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An urgent investigation is launched after Olympic fans express disappointment at the sight of rows of empty seats at most of the venues on the first day of the London 2012 Games.
Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins kicks-off an all-singing, all-dancing opening ceremony which charts Britain’s social and cultural history from Bond to Bean, via the NHS.
It seems almost insulting to whittle the entire Olympics down to a single event. And a single athlete – Usain Bolt. But he is the undisputed star of Olympic sport, eclipsing the considerable and combined talents of Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorious, and GB’s very own Steve Redgrave in his bamboozling, hellaciously brilliant, God-given talent.
Somali reporter Jamal Osman is named journalist of the year at the One World media awards for a collection of his films for Channel 4 News.
As the Olympic Park hosts a series of events designed to stretch its systems ahead of London 2012, Keme Nzerem concludes that the prospect of a wet summer appears to be the organisers’ main concern.
Crime around professional football grounds increases on matchday, a fact which could determine how much clubs pay towards the policing of matches, according to a police report.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins Afghanistan’s top female boxers as they fight their way to the London 2012 Olympics.
The 2012 Paralympics will begin with “intriguing” flame-lighting events across the UK, but organisers tell Channel 4 News final details and the torch design will stay secret until next year.
Sports reporter Keme Nzerem on the growing superstition that whoever features on the cover of the daily athletics programme will fall foul of the rules and suffer disqualification. Who will be next?
Channel 4 has exclusive access to the World Athletics Championship. Follow all the tweets as they happen from those reporting and presenting in the Daegu stadium.
Usain Bolt watches his teammate Yohan Blake win the men’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships after false-starting. It follows similar disappointments for Team GB, as Keme Nzerem reports.
Olympian Jonathan Edwards tells Channel 4 News he has to “pinch himself” on seeing the London 2012 venues with a year to go – but what else is left to do to make the games, and the legacy, a success?
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei appeared healthy but tense during his first meeting with his family since he was arrested more than a month ago, his wife says.
Every time Abdinasir Ibrahim pulls on his running shoes, he risks his life. In Somalia, training for the Olympics is a dangerous business, as Jamal Osman discovered.
Great sporting events like the Olympics always promise a great legacy but do they deliver? We’ve been back to South Africa after the World Cup.