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Russia, U.S. To Join Efforts For 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Security06 / 19 / 13Security issues at large-scale sporting and public events, including the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, "will become an area of interaction" between Russia and the U.S., according to RIA. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama "met late on Monday on the sidelines of the G8 sum... |
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Rehearsal Footage Cut From YouTube
Rehearsal footage of the Olympic Opening Ceremony was removed from YouTube on Thursday as organisers "stepped up efforts to keep details of Friday's eagerly awaited curtain-raiser under wraps," according to David Mercer of the PA. Some spectators published video online of Thursday night's sneak prev ...
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High Ratings For Olympic Opener
Team GB's women's football win in the first event of the London Games on Wednesday peaked with 2.5 million viewers on BBC1, according to John Plunkett of the London GUARDIAN. It did take "a bit of time for the audience to build up," beginning with 1.3 million viewers at kick-off and ending with 2.5 ...
German Athletes Not Social Media Savvy
The German Olympic team has a "lot of catching-up to do in regards of social media usage," according to the DPA. Only 42% percent of the 392 German athletes have an official website, a small number of 30.2% have a Facebook page, and with 18.2% even fewer use Twitter as a marketing and communications ...
Debt-Hit Spain Presses On With 2020 Bid
Spain vowed to press on with its bid for the '20 Olympics despite an economic crisis that "threatened to engulf its economy," according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. The Madrid government is bidding for the third successive time. Tokyo and Istanbul are the other two candidates. Spaniards are quest ...
Olympics Notes
The London TELEGRAPH's Paul Kelso wrote under the header, “Match-Fixing And Gambling The New Threat In IOC's Battle Against Corruption” that IOC President Jacques Rogge “believes the issues represent the next big fight facing sports organisations and governments.” The IOC &ld ...
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Latest News From SBD/SBJ Olympic Site
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: NBC to surpass $1 billion in Olympic ad sales Beyond Sport Summit conc ...
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Athletes Plan To Skip Opening Ceremony
Britain's swimmers have confirmed that they will "join Team GB's athletes, track cyclists and rowers in missing Friday night's Opening Ceremony" at the Olympic Stadium in east London, according to Booth & Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. Team GB previously estimated around half of the 541-member t ...
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Egypt Given Counterfeit Nike Clothing
The Egyptian Olympic Committee has been "accused of handing out counterfeit" Nike branded clothing for training and village wear, according to Ed Hawkins of the LONDON TIMES. If true, the story "will rank as one of the more amusing 'scandals' of '12." Egyptian synchronized swimmer Yomna Khallaf "con ...
Advertisers Tweak Ad Regulators
Nike posted a 60-second ad on YouTube Wednesday to mark the start of a new worldwide campaign called "Find Your Greatness," and the ad "takes an idea that would have run afoul of the rules and cheekily turns it on its head," according to David Segal of the N.Y. TIMES. Instead of "showing Olympic ath ...
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Coe Delivers Final Progress Report
LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe Tuesday “delivered his final progress report and said five promises that he had made in 2005 had guided their seven-year journey,” according to Owen Gibson of the GUARDIAN. Coe said, "On that day we made five promises: athletes at the centre of the project, icon ...
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