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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Category: Beijing 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-winn…
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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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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, Pre…
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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 enjoy…
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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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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…
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