http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/ The Latest London 2012 News, from 2012 Tickets to 2012 accommodation. Get the latest on the 2012 Olympic Games on our independent 2012 olympics forum en Sat, 19 May 2012 14:24:56 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/images/vb4style-blu/misc/rss.png http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/ http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1968-Found-A-Good-Travel-Tool&goto=newpost Sat, 19 May 2012 12:36:47 GMT Found a handy travel tool for when you're in London and the vicinity -

www.ys.tel has the local directories and more.

Pretty cool, wanted to share.

:cool: ]]> London 2012 Travel GoldMedalsUSA http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1968-Found-A-Good-Travel-Tool http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1962-Olympics-2012-Android-App&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 13:05:47 GMT Hi guys, You might be interested in few Olympics 2012 android app we created: Olympics 2012 Schedule:... Hi guys,

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Thanks! ]]> The wall? sportsfan http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1962-Olympics-2012-Android-App http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1961-Is-Tom-Daley-Ready-For-London-2012&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 12:07:44 GMT Alexei Evangulov, the Russian performance director of British Diving who publicly criticised Tom Daley for taking on too much media work in the... Alexei Evangulov, the Russian performance director of British Diving who publicly criticised Tom Daley for taking on too much media work in the run-up to the Olympics, says the teenager’s brilliant recent form has “scared” his Chinese rivals.
Tom Daley - London 2012 Olympics: Alexei Evangulov believes that Team GB diver Tom Daley is 'scaring' rivals

Daley, who turns 18 in a week’s time, won the four-event World Series crown with a lifetime-best score in the final round in Mexico last month and will be the favourite to add to his collection of titles when he competes at the European Championships in Eindhoven, which begin on Tuesday.

His resurgent form is in stark contrast to his disappointing showing at the World Cup in London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre in February when he and partner Pete Waterfield finished a lacklustre seventh in the synchro final, and Evangulov believes Daley is now back in the “medal range” for this summer’s Games.

“Everything is going according to plan,” said Evangulov. “Thomas was not quite ready for the World Cup. He lacked a couple of weeks to be better prepared.

“But after the World Cup, the World Series went perfectly. In all four events he showed he is ready to fight for a medal at the Olympics. He scared the Chinese dramatically.”

Before the World Cup, Evangulov went public with his fears that Daley’s media commitments were harming his medal prospects, likening him to former celebrity tennis player Anna Kornikova and claiming his Chinese rivals “trained three times harder”.

But he refuses to take any credit for Daley’s recent improvement and says the media coverage of his remarks was overblown.

“Frankly speaking, I didn’t like the media reaction,” he said. “That is why I don’t want to talk about it any more. We are in an absolutely new situation now and we have to forget about that.

“All the divers were very irritated by the media reaction and we were not thankful it. What I said was just normal stuff. You can say that it is my role to criticise. I am very demanding and people appreciate it because that’s why I am here. British Swimming invited me to be very strong and to be very demanding.”

Daley, who the European title as a 14 year-old in the same Eindhoven pool, will be competing in only the individual platform event in Holland and not the synchro because Waterfield has a neck problem and has been withdrawn from as a precaution.

The Plymouth diver will hoping for a repeat of his World Series triumph in Tijuana, Mexico, three weeks ago where his best ever points total of 562.85 included a massive score of 105 for his most difficult dive – the front 4½ somersaults.

Significantly, though, reigning world champion Qiu Bo, of China, was absent from Mexico and remains the overwhelming favourite for Olympic gold in London. ]]> London 2012 Diving goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1961-Is-Tom-Daley-Ready-For-London-2012 http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1960-Eiffel-Tower-or-Just-Awful-Tower-The-2012-Olympic-Tower&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:46 GMT On an overcast day in London, the city’s mayor, the chief executive officer of the world’s biggest steelmaker ArcelorMittal (MT), and artist Anish... On an overcast day in London, the city’s mayor, the chief executive officer of the world’s biggest steelmaker ArcelorMittal (MT), and artist Anish Kapoor congregate at the top of the U.K.’s tallest sculpture.

They’re inaugurating the ArcelorMittal Orbit: a spiraling 114.5-meter (376 foot) lattice of dark-red tubular steel designed by Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond. The first view, even on a cloudy morning, stretches from the London 2012 Olympic Park across to the towers of Canary Wharf and of the City financial district.

