Tag: London 2012 Olympic Games
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FEI President celebrates London 2012
Lausanne (SWI), August 16, 2012: FEI President HRH Princess Haya is proud to announce that London 2012 was a clean Games for equestrian sport, following confirmation that all human and equine samples taken during the Olympic equestrian events at Greenwich Park were negative. “The FEI had a really steep mountain to climb after Athens and…
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My Olympics – London 2012 in their words
London – GBR, August 14, 2012: “We are superheroes and we do tricks that no one can do.” It reads like the tagline for a summer blockbuster movie but in fact these were the words of the United States’ Gabby Douglas, winner of the Women’s Individual All-around crown at London 2012. Superheroes they may seem…
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Glorious’ Games end with British pop pageant
London – GBR, August 14, 2012: Pageant, There was music, there were lights and there were doubtless tears in a few eyes as the London Olympics ended on a night of celebration on Sunday. The Olympic Stadium that had served as a field of dreams for the past fortnight became a stage for ‘A Symphony…
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Colombian runner exclude from London
London – GBR, August 12, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has excluded Colombian athlete Diego Palomeque Echavarria (athletics, men’s 400m) from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. The athlete had been provisionally suspended on 4 August 2012. Eighteen-year-old Palomeque Echavarria, who was scheduled to compete on 4 August,…
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IOC bans Alex Schwazer from competing at London
London – GBR, August 10, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it had declared Italian athlete Alex Schwazer (race walking) ineligible to compete at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London for an anti-doping rule violation. Schwazer, 27, provided a urine sample on 30 July in Calice, Italy, that tested positive…
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Key facts and numbers after each competition
London – GBR August 03, 2012: Key facts from men’s archery individual event:OH Jin Hyek (KOR) became the first Olympic gold medallist from Asia in the men’s individual event in archery. • Coming into these Olympic Games, archers from Asia had won seven medals in this event, but never a gold. • OH won Korea…
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IOC excludes artistic gymnast after B sample
London – GBR, August 01, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that Uzbek athlete Luiza Galiulina (artistic gymnastics) has been excluded from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. Galiulina provided a urine sample on 25 July that tested positive for the prohibited substance furosemide. The analysis of the B sample confirmed…
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Cubans fighters show their pedigree
London, Great Britain, July 31, 2012 – Cubans, Day four of the London 2012 Olympic Games and it was the turn of the Men’s Light Fly (46-49kg) and Light Welterweight (64kg) to step on to the ring in the first round of preliminaries at the ExCeL arena. The afternoon session bore witness to eleven pulsating…
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IPC Website to Feature Revolutionary
London – GBR, July 31, 2012: IPC website, The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) website www.paralympic.org will feature a groundbreaking new video player for the London 2012 Paralympic Games which integrates live footage and results in a single unified and synchronized view. Developed by the IPC’s worldwide IT partner Atos, and integrated with cloud streaming media…
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Gold for DPR Korea and for Georgia
London – GBR, July 29, 2012: Women’s -52kg: Joy for AN as she Realizes Olympic Gold Dream: Of the 8 women’s seeds that began the second day only one managed to make it to the quarter final stage. Many people will consider current world champion Nakamura Misato’s loss in her opening match to An Kum…