Olympics Archives - Page 15 of 55 - Sports Journalists' Association

January 30, 2012August 2, 2012

Olympian for whom peace was important thing

Philip Noel-Baker, who turned down recognition as a Companion of Honour in 1965, remains the only man to win an Olympic medal and the Nobel Peace Priz…

January 20, 2012January 22, 2012

Olympics where all that Glitters is not media gold

PHILIP BARKER reports from Austria on the media arrangements for the first Winter Youth Olympics, and expresses a preference in interlude music for Th…

January 19, 2012January 21, 2012

Danson and Pearn honoured by Hockey Writers

Mark Pearn and Alex Danson have been named UK Players of the Year for 2011 following the annual poll conducted among British members of the Hockey Wri…

January 19, 2012

Accreditation: WADA symposium, Lausanne, Feb 7

The 2012 WADA symposium, including sessions with WADA President John Fahey and Director General David Howman, will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, o…

January 10, 2012January 17, 2012

Key media dates in badminton’s Olympic build-up

Badminton's Olympic qualifying race has entered its final months, but there are still some key home dates in the international calendar where media ca…

January 9, 2012January 11, 2012

200 days to go: Coe’s Olympic media message

The chairman of LOCOG, LORD COE, begins the final countdown to the Greatest Show on Earth with this message for the Sports Journalists' Association…

December 30, 2011December 30, 2011

Golden days for Olympic reporter who scored with Britain

On the eve of 2012, PHILIP BARKER looks back to the Olympic year of 1912, and the football reporter who won a gold medal for Britain at the Stockholm …

December 3, 2011

Goalball’s silent mission to win over the media

PHILIP BARKER visits the first Paralympic sport to test out the facilities in London's Olympic Park…

November 28, 2011December 9, 2011

Laureus World Sports Awards to come to London

The awards ceremony, which will be attended by some of the greatest names in sport, past and present, and broadcast to a worldwide TV audience, will b…

November 24, 2011November 26, 2011

Britain’s Olympic debut handled with great care

PHILIP BARKER is spending the week at Olympic Park at the latest 2012 test event, trying to get a handle on handball…