2009
16
Oct
The International Figure Skating Union’s Grand Prix Series enters its 15th season this weekend with its first event: The Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire, in Paris. Competition starts Friday in competition, the first of six that will lead up to the Grand Prix Final in Tokyo in December and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. It will [...]
2009
2
Oct
Tokyo’s hopes of hosting the 2016 Olympics were shattered Friday as the Japanese capital was eliminated in the second round of voting by the International Olympic Committee.
Rio de Janeiro was named the winner of rights to stage the 2016 Games, beating Madrid in the final round of voting to become the first South American [...]
2009
13
Jul
Full marks to Logan Campbell from New Zealand for using his initiative wrt sourcing funds for his Olympics 2012 bid to win a medal at taekwondo, he has opened a 14 bedroom brothel.New Zealand decriminalised prostitution six years ago, and brothels are …
2009
6
Jul
The hapless Olympics Minister, Tessa Jowell, is to quit Parliament at the next election (latest 2010). Which means that she will be quitting at least two years before the London games.Will this make any difference to the Olympics?Olympic Medals won dur…
2009
27
Feb
The Olympics in 2012 is turning out to be a security nightmare, presenting the Home Office with the largest peacetime security operation since the Second World War.There will be up to 10,000 officers policing the event, this accounts for around 7% of a…
2009
2
Feb
Every cloud has a silver lining, and it should come as no surprise to learn that even if the Olympics are a colossal waste of money and that we are facing the worst recession for decades, lawyers will still make money out of the games.That at least is …
2009
20
Jan
Welsh Heritage Minister, Alun Ffred Jones, has claimed that Wales could lose £100M of diverted lottery money to the 2012 Olympics.He told the Commons Welsh Affairs Committee, as per Wales Online: “There’s a downside, of course, in terms of lost Lotter…
2008
15
Sep
The BBC have uncovered an alleged scam whereby hundreds of East European workers have been conned by a promise of non-existent jobs at the London 2012 Olympic site. 550 Slovakians paid cash deposits of £600 to convicted fraudster Nigel Lewis, who is b…
2008
22
Aug
Gordon Brown, Britain’s Prime Minister, finally made it to Beijing to watch the tail end of the games and to attend the closing ceremony.Needless to say, given Brown’s penchant for attracting bad luck, some wags have pointed out that his arrival will h…
2008
18
Aug
Before the Olympics began, Beijing Olympic organisers claimed that that all the 6.8 million tickets to Olympic events had been sold.However, it seems that there are empty seats in the Bird’s Nest and other venues.Organisers are trying to “save face” by…