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London Mayor Says City Signed Deal To Sell Olympic Media Centre05 / 17 / 13Mayor Boris Johnson Thursday claimed that "the legacy of the Olympic Park had been secured as he announced a deal" to take the £300M ($459M) media centre off taxpayers’ hands, according to Matthew Beard of the London EVENING STANDARD. The former Olympic broadcast studio, which was ... Tags: Olympics, United Kingdom |
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Spanish Press Criticizes Men's Football Team
Spanish football's premature exit from the London Games against Honduras, "resurrected the ghosts of a country perhaps poorly accustomed to glory," according to Miguel Herguedas of EL MUNDO. Lost between the protests and the bad luck and desperate about the mistakes of the judge, who left without pu ...
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The London INDEPENDENT's Jerome Taylor reported that cleaners and security staff have been recruited by Olympic officials to snoop on athletes as part of their fight against competitors using performance-enhancing drugs. Staff have been told to keep an eye out on "suspicious non-prescription medic ...
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World Heaps Praise On Opening Ceremony
The London Games Opening Ceremony has been hailed as a “whimsical, riotous and very British” triumph by viewers from around the world, who heaped praise on Artistic Dir Danny Boyle’s tribute to Britain, according to Tedmanson & Karim of the LONDON TIMES. A billion people are "e ...
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Olympics Marketing Notes
In London, MARKETING MAGAZINE's Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith reported that adidas and EDF have joined the group of Olympic sponsors targeted by lobbying group 38 Degrees, including Coke, McDonald's and Visa, in waiving the tax breaks handed to them during the Olympics. Within the past week, ad ...
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Empty Olympic Seats Cause Row
London Games organizers "sought to quell growing public frustration" on Sunday over empty seats across its venues, according to Grohmann & Collett-White of REUTERS. Britons who tried to buy tickets to the Games but were told they had been sold out are now "angered" at the site of "dispiriting im ...
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Coe Defends Cauldron's Placement
LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe was forced to defend the decision to keep the Olympic cauldron "out of sight from hundreds of thousands of Olympic Park visitors," according to Philippe Naughton of the LONDON TIMES. The cauldron traditionally "burns above the stadium, clearly visible to all." However, its ...
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Tokyo 2020 Announces Venue Details
Japanese officials and Olympic athletes announced details about the Olympic Stadium that Tokyo will have ready for the 2020 Summer Games. The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will be extremely advanced – and, at the same time, will be on the same site as the stadium built for the '64 Summer Games. Jap ...
Grant Program For Brazilian Athletes
Through the Athlete Grant Program, Brazil's Ministry of Sports has provided financial support for 111 of the 259 athletes in 32 sports at the London Games. The program also provides financial support for 156 of the 186 members of the Brazilian delegation at the Paralympic Games. The Athlete Grant Pr ...
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REUTERS' Karolos Grohmann reported that LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe said that "the Olympic flame and cauldron is not a tourist attraction," defending a decision to keep it out of sight of thousands of Olympic Park visitors. Lit at the Opening Ceremony on Friday, the cauldron "will not burn above the s ...
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SBJ/SBD 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: Catching Up With: Kevin Newell, McDonald¹s global chief brand officer ...
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