Originally Posted by hinarei Let's be fair here... we're going to be nowhere near Beijing on the presentation side. So long as we get out usable venues and transport links it'll be enough. The Tube's a nightmare, so I can only assume when the Games come round that we'll not be able to go to work at all during those two weeks My previous thoughts on this still hold true, even after the preceding few years. News this week that LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic & Paralympic Games) ...
The area around the new Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London, is to receive a previously fictional postcode, which will serve 5 new districts that are due to be created after the 2012 Olympics. The E20 postcode was previously only to be found in the soap opera EastEnders, which got it's own postcode when it started back in 1985. The new districts will have 3 zones, and the Olympic Stadium will get its own special code - E20 2ST. Zones 4 to 9 could be added in over the coming ...
Luge chiefs have admitted the track on which the Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili died at the 2010 Winter Olympics was faster than it was designed to be. The International Luge Federation report said a top speed of 136kmh (85mph) was expected but the actual top speed recorded was 153.98kmh (96mph). But the FIL also said "no single reason" could account for his death during training for the Games. He died at Whistler Sliding Centre, hours before ...
...you don't half make things tense. This is pretty much it for me in terms of the Winter Games. This is the matchup I've been waiting for, as have 19000 Canadian fans inside Canada Hockey Place and oh, say 30 million nationwide. The expectation around the country cannot be higher. Forget "owning the podium" and the highest host nation gold medal total in the history of the Winter Olympics, men's hockey is the one they want. Tickets were changing hands ...
Canada 3 -2 Slovakia Zoinks. We got a close game all right. This is what I expected at the sharp end of an Olympic programme. Nail-biting finish to a game that Canada should have had in the bag long before the horn. The hosts eased their way into a 2-0 lead in the first, Patrick Marleau putting the puck past the Slovak tender Jaroslav Halak at 13:30, getting the call after his touch wasn't judged a high stick. Canada doubled their advantage less than two minutes ...
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