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Category archive: BOA

23 Oct
2011

How Olympic officials “dealt” with harmful journalists

The edition of The Strand magazine published on the day that the 1948 Olympics opened: no cover photographs then, and not only was the currency different, so was the high jumping technique

Press relations were not a high priority for the organising committee as they prepared for the Olympics the last time they were staged in London, PHILIP BARKER writes. No World Press Briefing in those days, when the 1948 Games organisers and politicians paid some attention to the views of the press

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20 Aug
2011

Accreditation: Winter Youth Olympics

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Media accreditation is now open for next January’s Winter Youth Olympics

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18 Jul
2011

One Year to Go: Sir Clive Woodward is SJA guest

SJA lunch guiest: Sir Clive Woodward

With the London Games just one year away, Sir Clive Woodward, performance director of the British Olympic Association, is the SJA’s latest high-profile lunch guest

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12 Jul
2011

BOA to use Westfield centre as 2012 Games base

Westfield Stratford, a gateway to the Olympic Park

Team GB House will provide operational support, incorporatiing areas to engage with key stakeholders including Olympic partners, media and supporters

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6 Apr
2011

SJA panel criticises “embarrassing” Olympic cash row

SJA President Michael Parkinson greets the Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson ahead of our Question Time event

IAN COLE, flushed with the success of dominating the floor of the old GLC’s Debating Chamber in the style of a 1980s Ken Livingstone, reports on the headline-making SJA Olympic Question Time.
Photographs by STEVE ROWE

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1 Apr
2011

Accreditation: Olympic football and sailing venues

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The British Olympic Association has secured a limited number of single venue accreditations, so called Ex and EPx accreditations, primarily for local and regional media in the Co-Host cities for football and sailing only

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24 Dec
2010

BOA launches teleconferences for the media

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Each month the BOA will host a media teleconference, providing an efficient forum to bring together Team GB Olympic hopefuls with the media

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17 Nov
2010

Tony Blair admits mistake to British Olympic chief

Sir Craig "Tweedie": not Cheryl's dad, but a key figure in the 2012 Olympic bid

Blair has written to the British Olympic Association’s Sir Craig Reedie with an apology, and a corrected volume of his memoir A Journey, with the sports grandee’s name this time spelt accurately

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2 Nov
2010

Media advisory: BOA press conference

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The British Olympic Association (BOA) will host a media briefing following a meeting of the National Olympic Committee (NOC), which includes representatives of all 33 Olympic summer and winter sports

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5 Oct
2010

BOA: final reminder for 2012 media applications

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The ‘Press by Number’ media accreditation request process for print, online and photographic media organisations based in the UK for the London 2012 Olympic Games will close on Friday 15th October

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