The most famous false start in sprinting history and other stories about the world’s fastest man: ANTON RIPPON on why a biography of Usain Bolt is a must-read
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£380 million is an “astonishing” amount of money, according to London Mayor Boris Johnson, but well worth it if it avoids the media attacking the 2012 London Games as they did the 1996 Olympics.
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6 Oct
2008
2008
London 2012: Olympic media debrief
From Jayne Pearce, London 2012 London 2012 wants your feedback on your experiences at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is an important opportunity for all media who worked in Beijing to provide input towards the organisation of press facilities in London in 2012.
Continue reading →MIKE BUTCHER, in the Guardian, analyses website traffic trends in August, when coverage of the Beijing Olympics saw a different sort of record broken Big events create opportunities for big headlines – and that’s been reflected in August’s ABCe figures, which received a welcome boost from the Beijing Olympics. Certainly, the Games seemed tailor-made for [...]
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15 Sep
2008
2008
Happy returns to less crowded MPC
JAMES TONEY reports from Beijing on the similarities – and the differences – in covering the Paralympics and the Olympics After a quick pit-stop for laundry, laptop exchange and expenses dump, it’s back to Beijing for a second Tour of Duty. Fears that organisers would start downgrading their facilities in the transition from Olympic to [...]
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5 Sep
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: Kevin Francis
KEVIN FRANCIS covered the Beijing Olympics for the Daily Star. Here are his thoughts on how London can learn from the 2008 Games
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4 Sep
2008
2008
Davies resigns as Olympic media chief
Giselle Davies has tonight delivered a shock resignation as director of communications at the International Olympic Committee, according to a website report.
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3 Sep
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: Matthew Brown
MATTHEW BROWN is a freelancer who has experience of working both sides of the counter in the MPCs at Olympics and major athletics championships, filing for newspapers and websites but also working for the organisers. He is back in Beijing ahead of the Paralympics. Here are his reflections on events thus far The Beijing Olympics [...]
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1 Sep
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: Mary-Anne Toy
MARY-ANNE TOY is the China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. Here is her assessment of the impact the Olympics have had on Beijing
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