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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Month: August 2008
Press chief Newsom leaves BOA to go solo
The British Olympic Association, already seeking a new chief executive to replace Simon Clegg and planning a move away from its quaint listed building…
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Hartlepool bans newspapers over commercial deal
Jeff Stelling will be gobsmacked: his beloved Hartlepool has banned from its ground reporters and photographers from the Hartlepool Mail and the North…
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SFA’s Shorthouse is up for the D-cups
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-winn…
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People suspends sports editor over ‘irregularities’
The People has suspended its sports editor, Lee Horton, over alleged “financial irregularities”.…
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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 p…
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Is the BBC censoring its sports blog?
How the Mail on Sunday ‘won’ an Olympic medal
This week, the Mail on Sunday really did win an Olympic medal for Britain – thanks to the photographic evidence provided by Dave Shopland, pictu…
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‘Team BBC’: too much cheerleading
MATTHEW NORMAN on the matter of tone in Team BBC’s Olympic coverage…
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