The head of the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee today denied that China had ever made any undertakings about providing greater freedom of speech …
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Month: August 2008
UK Athletics to run road running from Dublin
Journalists get shake down from police and hotels
Following the murder of an American tourist, Todd Bachman, while visiting the Drum Tower monument in the city centre on Saturday, body searching is in…
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Time running out to collect £50
Any SJA members who have not yet taken full advantage of our partnership with BT Vision by signing up to BT Total Broadband and collecting a £50 we…
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Murrays bow out of Beijing in all-too-quick time
In all the analysis of Michael Phelps’s on-going achievement as “the Greatest Olympic athlete of all-timeâ€, with his overall tally …
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Ex-pat businessman offers help to scam victims
An ex-patriot British businessman based in Beijing, touched by the plight of British Olympic gold medal-winner Rebecca Adlington’s parents who l…
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Claim your ticket for London Olympic event
The SJA has six free tickets to give away to Association members to attend the first sports event to be staged at a London 2012 venue in the new Olymp…
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Photographer Jacobs buys London Features agency
Pooley proves she is not a lightweight in medal stakes
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Wednesday: Cyclist Emma Pooley‘s silver medal in the women’s individual time trial only went to…
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Chinese army in security clampdown at Olympics
Security agents on Sunday reportedly detained a Christian activist on his way to a church service attended by US President George W Bush…
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