Articles tagged “olympics”

Proud cities keep their Olympic stadiums in top shape decades after the games end allowing visitors to swim, skate, or run the same grounds as gold medalists and offering tours with historic insights surrounding the events.

This will be the first Olympics of the Twitter era. Fingers crossed that participants will tweet their accomplishments rather than create a trail of regretful boasts or sore winning.

Oh the pageantry of the games, the patriotism, the thrill of competition, and the almost infinite possibilities of hooking up, thanks to a location-aware dating app.

Although the strike is rather despicable and opportunist, perhaps next time around Sec. Hunt should spend more time crafting wise policy than texting New Corp. executives to tell them he's eager to do their bidding.

David Cameron's government has given the unions plenty of reasons to play hardball, unwisely and cynically hoping he could use the Olympics to force through measures they despise. Now it's backfiring on him.

It's relatively hard to justify sticking a team of poor performers in business and the World Cup champions in coach, but the Olympics provide plenty of opportunities for countries to show both their best and worst sides.

The awkwardly named LOCOG enforcement group is strictly enforcing the banned list of behaviors in relation to the Olympics games, even if the infractions are the work of well-connected royals-in-law.

The idea of a brand police spreading across London wearing purple caps and slapping fines on merchants who are too enthusiastic about selling something to a tourist would be a scene in a British comedy if it hadn't already turned into a farce.

The hotel is being overly defensive about mentions of its Ministry of Defence guests, and TripAdvisor is correct in not censoring the review-writer. After all, according to the article, the hotel has written openly in the past about special rates for ministry employees so it's no secret.

The good news is that the union threatening to strike only represents half of the border workers. The bad news is that the other half won't be able to get to work because the train drivers are striking too.