How do you top 2008?
Very soon, the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing will become the first to stage Opening Ceremonies for both Summer and Winter Games. Although director Zhang Yimou has promised that the Olympic cauldron will be lit in “unprecedented” fashion, many will wonder whether it will prove possible to outdo 2008. […]
The long and the short of the Olympic Torch Relay
1,200 bearers are expected to carry the Olympic flame this week as it makes its way to the Bird’s Nest Stadium for the 2022 Opening Ceremony. It will present quite a contrast with the epic Beijing 2008 Relay which lasted 138 days. Even for the Winter Games, recent Relays have been a colossal […]
Beijing – the last time
When Beijing last played Olympic host 14 years ago, the Games were staged in colossal style. They had been chosen as host city at the 2001 IOC session in Moscow. It was the last major announcement by then IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. The IOC concluded that the Games were “by almost every measure, an […]
Wembley Stadium Centennial
On January 10th 1922, construction began on what was to become one of the most famous sporting arenas in the world at Wembley in North London. The official ‘Court Circular’ records how Prince Albert, Duke of York, (later King George VI) “inaugurated the building […]
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