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	Essential UK - London Olympics - British Council - Language Assistant
		This lesson is based around the Olympics games and gives students the opportunity to broaden their vocabulary of sports and to think about the qualities of the Olympic games’ host cities.
		Task 5 asks students to think about new events to be included in future Olympic Games and Task 6 to prepare a bid for their town or city to host a future Games.
		London has beaten Paris and three other cities in the race to host the Olympic Games in 2012.
	www.britishcouncil.org /languageassistant-london-olympics.htm (1345 words)

	London Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		London is the only city in the United Kingdom to have ever hosted the Olympics; the United States is the only country to have hosted them on more occasions than the UK.
		British participation in Olympic events, both as a competitor and as a host, is the responsibility of the British Olympic Association.
		The London 2012 Olympic bid was announced as the winner of the bidding process on 6 July 2005, following unsuccessful bid attempts for previous Olympics by Manchester and Birmingham.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Olympics (465 words)

	London Olympics 2012 - London Olympic History
		As one of the first of the modern Olympics, London 1908 was in on plenty of the rule-making that still governs the games today.
		London wins the right to gold the 2012 games, it’ll be 64 years since the big show was last in town.
		London was not considered at all in the 30 or so years after 1948, for the simple and just reason that it had recently hosted an Olympics.
	www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/guide/about/olympics2012_history.html (1024 words)

	LondonTown.com \| London 2012 - London to host 2012 Olympics
		London also won a surprise endorsement from Nelson Mandela, who praised it as the most multi-cultural city in the world.
		Last year London was an outsider in this contest, but the recovery of the bid coincided with a surge in the self-confidence of the city.
		London 2012 may be a surprise, but somehow it feels right.
	www.londontown.com /London/London_2012_Olympic_Bid_Victory (535 words)

	Railway Technology - London Olympics Transport Upgrade
		London's already extensive network of transportation assets is at the beginning of a series of upgrades and additions to make the city ready for the Olympic Games, which are being hosted in the United Kingdom's capital city in 2012.
		By the 2012 Olympics, there will be a total of ten public transport lines feeding the sporting area, including the centrepiece Olympic Javelin high-speed rail service on the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
		The Olympic Park will be served by one of these trains every 15 seconds, providing space for 25,000 passengers from the city centre.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/london-olympics (973 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - London Olympics 2012
		SPORTS minister Richard Caborn insists preparations for the London 2012 are on course despite the...
		LONDON'S plans for the 2012 Olympics were dealt a blow when Jack Lemley, the chairman of the...
		OLYMPIC chiefs have chosen the builders of Arsenal's new home to construct the new stadium for the...
	sport.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=856 (438 words)

	USATODAY.com - Blair: London Olympics will bring prosperity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Tony Blair predicts the 2012 London Olympics will generate economic prosperity and revive run-down parts of the city.
		Blair said London had "risen again" from the "period of anxiety" it experienced in the 1990s and London would treat the games as more than a two-week sports spectacle.
		Blair said London had to harness the optimism of its reaction to winning the Olympics on July 6, 2005, with the steadfastness of its response to the terrorist bombs on its transit system a day later, which killed 56 people, including the four attackers.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2006-04-04-london-2012_x.htm (445 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Olympics
		The International Olympic Committee has come to the defence of the organisers of the London Games, saying it is "very happy" with current progress and "not unduly concerned" about the budget.
		The project to organise the London Olympics suffered a setback yesterday when one of its senior figures resigned amid concerns over his health.
		The former Olympic 100m champion, who tested positive for nandrolone after he had retired from top-class competition and has since had a public row with the man who headed the bid to earn the 2012 Games, Seb Coe, was named yesterday by UK Athletics as one of four mentors for the build-up to London.
	sport.independent.co.uk /olympics (903 words)

	London Olympics 2012 - Olympic News & Info
		London's final presentation in Singapore centred on the twin legacies the games would have for youth and for east London, one of the capital's most disadvantaged areas.
		London's Olympic bid team are using the coincidence of today's date to drum up support, with babies and ice-skaters sharing top billing.
		Earlier this year, London's transport system came in for criticism in a preliminary report on bidding cities but London bid chief Coe is determined to turn the negative into a positive by offering free travel for spectators and 200 trains an hour to and from the Olympic site.
	www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/guide/about/olympics2012_news.html (2312 words)

	London Olympics 2012
		London wasn't expected to win the Olympics Bid so today at noon when the International Olympics Committee's decision was announced in Singapore, throughout UK the cheers were mixed with hefty sighs of relief.
		I was privy to some of the preparations for the bid, as my theatre colleague Jude Kelly has been in charge of the Arts side of the planning.
		I read Wordsworth's "On Westminster Bridge" to a jolly crowd of revellers who were also addressed by the Mayor of London and Sebastian Coe who has been heading the Bid committee.
	www.mckellen.com /events/londonolympics2012.htm (289 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Boost for London's Olympics bid
		London's bid for the 2012 Olympics today received a timely boost from the man credited with turning the Games into a financial success.
		Michael Payne, the former marketing chief for the International Olympic committee (IOC), claims Paris are not runaway favourites in the race to be hosts.
		His comments will provide huge encouragement for the capital with an IOC evaluation commission due in London for a four-day inspection tour this week.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2005/0214/olympics.html (124 words)

	London Olympics 2012 - NO !!!! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Londoners in outer boroughs are already shouldering the extra costs of anti-terrorist measures in central London, and the consequential reduction in local "bobbies on the beat".
		Given the terrorist threat to the Olympics in general, and to Britain in particular, the estimates for Security in the Arup report are ludicrously understated.
		Ideally, London should withdraw its bid for the 2012 Olympics before any more public money is wasted, however the deadline of July 15th 2003 has passed, and the bid letters of intent, and presumably the bidding fee have been sent to the IOC.
	www.mayor-of-london.co.uk /cgi-bin/no_london_olympics_2012.pl (4227 words)

	2012 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally London was seen lagging Paris by considerable margin, however this started to improve with the appointment of Sebastian Coe as new head of London 2012 on 19 May 2004.
		The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was put in place to oversee the development of the Games after the success of the bid, and held their first board meeting on 7 October 2005.
		London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_2012 (2318 words)

	CNN.com - London wins 2012 Olympics - Jul 6, 2005
		International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge made the announcement after IOC members voted 54-50 to eliminate the French capital in the fourth and final round of secret ballots Wednesday in Singapore.
		"The International Olympic Committee has the honor of announcing that the Games of the 30th Olympiad in 2012 are awarded to the city of London," Rogge declared after opening a sealed envelope containing the result.
		London used royalty to get its message across, with Princess Anne kicking off the city's one-hour presentation with a message from Queen Elizabeth II.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SPORT/07/06/singapore.olympics/index.html (1061 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		This gave London the majority that it needed to be elected as the host city for the 2012 Games.
		London had to overcome stiff competition, however, in the form of Paris, New York, Moscow and Madrid in its bid to get the Games.
		Reporting on the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission, Denis Oswald, told his EB colleagues that he remained very happy with the development and progress taking place in London at this...
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/london/index_uk.asp (304 words)

	London Olympics 2012 \| Not the Official Olympic Games London 2012 site
		While you are in London for the Olympic Games you will no doubt want to get out and about to see the sites and get the most from your stay in this great city.
		Right from the opening ceremony of the Olympics to the closing of the 2012 games, there will be much drama both in and out of the arena.
		The olympics are only every 4 years, and this games is sure to be special as these olympics are to held in London.
	www.the-2012-olympic-games-london.co.uk /aboutus.htm (574 words)

	FOXNews.com - London Wins Vote for 2012 Olympics - U.S. & World
		London, by contrast, pursued a high-profile, aggressive strategy and picked up steady momentum under the leadership of Coe and the strong political backing of Blair.
		The Olympic contest was inflamed by the recent tensions between Blair and Chirac, who have clashed over the Iraq war and European Union farm subsidies.
		London's Olympic project is centered on the massive urban renewal of a dilapidated area of East London, which will be turned into an Olympic park.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,161657,00.html (1393 words)

	London Olympics 2012
		ORGANIZERS of the 2012 London Olympics plan to secure major sponsors in the banking, car, telecommunication and utilities sectors by the end of the year.
		London's surprise victory to secure the 2012 Olympics may have come because a senior member of the International Olympic Committee pressed the wrong button on his electronic voting pad.
		TOURISM to London could be one of the most important beneficiaries of the Olympic games in 2012, the deputy chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee, Keith Mills, told industry representatives today.
	www.london-uk.us /london-olympics-2012/default.aspx (251 words)

	Discover Tower Hamlets - Olympics
		It outlines a strategy of engagement with the key Olympic and Paralympic programmes being developed by external agencies, and presents a preliminary programme of activities which is being further developed within the council and through the Tower Hamlets Partnership.
		Staff on the scheme will work with the agencies responsible for delivering the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as other agencies in the area, and their contractors, to identify and address training, employment and business opportunities and to act as a single point of contact for any vacancies that arise.
		As well as those Olympic events to be staged outside London, the rest of the UK will also benefit economically by creating world class training facilities to be used for pre-Games preparation by many of the 200 competing teams, and by organising pre-Olympic cultural and sporting events.
	www.towerhamlets.gov.uk /data/discover/data/olympics/index.cfm (949 words)

