Boris does Flag Fan Dangle Thing
Perfect casting for being hoist by his own petard. It's not everybody has their own Petard. The rich fat bastards have all the fun. That's not raw talent you know. They have the breeding you see. And...
View ArticleLondon Plays Games - Podcast
"Mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, have often been described as a preferred tool of place promotion and marketing and a primary connection between the local and the global. The Olympics are a...
View ArticleDelivering Mass Sports Programmes
Promises, promises"There's a direct link between elite success and participation in sport”David Cameron 12 Aug 2012 read more
View ArticleA legacy of 'no clemency, no kindness'
It's just another very small, very local Olympics legacy story about an Olympic bridge, a second Olympic bridge, across the Hackney Cut canal. The other, the first bridge crossed the canal from the...
View ArticleSporting myths, winning and national pride
Forget about the importance of taking part. Rory McIlroy is in an uncomfortable position, on the horns of a dilemma. Should he play golf at Rio 2016 for the UK, apparently his preference, or Ireland?...
View ArticleThe sporting legacy - Inspired to watch
As has already been announced the elite annual London Grand Prix Diamond League meeting will be moved from Crystal Palace to the Olympic Stadium. To this was added an elite Paralympic event.read more
View ArticleHeroes or scroungers?
‘I think the Vitality programme is absolutely brilliant – everything I stand for is echoed in the values of Vitality.’ These are the inane words of Olympic heroine Jessica Ennis, now earning a fast...
View ArticleSome Shortcomings of Olympic success
In a house in the London suburb of Ealing, hired for the occasion by a film company, an actor playing the part of an average guy, is checking in a mirror how he looks in his recently bought shirt. Out...
View ArticleAnother fine Olympic Legacy - Justice for Bolt!
Usain Bolt is to get £500,000 for appearing at this summer's Olympics Anniversary event. Up till now Bolt has been the victim of 'punitive' tax laws which have prevented him earning these absurd sums...
View ArticleA Bankrupt Field of Dreams
The fraught disputes over how best to recoup the high construction and maintenance costs of the London Olympic stadium conform to a pattern previously seen elsewhere in England and abroad. The story of...
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They didn't blame it on the snowboarder
Norwegian snowboarding medal hope Torstein Horgmo has been ruled out of Sochi2014 after breaking his collar bone in an accident on the slopestyle course.read more
View ArticleBrits in Controversy at Sochi2014
At least some people know what really matters. Amidst all the controversy over LGBT rightread more
View ArticleParking the legacy
Fancy a swim at the Aquatic Centre with your kids? Need to use the car park? Better be sure in that case you’ve got cash to feed the machine because it won’t accept a card.Friends took their two...
View ArticleLearning from London: The other side of the Olympics - a film from Hamburg
A film by Hamburg filmmaker Marlene Wynants on the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics - in English with German subtitlesread more
View ArticleLondon Legacy Seminars - don't expect critical thinking
This is the lineup for a panel to discuss the London2012 sports legacy for the London Legacies Group Seminar entitled: 'Has the Sports Legacy from the 2012 lived up to the commitments made?' Every...
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Barbaric Sport - a Global Plague by Marc Perelman
Barbaric Sport by Marc Perelmanread more
View ArticleThe Aftermath - of the London2012 stadium
After putting up heroic resistance in the public interest the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) finally gave in and published the details of the contract with West Ham for the London...
View ArticleOlympics Stadium Agreement between London Legacy Development Corporation...
Below is a link for a copy of the agreement between the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) and West Ham regarding the London Olympic stadium referred to as the E20 Stadium, which was released...
View ArticlePyeongchang2018 Olympics at the heart of South Korean corruption scandal
By Julian Cheyne and Rebecca Kim - Researcher at the Democracy & Social Movement Institute, SungkongHoe University, SeoulAgainst the background of the all consuming scandal which has engulfed South...
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