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McDonald's Named One Of 15 Contracted Caterers For 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics05 / 24 / 13McDonald's "will get a triumphant welcome in Sochi as the event's official restaurant," according to Lena Smirnova of the MOSCOW TIMES. As one of 15 contracted caterers to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, "the world's largest fast food chain and nine-time official restaurant partner of the games will build ... |
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Korea Defends Troubled Footballer Park
South Korea’s sporting and political authorities "lined up to support" Olympic footballer Park Jong-woo after his Bronze Medal was withheld for "displaying a political slogan" following the team’s win against Japan Friday, according to Alastair Gate of the WALL STREET JOURNAL's Japan Rea ...
Carrion, Others In Line To Succeed Rogge
With the London Games over, the "race to succeed" IOC President Jacques Rogge has begun, according to the DPA. Richard Carrion, who looks after the IOC’s finances and negotiates TV rights, is "on most people’s lists of aspiring presidents for the committee." Other candidates include IOC ...
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Olympic Notes
U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that nearly 10 million more tourists "should be visiting the U.K. from overseas" by '20 under plans to capitalize on the London Games. In his keynote speech on tourism, Hunt announced record-breaking figures for visits to the U.K. and spending by tourists ...
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SBJ/SBDG Global Olympic Blog
SportsBusiness Journal/SportsBusiness Daily has launched a free website exclusively geared to the Summer Games that will feature news, video, blogs and much more from London. See the site today for the following news: Analysis: London's old-school competence makes for a shining Games Olympi ...
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Focus Shifts To Sochi, Rio Games
The ’14 Sochi Games are now on the clock, and there is a “massive project underway to build a resort city on the Black Sea almost from scratch and with it the center of the universe for sports played on ice and snow,” according to Christine Brennan of USA TODAY. SOCOG Presiden ...
BOA Chair Steps Down A Year Early
British Olympic Association Chair Colin Moynihan will step down a year early after seven years in the role, according to Paul Kelso of the London TELEGRAPH. Moynihan wrote to members of the National Olympic Committee to tell them it is his intention "to hand over to a new chair, probably in November ...
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Reflections On A 'Great' London Games
London "nursed a collective hangover" on Monday as it bade farewell to the Olympics and to thousands of athletes heading home, according to Mike Collett-White of REUTERS. Britain will look back with pride on a Games one newspaper wrote had "surpassed our wildest dreams," British newspaper ...
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London Earns Worldwide Praise For Games
Following Sunday night's London Games Closing Ceremony, journalists in the U.K. and around the globe began heaping praise on the host city. In London, Paul Hayward wrote, “The Games will be remembered as a triumph for warmth, civility, excellence and enthusiasm -- hosted by a nation in love wi ...
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Nike Ad Just The Start For Farah
Nike has launched an outdoor advertising campaign celebrating Great Britain distance runner Mo Farah's "remarkable" two Olympic Gold Medals. The advertising campaign is to run on digital screens across London.The ad features the lower half of a distance runner -- although "this is not thought to be ...
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Raucous Ceremony Celebrated Host
London ended "one of the most successful Games in history" Sunday night with 80,000 people in the Olympic Stadium rocking and roaring not for athletes, but "for a raucous, exuberant celebration of modern British culture," according to Martin Fletcher of the LONDON TIMES. Artistic Dir Kim Gavin calle ...
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