Shorts not skirts, say women boxers
LONDON - Competitors in the first Olympic women's boxing tournament next year should not be forced to wear skirts, a member of the British team said on Wednesday.
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Olympics, elections and horsing around in odd 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - Presidential preening, golden Olympic gaffes, a royal windfall for a skydiving British queen on her diamond jubilee and the endless end of days marked the odd stories in 2012 which...
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Team GB Olympic cycling success: French blame British secrecy
The success of Team GB’s cyclists at the London 2012 Olympics just keeps biking on, and on with Sir Chris Hoy’s latest gold medal making him the most successful British Olympian ever, but the French suspect some Johnny English shenanigans!
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Sun May Be Setting on Australia Swim Empire
Decades after Australia formally left the fading British Empire, the Aussies are in London helplessly watching an empire of their own crumble—in an Olympic swimming pool.
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Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips earns Olympic silver
With a royal group cheering her on, Zara Phillips won an Olympic equestrian silver medal with the British team today at the London Games.
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'God Save the Queen' Is Too English for Britain
The opening four days of the Olympic Games have witnessed an outburst of warm, fuzzy patriotism in London. But one group of athletes hasn't exactly tuned into the new mood of national pride: The British soccer team.
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