10,000 Olympic athletes descend on London 2012
The stage is set for 10,000 athletes to descend on London’s Olympic village for the London 2012 Olympics.
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Team GB’s athletes have won: 29 gold medals, 16 silver and 19 bronze. Britain has finished third in the overall Olympic standings. Thank you #London2012 – next: The Paralympics
After boxing and taekwondo were contested by women for the first time and women’s football pulled in record crowds, Channel 4 News asks if London 2012 was a turning point for women’s sport.
• Ed McKeever wins Gold in 200m Canoe Sprint • Team GB wins bronze in women’s hockey • Anthony Ogogo loses boxing semi-final • Shanaze Reade qualifies for BMX final • Lutalo Muhammad fails to make the taekwondo semi-finals • Luke Campbell wins bantum boxing semi-final by nine points to five • Daniel Fogg finishes…
Lutalo Muhammad comes into the 80kg taekwondo event at London 2012 with a lot to prove after he was controversially selected for Team GB over world number one Aaron Cook.
Latest updates from London 2012 as Team GB targets medals in swimming and boxing.
Team GB targets more golds at London 2012.
Latest results and news – plus what the athletes are saying at London 2012.
The focus of British rowing interest turns to Northern Ireland on Thursday, as Coleraine-born Peter and Richard Chambers perform alongside Chris Bartley and Rob Williams in the lightweight men’s four.
Latest updates on day four of the Olympic Games in London.
After a week of sunny weather, rain and the forecast of hail on the second day of competition affected tennis at Wimbledon and made for slippery conditions in the women’s cycling road race.
Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins kicks-off an all-singing, all-dancing opening ceremony which charts Britain’s social and cultural history from Bond to Bean, via the NHS.
As London 2012 stages its spectacular opening ceremony, world reaction welcomes the event – apart from backbench Conservative MP Aidan Burley, who dismisses it as “leftie”.
“How many medals will we win? This one’s a bit easier. The answer’s 62. Fact.”
The stage is set for 10,000 athletes to descend on London’s Olympic village for the London 2012 Olympics.
The Olympics opening ceremony will not be “global pap”, Mayor of London Boris Johnson tells Channel 4 News, but “ingeniously traditional”.