Search results for ‘olympics’
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Team GB misses out on diving medal
Britain’s divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield miss out on a medal as China clinches gold.
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Team GB’s men win bronze in the artistic gymnastics
Great Britain’s male artistic gymnastics team wins its first Olympic medal since 1912 – in an unexpected result that will give encouragement to the rest of Team GB.
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Tom Daley bids for Olympic glory
Tom Daley bids for Olympic platform synchro glory alongside Pete Waterfield today – eight years after being inspired by his partner’s silver medal feat in Athens.
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Olympic archive: Coe v Ovett (1980)
The rivalry between Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett defined British athletics in the late 1970s. ITN followed the athletes at Bislett in Oslo, their final meeting before the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Seb Coe: I’ll see your holiday snaps later
As anger mounts over empty seats at the London 2012 Olympics, Channel 4 News’s Paraic O’Brien offers Lord Coe photographic evidence of vacant blocks at the men’s gymnastics event.
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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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Empty Games seats prompt ticket probe
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.
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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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Judo officials hope to avert new diplomatic incident
Judo competitors are among those collecting the first gold medals today while behind the scenes officials scamble to avoid another diplomatic incident – this time with Saudi Arabia over a hijab ban.
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Cinematic ceremony launches London 2012
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.
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MP rains on London 2012 parade with ‘leftie’ jibe
As London 2012 stages its spectacular opening ceremony, world reaction welcomes the event – apart from backbench Conservative MP Aidan Burley, who dismisses it as “leftie”.
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Cavendish misses out on road race medal
British cyclists fail to capitalise on their Tour de France success, while swimmer Hannah Miley also misses out on a medal. Meanwhile, Chinese shooter Yi Siling wins the first gold at London 2012.
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Can Cavendish take cycle race gold?
After last week’s British success in the Tour de France, Manx sprint king Mark Cavendish can reinforce Britain’s current cycling dominance by taking gold in the opening day’s road race.
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Cyclists arrested in Games public order crackdown
A demonstration against corporate sponsorship of London 2012 today followed last night’s arrest of more than 100 cyclists who, police say, were trying to disrupt the Games route network.
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Olympic archive: sprinter Alan Wells (1978)
Two years before the 1980 Games, Scottish sprinter Alan Wells revealed to ITN that his ambition was to prove himself a “reasonable sprinter”. He went on to win gold and silver medals in Moscow.
