Thursday 28 July 2011

Victoria Pendleton has London Olympic rings

Only 365 days to go, the formalities that are easy for Victoria Pendleton.

In 2012 the London close, taking three Olympic gold medals, Buckingham Palace, to Damm called Vicki, tie the knot with fiancé Scott Gardner and live happily ever after. What could possibly go wrong?

“Holy Moly,” gulped Pendleton. “Can I have that in writing as a guarantee? If only life was that simple, if only everyone understood how much strategic planning, training, preparation and pain goes into an Olympic cyclist’s programme.

“As an athlete, the greatest pressure to succeed comes from within – but you also have to maintain a sense of perspective.

“You can’t be expected to break your personal best, or world records, every time you hop on a bike, that consistency of performance is simply not possible. Not many competitors, in any sport, can go out and be the best at what they do week after week after week.

“But, unfortunately, some of us are judged on what we have achieved in the past and are expected to live up to it.”

Queen Victoria Regal's presence in the velodrome, but it is expected that under load. Pendleton sprints to Olympic title in Beijing, the currency has become a valuable sports, she is now home to the London Olympics is expected to bring billions.

Pendleton, 30, London 2012 after the death bicycle pump and is desperate to bow out on a winning note.

But she is filled with self doubt, and that golden smile back on the podium, it's the same story three years ago in China.

She said: “I’d be lying if I said I never had any doubt about winning my gold medal in Beijing.

“For a week I spent a lot of time on my own in the athletes’ village, and when I saw everyone else winning their races I thought, ‘Oh no, I’ve got to do it now – I can’t let the side down.’

“Thank the Lord I won, and I was able to be part of the gang, to feel part of the team.

“Years earlier, when I had started training with the elite squad, among the likes of Chris Hoy, Jason Queally and Jamie Staff, I was just an insignificant kid who was desperate to be part of their crowd.

“I worried about letting the side down if I had come a cropper in Beijing, and I don’t want to mess it up next year because there will be no second chances. The Olympics Games won’t be coming back here in my lifetime.”

Sunday 17 July 2011

Secure a ticket for next year's Olympics Games in London


A 82-year-old man who traveled to the Olympics since the 1960's has been left heartbroken after failing to secure a ticket for next year's Games in London.

Denis Clayton, from Cheshire, 1960 Games in Rome after the world's largest sporting event ever to participate in the dedication he has shown incredible.

But the world's best players after traveling the world to see, he London in 2012 now that he is denied the opportunity to participate.

Dennis has 1.8 million people worldwide entered in the first ballot application for £ 400 a ticket, but left disappointed. In the second ballot to secure tickets were similarly unfruitful.

He told the Sunday Mirror, “I’ve travelled the world to get to other Games".

"In the old days you could turn up a couple of weeks before and get tickets. Now, when the Games are down the road, I can’t get a seat for a single event.

"At my age these Olympics might well be my last.”

Trans-Siberian Express Dennis, a Russian cargo boat trip through the Tokyo Games in 1964. Meanwhile, the 1968 Games in Mexico for a week's trip to see an Inca tribe to live with, acccording to the newspaper.

He added of his failure to secure a ticket for London 2012: “It’s all about money and who you are. It’s so sad.”

Tuesday 12 July 2011

London Olympics terror threat level to severe for at the national level

For next year's London Olympics terror threat level to severe for at the national level has remained unchanged despite, Sport and Olympics minister Hugh Robertson said on Tuesday.

Wimbledon Championship

He told reporters at a British Olympic Association (BOA) presentation, "All our security planning is done on the assumption that the threat level will be severe, and that will not change".

"Clearly it's good for us, I'm delighted that the threat level is less than that but we carry on...it's an old military thing, you plan for the worst case scenario."

Robertson, Olympic Park under construction along the new Westfield Shopping Centre in East London address, said that no particular threat targeted at the Games had been identified.

Interior Minister Theresa May said on Monday that International terrorist threat level to the third-highest level has been reduced.

Olympics, starting in July next year, Britain's biggest security operation of law are likely.

The 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympics when 11 Israeli team members held hostage by Palestinian gunmen died after being compatible with.

The Government has set aside £ 600 million for the Games, although around 500 million under the budget is expected.

Friday 8 July 2011

Hugh Robertson at the 2017 World Athletics Championships for London Olympic Stadium

The sports minister, Hugh Robertson at the 2017 World Athletics Championships to suspect that the London Olympic Stadium in a bid to go ahead because of the uncertainty is cast.

Leeds Festival

Robertson said the current legal use of the stadium after the 2012 Games bid is threatening the conflict.

Tottenham's decision to award West ham stadium court to review the legal battle has begun.

An independent
investigation has been started in last weekend newspaper allegations
that an executive working for the Olympic Park Legacy Company.

Robertson said, "We can't bid for a World Athletics Championships until the stadium is secure. There is the judicial review and the events of last weekend. As far as the events of last weekend are concerned they [the OPLC] have initiated an independent investigation and actually we are told that nothing that may have happened there has any impact on the stadium decision at all.

"But that will be flushed out by the independent investigation. As far as the stadium is concerned itself I would rather this judicial review was not happening. Clearly the initial hearing went in our favour but now Tottenham have appealed that.

"We will wait to see what happens with that, but until that decision is through the stadium legacy is not secure. The fact is that everyone involved in athletics will understand why we cannot bid for World Championships again until we have an absolute lock-down secure venue."

London 2015 stadium on the uncertainty due to drop a bid for the event and may now be forced to do it again.

Doha
in Qatar to stage 2017 World Championships in Budapest and an as yet unidentified favorite Spanish city's bidding process.

Olympics ticket sales system Meanwhile, London 2012 Chairman, Sebastian Coe has claimed, critics have failed to produce any meaningful alternative.

Coe, in Durban for the International Olympic Committee session, told the Evening Standard: "Journalists have dipped into the Olympic story in an indiscriminate and ad hoc way and have chosen not to understand the complexity of the problem. It's a fairly easy story if you want to write about it superficially.

"I haven't read any coherent observations on how to do things differently. When I put it to the journalists we have sensible conversation about the level of disappointment – but when we talk about how the process could have been done any better they shuffle off."