Daily life Tokyo stops to honor Olympic medalists
TOKYO, Japan ● Japan’s Olympic medalists brought downtown Tokyo to a standstill on Monday in an open-top bus victory parade witnessed...
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Melbourne dreaming of hosting Olympics
MELBOURNE, Australia Basking in the glory of being named the world’s most desirable metropolis, Melbourne is...
More and more athletes ‘missing’ after London
LONDON, England ● Athletes from Guinea and Ivory Coast have joined several other Africans who have gone missing...
Olympic flag lands in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil ● The Olympic flag touched down on Brazilian soil, marking the start of four years...
London 2012 were worth every penny
LONDON, England ● Fourteen billion dollars goes a long, long way; it would buy you three U.S....
Ostapchuk stripped of gold for doping
LONDON, England ● Olympic women’s shot put champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she...
Usain Bolt could play Twenty20 cricket in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia ● Negotiations are under way for cricket-mad sprint king Usain Bolt to play in Australia’s domestic Twenty20...
London 2012 venues example for Olympics to come
LONDON, England ● Future host cities of the world’s biggest sporting events will look to emulate the...
IOC moves into new territory after London triumph
LONDON, England ● After London rose to the occasion for a third time with an outstanding summer...
It’s all over… See you in 2016
LONDON, England ● London bade a flamboyant and madcap farewell...