The Seattle Times: Olympics:
Olympic organizers have settled a legal fight with a longtime unauthorized ticket seller — by giving that Canadian seller authorized tickets. (Read More)
The Olympics:
It seems that mere mortals in Woolwich, not lucky enough to be granted special travel lanes/travel arrangements for the Olympics, will be suffering some considerable travel inconvenience during (and indeed in the 9 months preceding) the London Olympics.The Olympics Delivery Authority (ODA) will be closing roads around the 2 (Read More)
New York Times:
China has already begun to throw the considerable weight of its state-run sports system behind the game of golf after the sport won a place at the 2016 Olympics last month in Copenhagen.
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The Olympics:
Unsurprisingly, as money is pumped into East London (around the site of London 2012 Olympics), property prices are rising and those locals who are at the bottom end of the economic pecking order are being displaced by a slow but steady wave of gentrification.The legacy of the games, as espoused by the politcians, was meant (Read More)
2010 Winter Olympics:
New blog system at 2010 OlympicsOlympics has changed blogging systems and the URL. Please go here to check out the new site.Make sure to update any bookmarks or RSS feeds you had pointing to our old system as they will no longer work.New blog URL: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/olympicsNew RSS feed: http://blog.thenewstribu (Read More)
2010 Winter Olympics:
The News Tribune has updated its blogging system the new URL for the blog is:
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/olympics. (Read More)
The Olympics:
The controversy over the "Lisa Simpson Gives Head" London 2012 Olympic logo continues unabated.This time Brett Gosper, president of McCann Worldgroup in Europe (the agency that is promoting the games), weighed into the controversy noting that he would "probably not" have chosen it to represent the London 2012 games.London 2 (Read More)
The Olympics:
It is "interesting" to note that, despite the Olympics 2012 being the greatest security threat to this country since the Second World War (not my words, but Lord West's), Olympics organisers are recruiting teenagers to guard the games.London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) want to train up to 6,000 teenage (Read More)
The Seattle Times: Olympics:
Sead Dizdarevic, the businessman who controls most of the world's Olympic 'hospitality' business, makes an enormous profit through connections and cunning. (Read More)
The Seattle Times: Olympics:
As I indicated yesterday, there will be much more comment here about the ongoing series in The Times about tickets and accommodation to the 2010 Winter Games, and to the Olympics in general. But when timely questions arise that merit immediate comment, I'll take them on here. (Read More)
The Seattle Times: Olympics:
In case you missed it, the TImes begins a four-part series on the ticket and travel monopoly that makes attending the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver so out of reach for most Olympic fans. It's a rare glimpse inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar world of Olympic business. Part one answers a simple question: Who gets ti (Read More)