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(Reuters) – Olympic 100 metres freestyle champion Alain Bernard failed to qualify for this year’s London Games after finishing fifth in the French championships on Thursday. Yannick Agnel clocked 48.02 seconds, a personal and French best this season, to win ahead of Fabien Gilot, fifth in last year’s world championships, who finished in 48.38 seconds. [...]
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(Reuters) – Five-times Olympic champion Ian Thorpe’s bid to compete at the London Games suffered a major blow on Friday when he failed to make the final of the 200 meters freestyle at Australia’s national swimming trials in Adelaide. Thorpe, who will also compete in the 100 freestyle at the weekend, finished 12th fastest of [...]
(Reuters) – ‘Watch out London – the Americans are coming’ was the message after the U.S. team recorded their best showing at the world indoor championships with 10 gold medals in Istanbul. Men’s team coach John Moon was in buoyant mood as the athletes, fresh from their record success, now turn their attention to the [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS – The Lopez family will return to the Summer Olympics for the USA in taekwondo, but not in full. Steven Lopez qualified for his fourth Olympics on Saturday, and his sister, Diana, qualified for her second. But brother Mark, who won silver at the Beijing Games, lost to Terrence Jennings. “It’s a little [...]
(Reuters) – Companies will try to piggyback this year’s London Olympics to win themselves free advertising, despite some of the strictest rules ever, by upstaging rivals paying millions of pounds to be official sponsors, a survey said on Thursday. Sponsorship spending has soared during the past 20 years, attracting so-called ambushers, companies trying to associate [...]
(Reuters) – Michael Woodford, the ousted Olympus chief executive who blew the whistle on one of Japan’s most high-profile frauds, vowed he would hold his former employer to account as he kicked off his legal battle for wrongful dismissal in London on Thursday. “I found wrongdoing, I raised that wrongdoing and for doing that I [...]
(China’s Yao Ming (13) reacts to a score in the first half of play against New Zealand during their men’s basketball game in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 17, 2004. At left is New Zealand’s Kirk Penney and at right is China’s Yi Jianlian. REUTERS/Adrees Latif) (Reuters) – Yi Jianlian said China’s national basketball [...]
(Reuters) – The chairman of the London 2012 Olympics said on Thursday that the Olympic committee needed to encourage more inclusiveness by countries that failed to send women to the games but cautioned that “sport is not the panacea for all ills.” “I think you can use sport in a way to encourage social change [...]
John Orozco of the USA competes in the Horizontal Bar final during day ten of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo 2011 at Tokyo metropolitan Gymnasium on October 16, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. (October 15, 2011 – Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images AsiaPac) (PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Gymnast John Orozco won the Winter Cup [...]
(Reuters) – The flame for this year’s London Olympics, scheduled to arrive in Britain on May 18, will land at a military base in Cornwall before starting the torch relay that will end with the Games’ opening ceremony on July 27, documents revealed on Wednesday. In the documents seen by Reuters, Games organizers are planning [...]
