Search results for ‘Olympic Stadium’
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London 2012 Olympics: ‘We did it right’
As the London 2012 Olympic Games ends with a spectacular closing ceremony, Lord Coe says Britain “did it right”, while Jacques Rogge declares the Games “happy and glorious”.
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Kate Bush tipped to star in Olympics closing ceremony
The reclusive star is rumoured to be performing at the Olympics closing ceremony along with dozens of famous acts including the Spice Girls, Tinie Tempah and The Who.
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London 2012: was this the women’s Olympics?
After boxing and taekwondo were contested by women for the first time and women’s football pulled in record crowds, Channel 4 News asks if London 2012 was a turning point for women’s sport.
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Snatching Olympic success from the jaws of doom
With warnings of inadequate security and traffic chaos, the doomsayers were having a field day in the run-up to London 2012. And then the Games began.
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The greatest day in Britain’s Olympic history?
Jess Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah storm to victory in track and field events while Britain’s rowers and cyclists clinch three more golds.
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British Olympic stars aim for ‘Super Sunday’
Team GB wins a sailing silver on Sunday following Saturday’s historic medal haul which included six golds in track and field, rowing and cycling.
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Ohuruogu hopes to retain Olympic title
Britain’s only reigning athletics Olympic champion will have to overcome the odds to retain her track and field title in London, but the Newham-raised athlete is no stranger to adversity.
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Olympic archive: Atlanta’s tarnished dream (1996)
For some, the commercialism of the 1996 Atlanta Games undermined the Olympic ideal. For others, it merely confirmed that sponsorship was a necessary part of any major sporting event.
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Olympic archive: Romania’s Olympic trials (1984)
Romania was the only eastern blog country not to follow the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. ITN’s Paul Davies travelled to Bucharest to watch athletes as they trained.
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Spare Olympic tickets to go back on sale
Locog is now monitoring the number of tickets used after an abundance of empty seats at the weekend, and will put returned tickets on sale the night before events.
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Olympic test for London transport
As London’s transport system faces its first major test of the Olympics, organisers say security has not been compromised by the loss of keys at Wembley Stadium.
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Olympic archive: Moscow prepares (1979)
Moscow’s preparations to host the 1980 Games were well underway when ITN visited the Soviet capital in 1979. But then the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and a US-led Olympic boycott followed.
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Alternative Olympics: the artist
In a three-part series Channel 4 News speaks to the “alternative Olympians” living and working in Hackney Wick; beginning with artist and sculptor Annie Attridge.
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From hinterland to Olympics, the journey of a brief city
When filmmaker Paul Kelly first pointed his camera at the Olympic site in east London it was a strange wasteland. Writing for Channel 4 News, he describes what he found seven summers later.
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Olympic archive: building chaos in Montreal (1976)
With the 1976 games only months away, ITN’s Michael Brunson was dispatched to Montreal, where a flight over the Olympic Stadium revealed huge gaps between sections of the building.