
Portal of Trinidad and Tobago with always fresh news on sport, business, culture and ... Home » News » From Toco to London Olympics, Thursday, May 24 2012 ...
www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,160618.html
Great eights win through for London Olympics
Please enable JavaScript to use My News, My Clippings, My Comments and user ... 2:00PM Thursday May 24, 2012; 6854 online now; See today's paper...
www.smh.com.au/.../great-eights-win-through-for-london-oly...
Morning news headlines for May 24, 2012 - UK News - News ...
Updated 9:42am 24 May 2012 ... Morning news headlines for May 24, 2012 ...money after raids at the London offices of Risc Management Ltd, it is understood.
www.walesonline.co.uk/.../morning-news-headlines-for-may-2...
Bolt says start will be key at London Olympics - Sports - Jamaica ...
Bolt says start will be key at London Olympics. Published: Thursday | May 24, 2012 Comments 0. Usain Bolt. 'As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me' ...
jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120524/sports/sports1.html
Uchimura aims for team gold at London Olympics ‹ Japan Today ...
Thursday May 24, 2012 ... Up to the moment news in your inbox everyday. ...Kohei Uchimura imagines himself collecting a gold medal at the LondonOlympics, ...
www.japantoday.com/.../uchimura-aims-for-team-gold-at-lond...
Singapore shooter Jasmine Ser set to appear at London Olympics ...
05-24-2012 10:40 BJT Special Report:2012 London Olympic Games |. Text:A A A | Email. Share |. SINGAPORE, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Singapore shooter Jasmine Ser is set to make her mark at the London Olympics later... Picture in news more ...
english.cntv.cn/20120524/107534.shtml
London 2012: Team GB female beach volleyballers stop traffic near ...
London 2012: Team GB female beach volleyballers stop traffic near Big Ben and London Eye. Sarah Shaffi, Olympics editor (news) Thursday, May 24, 2012 ...
www.london24.com/.../london_2012_team_gb_female_beach...
Westlake rower Margot Shumway qualifies for London Olympics in ...
Westlake rower Margot Shumway qualifies for London Olympics in double sculls. Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 12:33 AM Updated: Thursday, May 24, ...
www.cleveland.com/.../westlake_rower_margot_shumway.htm...
London hotels drop prices for the Olympics - Yahoo!7 - News - Yahoo!
Sunrise news break - May 24 ... AAP May 24, 2012, 11:33 am ... A Londonhotel room during the Olympic Games in July and August costs on average $325, ...
au.news.yahoo.com/.../london-hotels-drop-prices-for-the-oly...
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