Posted by: Dexter on: May 2, 2012
McDonald’s and Olympics will be partnering again for the ninth time. McDonald restaurant will be the only official branded food chain sponsor to cater Olympic athletes and Olympic spectators. McDonald’s started to be an official sponsor of the Olympic Games in 1976 and has a longstanding commitment to the Olympic Movement. In 2004, McDonald’s announced the continuation of its TOP sponsorship for the next eight consecutive years through the 2012 Games.
McDonald’s plans to break its record and build the world’s largest McDonald’s at the Games site in Stratford, east of London. The two-storey, 3, 000 sq-metre yet to built biggest McDonald’s restaurant will be able to accommodate 1, 500 diners in one seating.
The food chain’s UK chief executive, Jill McDonald, said: "To be involved in the greatest sporting event on earth is hugely exciting … We want everyone who visits our Olympics park restaurants to have the best possible customer experience, and are confident that the look and feel of these cutting-edge designs will provide that environment."
Being a fast-food restaurant, its presence near the Olympic site is bound to attract protests from health-buff and others who feel that London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games should not be associated with unhealthy food brands. In consideration with those ideas, the organizers promise a wide range of food available at the Olympics park, including from local suppliers. But it will have all have to be unbranded, with only official sponsors afforded the right to have their names on the food they sell.
McDonald’s is expected to use the Games to try to highlight its "corporate social responsibility". It has been involved in the recruitment of 70,000 Games volunteers and has pledged re-use of the furniture, refrigeration plants and other equipment in its other UK restaurants after the Olympics.
Posted by: Mhey on: April 13, 2012
After winning the 100 meters final in Seoul in 1988, a reporter asked the Canadian sprinter what was more precious: a world record or the gold medal? Johnson chose the latter. "Why?" the reporter asked. "Because it’s something nobody can take away from you," he replied. "Yes we can, and we will." – London 2012 organizers London 2012 Olympics in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will mark another first in Olympics history. This coming Summer Olympics, a private sponsor, a giant pharmaceutical company, will be providing for the facilities for the scientists to carry out their work in conducting analysis in blood and urine samples of each athlete for Olympics and Paralympics Games. All athletes will do everything they know to get what they want—the Olympic gold medal; extensive training and proper over-all conditioning of their body, mind and spirit. But some athletes are willing to go beyond what they should do, even crossing lines—taking performance-enhancing substances (drugs) to make them very active during the game proper. According to WADA’s director Professional David Howman, the list of banned substances runs to 10-15 pages, with hundreds of drugs currently prohibited (for the list of banned substances from the Olympics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drugs_banned_from_the_Olympics). The $30 million state-of-the-art laboratory in Harlow, Essex is a short distance from the Olympic Park in east London and is fully accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Marion Jones and Ben Johnson are just two examples of champions whose achievements have been removed from the record books due to drug scandals. London 2012 organizers and Professor David Howman, director of King’s College London’s Drug Control Center and chief scientist for the Games, are assuring sports enthusiasts and warning athletes who are planning to do what Jones and Johnson did that competitors who want to run the risk of taking performance-enhancing substances before or during this year’s Summer Olympics will face the most sophisticated anti-doping operation in the history of the Games (for the complete CNN news, http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/12/sport/drugs-london-2012-olympics-laboratory/index.html). More than 6,250 samples of blood and urine will be tested during both the Olympics and Paralympics — four years ago in Beijing that figure was around 4,500 — with around 150 scientists on duty around the clock.
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Ben Johnson streaks away from the field in the 100 meters final at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. The race, his victory and his subsequent disqualification for taking the banned steroid stanozolol was one of the most infamous episodes in Olympic history.
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Marion Jones crosses the line first in the 100m final at the 2000 Olympics. It was one of three golds the American sprinter won in Sydney. In 2007, Jones admitted to taking banned substances and was stripped of her medals. Image Credit : Getty Images
Posted by: Dexter on: April 1, 2012
According to a recent report from ibtimes.co.uk, James Bond, Daniel Craig, the actor who plays Agent 007 in the film franchise for Ian Fleming’s best-selling novel, will open the London 2012 Olympic Games with the queen.
