On Saturday Amy Williams won Britain's first solo Olympic Winter Games gold medal for 30 years. It was a fantastic moment and this picture really captures the joy and elation that she, and the rest of the UK, felt when she won.
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0 Comments on this postI can't believe there are only a few days left of the Vancouver Winter Olympics – I've really enjoyed watching all the action over the last 10 days or so and cheering on Team GB. They’ve all performed brilliantly and Amy Williams’ gold was the icing on the cake so far!
Whilst I enjoy watching all winter sports, I have to say that the one I have a particular soft spot for is the figure skating. I really enjoyed the performances from Sinead and John Kerr and Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland yesterday – they...
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0 Comments on this postThe London 2012 blog is featuring Olympic Summer Games athletes writing about their winter sport equivalents. But every now and then an athlete becomes renowned by actually picking up a second sport. Team GB cyclist Rebecca Romero was previously an Olympic rower; U.S. basketball legend Michael Jordan dallied in baseball. Triathletes, decathletes and modern pentathletes clearly all have a pretty diverse range of skills.
That said, there have only been about 15 people to compete in both a Summer and Winter Olympics. Four of these athletes won a medal in both Games. And there has been only one person...
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4 Comments on this postHasn’t it been a fantastic week of action in Vancouver? And – as we saw so well during Beijing – there’s nothing like Team GB success to get the UK excited. I gave a talk to the team in Bath last year – it was nice to meet Amy and the team back then and I am so pleased to see her get Gold. Well done Amy!
Following in the footsteps of Heather and Christine already blogging on this website, I’ve also been watching my own ‘sister sport’ of the Winter Olympics – bobsleigh. At first glance
Congratulations to Amy Williams for her stunning Skeleton win at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver! It was a brilliant effort requiring immense speed and skill. The first Team GB women's individual gold medal for 58 years was so well deserved.
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0 Comments on this postIn the latest of our popular audio blogs, London 2012's Director of Paralympic Integration, and Paralympic swimming Champion, Chris Holmes speaks to us about progress during his first 6 months in the job, and his hopes for the next couple of years.
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This week I spotted this great image of GB athletes (Goldie Sayers and Jamie Staff) showing their support for Vancouver. It really brings it home that London 2012 is just around the corner for us.
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Christine Ohuruogu, athlete, 18 February 2010
I'm in Jamaica at the moment for some winter training – working hard, but, I admit it, enjoying the heat too!
I'm equally enjoying the amazing sport action happening in the snow over in Vancouver.
I watched the Speed Skating ladies 500 metres yesterday, cheering on our Team GB athletes. Their sport is similar to what I do in the 400m sprint – but on ice on blades a millimetre thick and at a speed of up to 45km per hour!
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0 Comments on this postWe're savouring the excitement here in Canada - and there's plenty of that! Just as our Live Sites in the UK are now carrying all the films of British athletes plus some great Canadian films from the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE), so we are bringing the best in competition and entertainment from all over Canada to the live sites in Vancouver.
Meanwhile the Live Sites in Whistler are featuring nightly shows bringing the best of Canadian entertainment to the audiences at either end of Highway 99 - the 'Sea to Sky'...
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0 Comments on this postLast week our team from Westminster Council (officers and councillors alike) visited the Olympic Park in Stratford. We were lucky enough to be taken around by Paul Deighton (Chief Exec, LOCOG) and David Higgins (Chief Exec, ODA). Their enthusiasm for Europe's biggest construction project was infectious and seeing the changes in terms of the buildings and venues was amazing from our last visit to Holden Point over two years ago.
What really struck us, though, was quite how much the 2012 Games can make a difference. Local communities in East London boroughs are...
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Heather Fell, Team GB modern pentathlete, 15 February 2010
I've been enjoying the snow here in Britain (though it made training slightly trickier this week!), but of course all the real winter action is now fully underway in Vancouver, at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. It was fantastic watching Lee-Steve Jackson compete in the Biathlon events for Team GB yesterday evening – he achieved his personal best and, by being placed 55th, made Olympic history when he became the first British biathlete to qualify for the 12.km.
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0 Comments on this postLondon 2012 is big on ambition. And some of the ambitions are big, too – like the regeneration of the East End of London, inspiring the youth of the world to choose sport, or creating a cultural celebration like never before.
Then again, some of the ambitions are small, personal, and perhaps even trivial. The one I realised very early this morning is firmly in the latter category. Indeed, the ambition was, until now, entirely private and confidential.
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Seb Coe, LOCOG Chair, 12 February 2010
There are moments in life when you are reminded why you are doing what you are doing. For me, today was one of those moments.
Sitting on the bus with 20 fellow torchbearers and listening to their amazing stories was such an inspiration.
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2 Comments on this postI am in Vancouver with a small team from London 2012 to observe the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. This is the last Games before London 2012 and therefore our final opportunity to learn as much as we can to help with our own planning.
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Uzma, Marketing Assistant, 12 February 2010
This week I spotted this great photo on the webcams which shows the Velodrome at night. Lit up, you can almost imagine what the atmosphere will be like during the London 2012 Games.
The Velodrome at night
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Jonathan Edwards, London 2012 Board member, 10 February 2010
As part of my work with London 2012 I have the pleasure of getting out and about, finding out how the Games are really inspiring the UK – not least with the Inspire programme. I was recently at the Houses of Parliament to celebrate a milestone for an Inspire mark project, 'Street Games Legacy Leaders'. They were celebrating three years of delivering 'Doorstep Sport', reaching one million young people in deprived communities across the UK.
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1 Comments on this postWith over 7,000 people working on the Olympic Park, the prospect of feeding them is a mammoth task in its own right. Millions of cooked breakfasts, hearty lunches and who knows how many cups of the traditional builder's tea will be served between now and 2012.
London 2012 has set ambitious standards to make the Games the most sustainable ever. With so many mouths to feed these standards are being supported on the Olympic Park with caterers of all shapes and sizes working towards common goals around sourcing sustainable food.
Canteen menu showing fruit in season used to make muffins.
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