Taller than the Statue of Liberty and Big Ben, twice as high as Nelson’s column in London’s Trafalgar Square, the Orbit has cost 22.7 million pounds ($36.5 million), of which ArcelorMittal funded as much as 19.6 million pounds. Elevators take reporters to a circular viewing platform at the top. The structure has drawn mixed reviews for its twisted contours. It is a third of the size of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

“For ArcelorMittal, it clearly shows that we can demonstrate how the steel can be used,” says Lakshmi Mittal, whose company employs 260,000 people. “We have got the steel from every steel manufacturing unit of ours, so every employee feels they have participated in the London Olympics and Paralympics.”

“ArcelorMittal would not have sponsored it if it was not made of steel,” he says.
Davos Cloakroom

Moments later, Mittal joins Mayor Boris Johnson on the balcony, a wrap-around walkway of steel mesh, for a combined video interview. The two recall meeting in 2009 in the cloakroom of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the mayor buttonholed the billionaire.

“Lakshmi and I were both getting our coat back,” says Johnson, as Mittal stands smiling beside him, briefly resting a hand on his shoulder. “In the space of 45 seconds, Lakshmi agreed to fund the project: He said I will give you the steel.”

Did the mayor know the sculpture would be made of steel? “I didn’t,” says Johnson, “but I saw Lakshmi Mittal in the cloakroom, and I thought that steel would be a useful thing to have.”

Mittal says the idea, at first, was for him to “participate in a modest way” and “supply some steel” to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“I never dreamt that this project will become such a large project,” he says. “Boris was so smart, getting me into this discussion and forcing me to make such a big piece of art.”
Eiffel Horror

Earlier, Kapoor and Balmond present the landmark to reporters in a nearby hotel. Balmond says steel was not chosen because of Mittal’s sponsorship offer: It was the most workable material to create a tower that, rather than rest on four legs like the Eiffel Tower, was supported by orbiting around itself. Concrete would not have worked, he says.

Kapoor downplays the controversy around the tower’s look. He says he has researched initial reactions to the Eiffel Tower, and recalls the horror of observers such as author Victor Hugo.

“I think it’s awkward: It has its elbows sticking out, in a way,” says Kapoor. “It refuses to be an emblem.”

“I wanted us to make a work that’s really about experience,” he says. “It’s about going in, going up, being part of.”

To put his mark on a tower that otherwise looks like a feat of engineering, Kapoor has made it red -- a color he uses a lot -- and built a rust-colored steel canopy shaped like an upside- down cone that visitors have to stand underneath before going up the tower. The experience is meant as “a moment of darkness, of weight, perhaps even a little scary,” he explains. ]]> London 2012 Venues goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1960-Eiffel-Tower-or-Just-Awful-Tower-The-2012-Olympic-Tower http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1959-Team-GB-wins-4-gold-medals-in-Judo-Europeans&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 12:03:15 GMT Great Britain collected an impressive four gold medals on the first day of the British Open European Cup at K2 Crawley - the last competition before... Great Britain collected an impressive four gold medals on the first day of the British Open European Cup at K2 Crawley - the last competition before Team GB Olympic selection.

On Saturday Gemma Howell won an all-British final against Faith Pitman in the 163kg category, Ashley McKenzie sealed a fourth British Open title with victory in the -60kg class, Sally Conway won the -70kg and Gemma Gibbons topped the -78kg.

Elsewhere there was bronze for Karina Bryant, who came through the repechage in the +78kg competition, while Jan Gosiewski also took the final place on the rostrum in -73kg.

After claiming his gold with five wins, McKenzie said: "I had a lot of support today, I love competing domestically and being a London boy I hope I can be selected for the Olympic Games and count on the home support backing me all the way." ]]> London 2012 Judo goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1959-Team-GB-wins-4-gold-medals-in-Judo-Europeans http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1958-Sudden-Athlete-Deaths&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 12:01:29 GMT When London marathon ******* director Sanjay Sharma was called to attend someone who had collapsed with suspected cardiac arrest a mile from the... When London marathon ******* director Sanjay Sharma was called to attend someone who had collapsed with suspected cardiac arrest a mile from the finish line last month, he expected to find a man in his seventies.

"I had to hide my horror as I saw a young, athletic woman," he says. "I had to... compose myself for a few seconds before we started resuscitation."

Lying on the ground was 30-year-old Claire Squires, whose sudden death, along with those of Italian footballer Piermario Morosini and Norwegian Olympic swimmer Alexander Dale Oen, has drawn fresh attention to shocking heart problems that bring down young, fit people at the top of their game.

The case of English Premier League footballer Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed on the pitch in front of a stadium packed with spectators last month, has similarly focused minds.

Sharma, who was speaking at a sports science conference in London ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games when an estimated 10,000 athletes will be pushing themselves to the limit in the British capital, urged health professionals to be vigilant.

