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Olympic security – why Beijing was no gold standard
There is a Chinese proverb for every occasion and mine for the Olympic security row is “Be careful what you wish for.”
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An Olympic women’s football game is delayed after officials display the South Korean flag, instead of the North Korean flag, before kick-off.
Triple gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy is chosen to carry Team GB’s flag at the London 2012 opening ceremony as the countdown continues to the Games.
The Olympic torch races through London on its first full day in the capital, giving crowds a “supreme buzz” before opening ceremonies kick off 27 July.
The Olympic torch is to be abseiled down to the Tower of London by a Royal Marine commando to start its journey around the capital.
Olympics organisers are cutting parts of the opening ceremony to ensure it finishes in time for spectators to get home using public transport.
Half a million Olympic football tickets are to be withdrawn from sale as an extra 200,000 tickets for other sports are to be made available online during the next ten days running up to the Games.
The first event of the London 2012 Olympics could be played in a half-empty Millennium Stadium, Channel 4 News has learned.
There is a Chinese proverb for every occasion and mine for the Olympic security row is “Be careful what you wish for.”
“Yes, there are Olympic virtues. No they’re not the ones Boris Johnson – in his finest rhetorical mode – listed. And no, they’re nothing to do with the rings.”
More tickets for some of the most popular sessions at the London 2012 Olympics are being made available, as tickets for the football tournament continue to disappoint.
One vest, one pair of shorts, a travel pass and some photos – 1948 Olympic basketball player Lionel Price shows Channel 4 News his games memorabilia and says playing in those days “was no big deal”.
As young people from Whizz-Kidz test London’s buses, trains and boats for disabled users in Olympic year, its Kidz Board delivers a transport manifesto for No Go Britain.
An online street map showing the exact route of the Olympic torch relay has been released. It is hoped 95 per cent of the population will be within 10 miles of the route.
London’s 2012 opening ceremony is to be called Isles of Wonder, organisers have revealed. With just six months to go, Britain’s Olympic medallists tell Channel 4 News “this Games will be spectacular”.
“How can you calculate the long-term returns on the Olympic facilities when you don’t know whether a newly-built stadium will turn out to be a popular sports centre or the next Millennium Dome?”