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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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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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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BOA statement regarding GB boxing
The Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) choosing to yesterday (Wednesday) issue Billy Joe Saunders with a suspension relating to an incident which happen…
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BOA welcome home press conference
History beckons on Beijing’s Super Saturday
Tomorrow – already dubbed “Super Saturday”, just as the middle day at the Sydney and then Athens Games became known – has the …
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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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Beijing fireworks spark Munich memories
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Saturday: China’s statement to the world on what it can do for the Olympic Games left everyone open m…
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Let The Games Begin
Beijing, Friday: So to the Bird’s Nest Stadium for the long-awaited Opening Ceremony, along with George W Bush and about 80 heads of state, Micr…
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Federer escapes Village after ‘joke’ conference
The Opening Ceremony starts at 8pm local time (1pm BST) before a capacity stadium audience of 91,000, which includes some 80 world leaders, from US Pr…
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