A leading Olympic website is offering SJA members a 50 per cent discount on subscriptions for the next six months, through to the London Games
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Philip Noel-Baker, who turned down recognition as a Companion of Honour in 1965, remains the only man to win an Olympic medal and the Nobel Peace Prize
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PHILIP BARKER reports from Austria on the media arrangements for the first Winter Youth Olympics, and expresses a preference in interlude music for The Smiths’ and their “Hang the DJ” lyric
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19 Jan
2012
2012
Danson and Pearn honoured by Hockey Writers
Mark Pearn and Alex Danson have been named UK Players of the Year for 2011 following the annual poll conducted among British members of the Hockey Writers’ Club
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The 2012 WADA symposium, including sessions with WADA President John Fahey and Director General David Howman, will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on February 7
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Badminton’s Olympic qualifying race has entered its final months, but there are still some key home dates in the international calendar where media can follow London 2012 hopefuls
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The chairman of LOCOG, LORD COE, begins the final countdown to the Greatest Show on Earth with this message for the Sports Journalists’ Association
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On the eve of 2012, PHILIP BARKER looks back to the Olympic year of 1912, and the football reporter who won a gold medal for Britain at the Stockholm Games
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22 Dec
2011
2011
Channel 4: editor, Paralympics
You’ll be right at the heart of it, delivering high-end editorial support during the run up and while the Games are on. That means driving the creative process, liaising with talent and delivering programming that engages and inspires audiences.
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PHILIP BARKER visits the first Paralympic sport to test out the facilities in London’s Olympic Park
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