	London named 2012 Olympics host - Other Sports - MSNBC.com
		London got the Olympics for the first time since 1948, while Paris was frustrated for a third time in 20 years.
		The tan-suited London delegates in the convention hall leaped out of their seats, arms raised in jubilation and cheering wildly.
		In London, crowds cheered and waved flags as they watched the announcement from Singapore on a giant screen in Trafalgar Square, and in the east London area where the main Olympic complex will be based.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8476616 (656 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - O'Sullivan targets 2012 London Olympics
		The Sydney-based mother-of-two trains in London during summer months and said the 2012 games would suit her better than Beijing in 2008.
		If I was 20 years old, the Olympics could be on the moon and I'd still want to go and win.
		O'Sullivan may compete in the marathon in London as she has been increasingly competing in the event in recent years.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2006/0708/osullivan.html?rss (341 words)

	London Olympics on hurdler Liu's agenda
		Chinese track star Liu Xiang, who at 23 already owns the 110-metres hurdles world record and Olympic title, intends to remain a force in his sport into his 30s, state media have reported.
		"I've already decided - the 2008 Beijing Olympics won't be the end for me. I also want to compete in the 2012 London Olympics and keep running past the age of 30," Liu told the Beijing News on Monday.
		Liu won Olympic gold in 2004 in Athens - becoming the first male Chinese competitor to win a track and field gold medal - and set the world record of 12.88 seconds in the event earlier this year in Lausanne.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /2008/2006-12/26/content_767511.htm (302 words)

	USATODAY.com - London's Olympics: From Wimbledon to Wembley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LONDON (AP) — From the grass courts of Wimbledon to the prime minister's neighborhood, the venues for the 2012 Olympics in London will provide a variety of backdrops — both traditional and new.
		It's one of several London landmarks which will double as venues, along with a new 80,000-seat stadium in the East End suburb of Stratford.
		In Stratford, a suburb east of London, a 500-acre plot of land will be transformed into a main Olympic stadium and the athletes village.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2005-07-06-london-venues_x.htm (509 words)

	London Olympics 2012 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The London Chamber of Commerce strongly supported the London 2012 Olympics bid from the start and was instrumental in securing business support for both the bid and the Games.
		We are also setting up (in partnership with the London Business Board) an Olympic Business Club which will be launched at the end of the year.
		The LCCI will be hosting an Olympic Reception with Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP, Minister for Sport on Tuesday 28 November.
	www.londonchamber.co.uk /lcc_public/default.asp?id=252 (294 words)

	Costs escalate for 2012 London Olympics
		Staging the 2012 Olympics in London will cost about 500 million pounds ($1.05 billion Cdn) more than stated in the original bid, the government said Tuesday.
		But a representative for the London Olympic Organizing Committee (LOCOG), which is responsible for putting on the Games, said it had always known the original estimate of 1.5 billion pounds (about $3.13 billion Cdn) would go up once inflation was taken into account.
		Former Olympic champion Myriam Bédard may have to spend several months in a Maryland detention centre while she waits for authorities to process paperwork for her extradition.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/story/2006/05/16/london-olympics-overbudget.html (1174 words)

	FirstScience - London Olympics 2012 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Winning the Olympics was a historic achievement for London, and I don't believe that we should let terrorist scum forget that fact.
		The simple fact is that London is a magnificent city.
		The wonders of the internet being what they are, it ended up that one of the girls in the office headed up to my floor and nonchalently announced that we had won.
	www.firstscience.com /SITE/editor/0108_ramblings_08072005.asp (352 words)

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		View images of the London 2012 Games, including artists' impressions of the Olympic Park.
		27 Dec: London 2012 Chiefs have issued a New Year's statement marking the progress made in 2006.
		The London 2012 Organising Committee and the Olympic Delivery Authority are currently recruiting for a range of positions.
	www.london2012.org /en (93 words)

	London Olympics 2012
		London 2012 and the rest of the UK (2 Viewing)
		The Olympic Games provides a wealth of information and materials for use by schools, colleges, youth groups and others educational groups.
		Spending time out after hours in London must be classed as spectacular, with something for everyones taste.
	www.the2012londonolympics.com /forum (1149 words)

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