Britain's David Florence continued his strong pre-Olympics form by winning a C1 silver medal at the Canoe Slalom World Cup event in Seu D'Urgell, Spain.
"You can't just separate packages of life and say 'that's somehow different.' Canary Wharf, the City of London, and the Olympics, they form a triangle with unbelievable amounts money poured into them.
Over 30 large panels showing some of Britain's top athletes involved in the highly anticipated London 2012 Olympics will form an outdoor exhibition in Cardiff next month.
Other notable city parks include Centennial Olympic Park, a legacy of the 1996 Summer Olympics that forms the centerpiece of the city's tourist district; Woodruff Park, which anchors the campus of Georgia State University; Grant Park, home to both Zoo Atlanta and the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum; and Chastain Park, which houses an amphitheater used for live music concerts.
Some groups, like Athlete Ally and All Out, are asking participants instead to voice their support for the sixth principle of the charter, which prohibits discrimination of any kind in the Olympics, as a form of protest that does not expressly mention gay rights.
It was 47 golden minutes that made London's Olympics and will form the basis of a concerted campaign to force the government to place sport at the heart of its education and health policies and protect funding and facilities.
While there have been numerous campaigns to add a fifth star to the flag (to honour everything from Chicago's role in the creation of the atomic bomb to its place in the history of the Special Olympics), its current form has remained unchanged since 1939.
Since I only have Netflix, I guess I'll just have to continue my X-Files marathon and absorb the Olympics in text form later.
The 22-year-old double Olympic champion also won silver in the 400m at the Worlds and looks to be going into the 2012 Olympics in fine form.
The 23-year-old Scot heads to the Rio Olympics in fine form after racing home in three minutes 57.49 seconds.
Team USA basketball got its first test of the 2012 Olympics in the form of a Lithuanian team that is battle-tested, physically imposing and very, very good.
