Award-winning news correspondent ANDREW GILLIGAN has been the London Evening Standard‘s self-proclaimed hard-line member of the International Ol…
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Category: Beijing 2008
Beijing perspective: John Cross
JOHN CROSS, of the Daily Mirror, at his third Olympics, offers his thoughts on Beijing and worries about London’s traffic…
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Beijing perspective: Patrick Collins
PATRICK COLLINS, a veteran of nine Olympics, is the much-admired chief sports writer of the Mail on Sunday, whose views are always keenly sought…
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Beijing perspective: Matthew Engel
China’s biggest contribution has been the warmth and enthusiasm of its people. They have been the stars of these Olympics, ahead of Usain Bolt,…
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Beijing perspective: John Goodbody
JOHN GOODBODY, formerly the sports news correspondent of The Times for 20 years, was covering the Beijing Olympics – his 11th Summer Games ̵…
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Posh and Becks, Pearly Queens, privet and umbrellas
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Saturday: Australia might not have finished as high in the medal table as they would have liked but they ar…
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Focus now shifts from Bird’s Nest to Stratford
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Friday: London began to make more impact on the Beijing Games today with 2012 chairman Seb Coe heading a co…
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The secret of Team GB’s success
From John Steele, Chief Executive, UK Sport This time last week, Team GB had won two gold medals. Now, just seven days later that total stands at a ma…
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PM Brown arrives for a golden handover
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Thursday: The US Open, which starts in New York on Monday with Rafael Nadal seeded top in a Grand Slam tour…
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Head of cultural Olympiad to leave LOCOG
Just days before the Olympic handover party in The Mall, the Evening Standard has reported that the man charged to organise 2012’s cultural and …
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