Tag: London 2012
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How much is a British Olympic gold medal worth? £2m
Leading sponsorship agency Octagon estimates according to the Independent, that some British athletes could pick up £2m (US$ 3.1 million) before Rio 2016, should they win gold at the London 2012 Olympics, and 22-year-old super-heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua maybe even up to £5m. Swimmer Adlington, who said after Bejing that all she wanted was to…
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Ellen Gandy the Brit that lives farthest away from the London 2012 Olympic Park
The Independent has this fun article today called “The long, short and tall of Britain’s Olympic hopefuls“, lining up interesting ‘records’ of British athletes training for the London 2012 Olympics, like 18-year-old featherweight weightlifting champion Hannah Powell being the shortest and lightest with her 4 ft 9 in (144 cm) height and 7 stone (44.4 kg) weight ……
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Wu Peng eyeing “final olympics”
Earlier this month, Chinese swimmer Wu Peng declared that next year’s London Olympics will be his last time competing. 24-year-old Wu’s first Olympics were the 2004 Athens Games, where he made the finals, and now he’s intensifying his training schedule to prepare for London 2012, eager to go out strong with a medal victory. Via…
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IOC campaign “Best of Us” asks all youths to share their best
Anchored by this “The Yellow Line” commercial featuring Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, the Olympic Committee encourages all young athletes to record and submit videos of “their personal best” to the web site olympic.org/showyourbest, and to vote on other submitted videos. The site will include a “mash-up creator” which takes the user-submitted videos and mixes…
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Rebecca Soni visits Wales with Team USA: Britain Bound
Team USA: Britain Bound sent Olympic swimmer Rebecca Soni to Wales Friday, and she soaked up the capital city, Cardiff, from sun up to sun down. Read more here on USA Swimming. (video moved below the break because it autoplays)
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Cadbury Dairy Milk presents Simply the Best
Featuring Rebecca Adlington, an opera singing Royal Guard, a sausage seller and others, almost all of them underwater. Mmm, Cadbury, via shootonline.com.
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44-year-old Torres could become oldest Olympic swimmer
Great video here, know at least one Faroese girl who is fascinated by this ‘old’ lady repeatedly beating the up-and-coming kids. Dara Torres, 44, has won 12 Olympic Medals and is not stopping here. She hopes to compete in one final Olympic Games and at 45 become the oldest ever Olympic swimmer (already the oldest…
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President mocks Pellegrini for declining to be Italy’s London 2012 flag bearer
It has not fallen well with the Italian olympic committee that Federica Pellegrini doesn’t want to server as flag bearer for Italy at the London 2012 Games, with the excuse that she doesn’t want to stand in a stadium for up to eight hours the night before her first race. Gazzetta dello Sport reports the…
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The London 2012 Aquatics Centre is (almost) ready
The Brits celebrated the completion of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre already in July, with one year to go until til London 2012 Olympics. The pictures are certainly impressive, but I won’t rest easy until there are some Omega OSB11 starting blocks at each end :-) Here is Tom Daley performing the first official dive.…