Search results for ‘London Olympics 2012 special report’
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LIVE BLOG: Medals rush for Team GB
Latest updates from Channel 4 News on day five of London 2012.
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Bradley Wiggins wins Team GB’s second gold medal
Bradley Wiggins wins Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s second gold of the Olympics – cementing his position as the UK’s greatest ever road cyclist.
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Hope lies with rowers to end GB’s gold drought
Team GB is hoping to break its gold medal duck later today as Heather Stanning and Helen Glover compete together in the women’s rowing pairs.
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Badminton players lose appeal against Olympic ban
Eight badminton players from South Korea, China and Indonesia are disqualified from the Olympic doubles over match-fixing allegations.
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Bannister praises ‘enormous advances’ in anti-doping
It was described as the “Everest of athletics”. Almost 60 years after Sir Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile he talks to Channel 4 News about sporting barriers, the Olympics and doping.
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Britain’s first gold from female rowers
Olympic rowing pair Heather Stanning and Helen Glover win Team GB’s first gold medal – and put female rowers at the top of the Olympic podium for the first time in history.
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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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Ye Shiwen: why is she being accused of doping?
As Chinese gold medal-winning swimmer Ye Shiwen faces accusations that she used banned drugs in the Olympics, Channel 4 News looks at the evidence.
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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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Empty seats continue to blight Olympic events
French President Francois Hollande criticises Locog for giving away “too many corporate seats” as spectators tell Channel 4 News that rows of empty seats remain at some events.
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Team eventing silver for British riders
British horse riders fight off New Zealand and Sweden in equestrian team eventing to finish second behind Germany, securing a second silver medal for Team GB at London 2012.
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Eyes on Florence as he chases canoe slalom glory
Britain’s main gold medal hopes will lie in the hands of the world’s number one ranked canoe salalomist, David Florence.
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LIVE BLOG: latest from the Olympic Games
Latest updates from Channel 4 News at London 2012.
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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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Team GB misses out on diving medal
Britain’s divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield miss out on a medal as China clinches gold.