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Category archive: London 2012

6 Apr
2013

Olympics editor and cycling writer to leave Telegraph

Jacquelin Magnay: had inside track on Olympic stories for Telegraph

Jacquelin Magnay, the paper’s Olympics editor and one of the most senior women sports journalists working in Britain, and Brendan Gallagher, the cycling correspondent, are among the latest sports desk casualties of the “restructuring” exercise being undertaken at the Telegraph

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1 Nov
2012

National Lottery to sponsor British Sports Awards

National Lottery

The Sports Journalists’ Association is delighted to announce The National Lottery as our headline sponsor of this year’s SJA British Sports Awards

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16 Oct
2012

Warner has plenty to keep him busy at BBC London

SJA member Adrian Warner's BBC London job has been redefined

Adrian Warner, BBC London’s Olympic correspondent, is the latest SJA member to have his job realigned following the end of the Games

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10 Oct
2012

Sports editor Radford takes Reuters to tribunal

Reuters global sports editor Paul Radford gets his six days in court beginning next week

Reuters faces an age discrimination claim in a London Employment Tribunal next week brought by its veteran sports editor Paul Radford over his removal from coverage of the London Olympics

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4 Oct
2012

Beard builds on Olympic experience with new role

New job: Matthew Beard

With the Games over, sports desks across the country are beginning to redeploy staff who, in some cases, have spent nearly a decade on the Olympic beat

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3 Oct
2012

Athletics Writers ready for 50th anniversary awards

With two Olympic gold medals, Mo Farah has a chance of winning the votes of the BAWA membership as their male athlete of 2012

After possibly the greatest Olympic Games ever staged, including the greatest single night in the history of British athletics, the British Athletics Writers’ Association is staging its 50th annual awards lunch on Friday October 26

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7 Sep
2012

I wanna tell you a Storey: London’s Games have legs

Jonnie Peacock wins the T44 100 metres final at the Paralympic Games last night

As the Paralympics draw towards a close, NORMAN GILLER shares a confession that features arguably our greatest ever wheelchair athlete, Baroness Grey-Thompson, and exposes him at his most stupid

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31 Aug
2012

Our golden Sports Awards to be at the Tower, Dec 6

Tower of London

The 2012 SJA British Sports Awards will be staged at a prestigious new venue by the Tower of London and promises to be a glistening celebration of the most golden of sporting years

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21 Aug
2012

Fond farewells after an Olympic job well done

Olympic veterans Neil Wilson, left, Alan Hubbard and John Goodbody at the special presentation from Lord Coe to mark their long and distinguished careers

The MPC showcased to us and our guests what could be done for the media. From the welcome desk to the working desk, with the sustained backing of dozens of volunteers, little was left to chance. It was a formidable effort

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20 Aug
2012

Struck by a Bolt as I viewed from the “other” side

Charlie Burgess assures us that he was not always quite so relaxed when on duty in his Billy Smart's Circus uniform at the Olympic Stadium

LONDON CALLING: He’s reported on the Olympics and Tour de France and been sports editor of a national newspaper, but at the London Games, CHARLIE BURGESS was a Games Maker. This is his account of life in the Mixed Zone

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