2012 Summer Olympics officially open in London
UK monarch Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the early hours of this morning. Some sixty thousand spectators observed sixteen thousand athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) walking into the Olympic Stadium in the British capital. London is thus far the only city to host the Olympics for […]
Read More →London Olympics organizers apologize after North Korea flag gaffe
London 2012 Summer Olympics organizers apologized to the North Korean women’s football team after mistakenly displaying South Korea‘s flag alongside competitors’ images during team introductions before a match featuring North Korea and Colombia at the Hampden Park venue Wednesday night. The North Korean women walked off the field, delaying the match for over an hour […]
Read More →London 2012: Lesotho’s athletes hope Olympics will put kingdom on the map They’re unlikely to win any medals but Lesotho’s tiny team are happy just to compete – and maybe make their country proud
At this time of year a chill wind chases through the snow-crowned mountains of Lesotho. The plains below are a medley of browns and yellows where the setting sun casts long shadows. Wrapped against the winter cold in traditional Basotho blankets, some workers still journey by donkey and toil the land by hand. This is an […]
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