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...
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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...