London 2012 Olympics

London 2012 Olympics: Nothing Else Matters?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ViLiXA0E70&w=560&h=315] This is scary. Completely unbidden, my iTunes library has started playing “Nothing Else Matters” as I sat down to blog about the second week of the London 2012 Olympics. Lissie’s cover version of Metallica’s 20-year-old power ballad fits… Continue Reading →

2012/08/09

Olympic Tennis: Designed to Inspire

Does the Olympics really need tennis? Until my visit to the All England Club yesterday, I’m one of those who would have questioned the point of holding an attenuated version of the world’s greatest tennis tournament so soon after Wimbledon… Continue Reading →

2012/08/02

Poolside Double Act Stars at London 2012

For years the BBC’s voice of swimming was the unfortunately named Hamilton Bland, whose TV career ended in controversy in the late 90s. There’s nothing bland about his successors, former Olympians Adrian Moorhouse and Andy Jameson, who sounded as though… Continue Reading →

2012/07/30

Step Outside Guides: Lions, Loos and London on the Cheap

Step Outside Guide The London Treasure Trail

Don’t ask about the app. I wasn’t the first person to enquire whether Step Outside Guides would be coming soon to the iTunes Store. But it turns out that co-creator Margie Skinner has problems just navigating her way around an… Continue Reading →

2012/05/13

Twenty Twelve: Comedy without the Laughs

Earlier this week a news report claimed that LOCOG has “barely put a foot wrong” in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics. If you’re one of the thousands who lost out in the Great Ticketing Fiasco of 2011, you… Continue Reading →

2012/04/22

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