Daniel is reported have their shooting for the next James Bond “Skyfall”. It seems the actor has been invited by the Queen to shoot some sequences of the film in Buckingham Palace, in a bid to promote the 2012 Olympics.
It is even rumored that the Queen herself may have her guest appearance in the film! However, palace officials have not given any details on the score.
Posted by: Dexter on: March 31, 2012

Tamika Catchings will play in her third Olympic Games in 2012
Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images
So to all those basketball enthusiast and are waiting for the list of USA Womens basketball Team, Here is the list of the first 11 Womens Player of USA. The players consist of a trio of two-time Olympic gold medalists, four athletes who have each earned one Olympic gold medal and four newcomers to the Olympic stage. The athletes were selected by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Player Selection Committee, approved by the USA Basketball Board of Directors and are pending final approval by the U.S. Olympic Committee. One slot remains for the eventual 12-member U.S. squad and the final athlete will be selected at a later date.
Named to their third Olympic team
Gold medals awardee at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. Competing in her second Olympics after winning gold in Athens in 2004
Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008
Playing on the Olympic stage for the first time
The well-balanced and talented core of the U.S. squad will compete for the USA’s fifth-consecutive Olympic gold medal in London this summer
Posted by: Dexter on: March 31, 2012
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Here is the Full list of those remarkable people whom will carry the torch on the first day, Saturday 19 May of the Torch relay : list are made in alphabetical order except for the featured Torch Bearers
Day 1 Saturday 19 May – Land’s End to Plymouth
Andy Ferris
Carrying the Flame through: Newquay
Age: 33
Hometown: Newquay
Featured Torchbearer
David Jackson
Carrying the Flame through: Sennen
Age: 61
Hometown: Penzance
Keia Wardman Wardman-trerise
Carrying the Flame through: Newlyn
Age: 12
Hometown: Carbis Bay,st Ives
Featured Torchbearer
Tassy Swallow
Carrying the Flame through: Land’s End
Age: 18
Hometown: St Ives, Cornwall
Featured Torchbearer
Posted by: Dexter on: March 30, 2012
Check out some photos of the London 2012 Olympics Venue , The video will show different venue and art works that was made for the London 2012 Olympics to be held this summer. The video will aslo show different pictures that depicts London’s preparation for the 2012 London Olympics
Posted by: Dexter on: March 30, 2012
Londoners witness feat of British engineering as giant Olympic rings travel down a river. Erin McLaughlin reports.
Check on how the 2012 Olympic rings on the Thames River has been made.
Posted by: Mhey on: March 30, 2012

Understanding people’s demand, there are companies, agencies, lodging institutions that are helping tourists look for the best accommodation they can have during the London 2012 Olympics. Using the technology, these hotels, inns and other lodging companies are reachable through internet. Some of the web-based sites Olympic Games’ spectators can visit are London Rent My house (http://www.londonrentmyhouse.com), iStopOver (http://www.istopover.com/short-term-rentals/london-2012-olympic-accommodation), and Spencer Thomas (http://www.spencerthomas.co.uk/).
Posted by: Dexter on: March 30, 2012
The Coca-Cola Beatbox is something to watch out by visitors coming to London. The Coca-Cola Beatbox is made in a reality by London architects Pernilla & Asif. The visitors inside the Coca-Coal Beatbox could play music and gaze out at the London 2012 Olympic Park.
The red-and-white architecture can actually be played like a musical instrument by interacting with sounds imbedded into the architecture itself.
The design was inspired by Coca-Cola’s ‘Move the Beat’ campaign, which aims to interest teens in the Olympics through a combination of music and sports. Visitors to the pavilion will be able to create their own tunes by remixing sounds that were recorded from various Olympic sports by music producer Mark Ronson.
This will surely be a hit for the teens who will be visiting the London 2012 Olympic Park. This is something to visit in the Olympic Park.
Here is the picture that we took from weburbanist.com:


