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London 2012 Olympic Games end with a party
London’s Olympic Stadium is turned from an athletics track into a massive musical show to celebrate the end of the London 2012 Games.
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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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Tom Daley’s Olympic highs and lows
Tom Daley tells Channel 4 News that his focus is now on the next Olympics in Rio where he hopes his performance will be at its peak.
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Mo-mentum with Farah for second gold
Mo Farah will be hoping to win his second London 2012 gold in the 5,000m final this evening – with Team GB striking gold in kayaking.
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Yorkshire continues rise in Olympic medals table
Alistair Brownlee’s triathlon victory means Yorkshire leapfrogs Hungary, North Korea and the Netherlands in the London 2012 medal rankings.
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Gemma Gibbons wins Team GB a judo silver
Gemma Gibbons wins a silver medal – Team GB’s first judo medal in 12 years – in a thrilling final against the USA.
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GB triumph in front of biggest ever women’s football crowd
It was a glimpse into a parallel universe where rival fans share jokes, mounted police pose for souvenir snaps and the Brits beat Brazil.
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Rain follows sun to hit conditions at London 2012
After a week of sunny weather, rain and the forecast of hail on the second day of competition affected tennis at Wimbledon and made for slippery conditions in the women’s cycling road race.
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British people amongst most inactive
British people are amongst the least active on earth, a new report suggests, with lower levels of activity than the US, France and the Republic of Ireland.
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IMF cuts growth forecast for the UK
The UK economic forecast is cut and the global recovery shows further signs of weakness, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook today.
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Should Jerusalem be England’s national anthem?
David Cameron suggests the hymn Jerusalem should replace God Save the Queen as the anthem for England’s sports teams.
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‘Seven killed’ at pro-Assad TV station in Syria
Gunmen kill journalists and security guards at a pro-government television station near Damascus, after President Bashar al-Assad says the country is in a “state of war”.
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Euro 2012: why do England lose in football tournaments?
After England’s defeat in the quarter finals of Euro 2012, Channel 4 News looks at why the national team tend to disappoint when it really matters.
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Is the eurozone hitting world growth?
World leaders at the G20 meeting in Mexico are queuing up to tell the eurozone its problems are beginning to hurt them. But are their problems home-grown?
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Prince Charles urges action on climate change
The Prince of Wales urges world leaders to adopt a better, more integrated approach to issues like climate change in a pre-recorded speech to a UN sustainability conference in Brazil.