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‘I’m so proud to be representing my country at an event like this’
4:10pm Friday 17th February 2012
A WYCOMBE pharmacist will be partly responsible for making sure our Bucks rowers are in the best shape possible come London 2012, after being chosen as a gamesmaker based at Dorney Lake for the Olympics.
Sanders: I can be the athlete I was in 2007
11:00am Friday 17th February 2012
NICOLA Sanders insists she can re-discover her 2007 form despite resigning herself to missing out on a chance of individual glory at next month’s World Indoor Championships.
Hype and glory as clocks ticks to 2012
3:38pm Thursday 9th February 2012
MIDNIGHT on December 31 would have carried extra significance for elite athletes around the world – it must have been almost impossible not to feel a renewed sense of purpose when the year clicked to 2012.
Grainger can be Marlow's X Factor winner
2:40pm Monday 6th February 2012
IF it's the X factor that can turn multiple world champion Katherine Grainger from a three-time Olympic silver medalist into a Games winner, then she believes she has it now going into London 2012.
Hart of the Games: Charity worker gets 2012 ticket
10:10am Saturday 4th February 2012
A CHALFONT St Giles charity worker Lesley Hart is used to directing her own productions but she will admire the work of others this summer after winning tickets to the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony.
- In 2012, London will become the first city to host the Olympics three times.
- The Olympics were last held in London in 1948, and were known as 'Games of the XIV Olympiad'
- The swimming events were first held undercover at the previous London Olympics.
- Croydon resident Dorothy Tyler won a silver medal in the high jump at the 1948 games.
- In 1948 Great Britain won just 3 gold medals - despite having more participants than any other country.
- The total cost for the Olympic Games and the regeneration of east London has been estimated at over £9 billion.
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