"Something should be done, if we are... encouraging athletes to push themselves like that," he said. "We protect their musculoskeletal system, we protect their brains, we protect their nutritional status, so why can't we protect their hearts?"

In sudden cardiac death (SCD), the heart abruptly and unexpectedly stops working. Experts describe it as an "electrical problem", often caused by a heart rhythm disorder called ventricular fibrillation.

In sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which was what brought Bolton Wanderers midfielder Muamba to the ground, the heart is no longer able to pump ***** to the rest of the body.

Fortunately, Muamba recovered but, says University College London sports scientist Richard Weiler, cases like his are likely to continue to crop up despite some screening programs and the main problem is they are still poorly understood.

"Each young athletic life lost to SCD or blighted by a sudden cardiac arrest is a powerful reminder that despite our growing knowledge, we still lack many answers to basic questions about these afflictions," Weiler and a team of other sports science experts wrote in the British Journal of Sports ******** (BJSM) on Saturday. ]]> Challenging London 2012? goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1958-Sudden-Athlete-Deaths http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1957-USA-Womens-Basketball-Team-Gets-Ready-For-London-2012&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 11:59:56 GMT It was a whirlwind few days for Geno Auriemma and the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team. Now they’ll go their separate ways until reconvening... It was a whirlwind few days for Geno Auriemma and the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team.

Now they’ll go their separate ways until reconvening July 14 to start training again for the London Games.

“It went by fast,” Auriemma said. “Hopefully coming out of this weekend the players have a better expectation of what I’m looking for from them. Now we’ll see how much they improve over the next two months while they are playing in the WNBA and then we’ll really get started in July.”

The weekend started with a 1½-hour practice on Friday night and concluded with a scrimmage against Japan on Sunday. Sandwiched in between was a 38-point rout of China in an exhibition game.

“The exciting part about it is it’s the beginning,” three-time Olympian Tamika Catchings said. “This is the first time this 12-player roster has been together practicing then to play a game against a great Chinese team, and to pull away like we did, every single person on this team brought something different.

“When you look at going to the Olympics and getting to London, that’s something positive. If we can continue to build off of that and continue to get better, that’ll only make what we do in the end that much more memorable.”

Auriemma used the weekend to try out different combinations of players. It seemed for the most part that whoever he had on the court played well.

“We had a big lineup, a small lineup, a fast lineup, we got a lot of different lineups that we can play,” he said. “It was a chance to see who plays well with each other.”

The only lineup that didn’t see time together was the “All-UConn” lineup. Six of the players on the Olympic team played for Auriemma at Connecticut. While Tina Charles didn’t play all weekend because she was rehabbing a groin injury, the other five never were on the court at the same time.

“I have it in my contract that I can only play so many UConn players at the same time,” Auriemma said with a smile. “Seriously, I know pretty well what they can do and they know what to expect from me. There wasn’t a conscious effort to not put them on the floor together.”

The Americans had their way with Japan in the scrimmage on Sunday. They won all four quarters, giving up just four baskets in the first half. The Japanese players seemed more in awe of their American counterparts than being focused on playing basketball.

After the scrimmage, the Japanese players took photos and asked the Americans for autographs. Two even exchanged jerseys with Diana Taurasi and Catchings.

“That happens a lot,” said Taurasi, who was sporting a Japan warm-up jersey.

While his players will head off to the WNBA, Auriemma will spend a little time scouting over the next few months. He’ll make a quick pit stop in Dallas for an U.S. Olympic media summit. He’ll head over to Turkey in late June to watch the women’s tournament that will determine the final five qualifiers for the London games. ]]> London 2012 Basketball goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1957-USA-Womens-Basketball-Team-Gets-Ready-For-London-2012 http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1956-Wallace-Spearmon-aims-for-a-2012-medal&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 11:58:16 GMT Sprinter Wallace Spearmon is used to rehabilitation; he has been treating injuries since 2005.

"It's a never-ending story," Spearmon said Sunday at the Team USA Media Summit.

Spearmon, who starts and ends every day with physical therapy, hopes his story of healing will finally conclude with a medal at the 2012 Olympics this summer in London.

Spearmon pushed through a torn meniscus in 2005, a fractured bone in 2008 and a left Achilles' tendon injury that kept him out much of last year.

"I've been plagued with injuries," Spearmon said. "But I'm coming back into form. I look like myself again."

At the Beijing Games in 2008, Spearmon finished third in the 200 meters but was denied a bronze medal because he stepped out of his lane.

He has been living in Cedar Hill and training with coach Monte Stratton in Arlington, where he clocked 19.95 in the 200 meters on March 24.

