AFP’s JULIAN GUYER had never covered an Olympic Games before Beijing. Here, he offers his impressions of the 2008 Games and thoughts for 2012
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27 Aug
2008
2008
Olympic sponsors give TVs to gold medallists
Panasonic, global sponsors of the Olympic Games, are giving a high-definition television to each of Britain’s 19 Beijing Olympic gold medal-winners.
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27 Aug
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: Leo Mason
Photographer and SJA committee member LEO MASON, whose pictures adorn this site, has shot at eight Olympic Games including Beijing. Here’s his perspective on the Games through a photographer’s lens
Continue reading →This week, the Mail on Sunday really did win an Olympic medal for Britain – thanks to the photographic evidence provided by Dave Shopland, pictured above with bronze medal fighter Sarah Stevenson, at the controversial taekwondo in Beijing. Rob Draper’s report in the paper takes up the story:
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26 Aug
2008
2008
‘Team BBC’: too much cheerleading
MATTHEW NORMAN on the matter of tone in Team BBC’s Olympic coverage
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25 Aug
2008
2008
London’s countdown has begun
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Monday: At 9.06pm on the steamy night of August 24, 2008, the Olympic flag was passed by Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee, into the hands of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, and the greatest project which British sport has seen moved a significant step nearer to [...]
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25 Aug
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: Seb Coe
SEB COE, chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, has now less than four years to deliver an Olympics as memorable and enjoyable as that in Beijing. In this week’s Observer, he put forward these thoughts
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24 Aug
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: Richard Williams
RICHARD WILLIAMS is the Guardian‘s chief sports writer. Beijing was his fifth summer Games, and he was impressed
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24 Aug
2008
2008
Beijing perspective: James Lawton
SJA member JAMES LAWTON is the award-winning Independent sportswriter, has just covered his ninth Olympics and he reckons Beijing carried the Games to a new dimension
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