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Women campaigners demand sex equality at the Olympics

July 26, 2012 0

A file picture taken on August 1, 1948, shows medalists of the 1948 London Olympics Women's discus event, Frances's Micheline Ostermeyer, (C) compatriot Jacqueline Mazcas (R) and Italy's Gentile Cordiale (L). (AFP PHOTO /INTERCONTINENTALE/FILES)

LONDON: Women’s rights campaigners called on Wednesday for an end to sex discrimination at the Olympics, urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ensure there are equal numbers of sports and medals for men and women. Representatives from various European women’s groups met in London for a symbolic burial of the Olympic Charter, saying its principles of condoning any form …

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South Korea, Mexico open Group B with 0-0 draw

July 26, 2012 0

Mexico's Oribe Peralta, center, is tackled during the 2012 Olympic men's football match between Mexico and South Korea at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north-east England on July 26, 2012. AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS

NEWCASTLE, England: South Korea wasted a number of scoring chances against Mexico as the two teams opened Group B at the Olympics with a 0-0 draw Thursday. With forward Giovani Dos Santos on the bench from the start, Mexico showed little promise of being a medal contender as its opponent dominated at St. James Park. Both teams struggled to find their rhythm on the slippery turf, …

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Games open with football, Bolt says “this is my time”

July 25, 2012 0

Games open with football, Bolt says "this is my time"

LONDON: The Olympics kick off on Wednesday with a women’s football match between Britain and New Zealand in Cardiff, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, hero of the Beijing Games and the fastest man on earth, vowed to win again, declaring: “This is my time”. The match in the Welsh capital comes two days before Friday’s opening ceremony at the main …

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Greek athlete kicked out of Games for racist tweet

July 25, 2012 0

Greece's Voula Papachristou lands in the sand after her jump at the Women's Triple Jump final at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, in this file photo dated Friday, June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

ATHENS: Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou was kicked out of the Olympics on Wednesday for a racist tweet which poked fun at Africans living in the country. The 23-year-old Papachristou had written that “with so many Africans in Greece, at least the mosquitoes of West Nile will eat homemade food”. Although she subsequently deleted the message after a huge public …

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Olympics: British border guards call off pre-Games strike

July 25, 2012 0

Former England striker Michael Owen poses with the Olympic Torch at Battersea dogs home in London, July 23, 2012. ( REUTERS/Ki Price)

LONDON: British border officials called off Wednesday a strike planned for the eve of the London Olympics, but travel woes still stalked the event as special lanes for Games traffic caused tailbacks. Organizers said the British capital was “moving well” despite the opening of the widely-disliked Olympic road lanes for the first time and a fresh outbreak of problems with …

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London Olympics mascots: menacing or magic?

July 23, 2012 0

In a July 17, 2012 file photo a tourist poses for a photo next to a newly unveiled statue of Wenlock, one of the Olympic Games 2012 mascots, in London. (AP Photo/Cassandra Vinograd/file)

LONDON: Sinister. Disturbing. Creepy. Frightening. The official mascots of London’s Olympic and Paralympic Games – Wenlock and Mandeville – have been called all of those things, but organizers are hoping to tack on a more positive title: merchandising magic. The futuristic-looking pair have popped up all over London, casting their one-eyed gaze at tourists and locals alike from posters, statues and a …

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London prostitutes ‘cleaned from the streets’

July 23, 2012 0

London prostitutes 'cleaned from the streets'

LONDON: The London Olympics are not big business for everyone — sex workers say they are being cleared from the streets around the stadium to make the area more presentable for the Games. While Britain’s limp economy hopes for an Olympic boost, police in Newham, the deprived east London borough that is home to the stadium, have closed some 80 …

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Olympics: Forty years on, ghosts of Munich hang over Rogge

July 22, 2012 0

President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge attends a news conference at the Main Press Centre at the Olympic Park in Stratford, London, July 21, 2012. REUTERS/Neil Hall (BRITAIN - Tags: SPORT OLYMPICS)

LONDON: The massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics had Jacques Rogge the athlete fighting with his conscience over whether to carry on competing or not. Now, 40 years later, the 70-year-old International Olympic Committee president is enduring similar soul-searching. This time it is over whether or not to agree to a minute’s silence at …

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August 27, 2025 0

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