"It looks like this year is going to be the best I've had in quite some time health-wise," Spearmon said. "This is the first time I've actually been healthy leading up to the trials. I really have no idea what I'm capable [of]. I just want to go out and have a day where I run without pain, injury free, where I just see how fast I can run."

Spearmon, who will participate in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials from June 22-July 1 in Eugene, Ore., is motivated by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's world record of 19.19 in the 200.

"He opened doors for me," Spearmon said. "That made me realize that I can run faster than I thought I could. The faster someone runs, if you are a true competitor, that just lets you know that you can do it as well."

While Bolt and Spearmon are friends, the two are also rivals.

Spearmon said Bolt and his Jamaican teammates will be hard to beat in London, but the U.S. sprinters aren't intimidated.

"None of us are training for second place," he said. "None of us like to lose." ]]> Aspiring 2012 Athletes goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1956-Wallace-Spearmon-aims-for-a-2012-medal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1955-China-Announces-Olympic-Media-Plans&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 11:54:08 GMT China Network Television (CNTV) in Shanghai announced its new media plan for the London Olympic Games on Friday. The plan, which aims to put the... China Network Television (CNTV) in Shanghai announced its new media plan for the London Olympic Games on Friday.

The plan, which aims to put the network, handsets, mobile TV and the iPad together, will give audiences more access to the games, said Xia Xiaohui, deputy general manager of CNTV.

CNTV, the official Internet and mobile phone broadcaster of the London 2012 Olympic Games, will set up a network platform to serve new media, Xia said.

"By doing so we can let audiences watch sports events at any time and anywhere," he said.

CNTV launched a promotion campaign in the city to let audiences in East China know the plan.

It succeeded in disseminating the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 through the Internet, creating a new channel for audiences to watch the events.

"The move broke the TV monopoly of big sports games," he said.

Jin Xiaoxin, operation director of CNTV Sports, said CNTV will telecast live 5,600 hours of Olympic events including 4,300 hours of events CCTV can't telecast because of its limited channels.

He said CNTV will join hands with CCTV to send more than 500 reporters to cover the event in London.

CNTV has broadcast some special programs on the games in the 100-day countdown to the London Olympic Games to help audiences know more about the event, Jin said. ]]> goldmedal http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1955-China-Announces-Olympic-Media-Plans http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1948-hello-from-India!&goto=newpost Thu, 10 May 2012 07:02:07 GMT hello from India! thought would be a great place to connect with people going to London 2012. neone going to London 2012 for sure? would luv... hello from India!

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neone going to London 2012 for sure? would luv to make friends.. ]]> Introducing Manulondon http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1948-hello-from-India! http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1901-weymouth-accommodation&goto=newpost Wed, 09 May 2012 20:32:54 GMT Hi i have affordable accommodation for the weymouth Olympics. Check our website www.chesilholidaycaravans.co.uk for details. The site is 2 mins... Hi i have affordable accommodation for the weymouth Olympics.
Check our website www.chesilholidaycaravans.co.uk for details. The site is 2 mins from the sailing events. ]]> London 2012 Accommodation chesilholidaycaravan http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1901-weymouth-accommodation http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1900-Opening-of-London2012-Olympic-Stadium-5th-May-2012&goto=newpost Mon, 07 May 2012 16:02:40 GMT I was very fortunate to get tickets for this once in a life time experience...I took this clip..hope you enjoy watching it ... I was very fortunate to get tickets for this once in a life time experience...I took this clip..hope you enjoy watching it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQDnbM6HPlo ]]> London 2012 Olympics News lurchertiger http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1900-Opening-of-London2012-Olympic-Stadium-5th-May-2012 http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1896-Volunteer-travel-to-Dorney-Lake&goto=newpost Wed, 02 May 2012 11:55:02 GMT Is anyone going to have problems getting to Dorney for 6am? Was anyone else frustrated at the lack of help from LOCC as trains will not be running... Is anyone going to have problems getting to Dorney for 6am?
Was anyone else frustrated at the lack of help from LOCC as trains will not be running -:mad: ]]> London 2012 Travel Mr Rower http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1896-Volunteer-travel-to-Dorney-Lake http://www.2012olympicsforum.com/showthread.php?1893-Please-Help-Me&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:03:35 GMT Can you help me out and fill out my questionnaire? It will only take about 5 mins and will help me with my dissertation. It looks to get consumers' views and opinions on the Olympic games and their sponsors. I would greatly appreciate it if you can fill it in for me.
Thank You (sorry if it's in wrong forum)

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