Athletics

The rest of the day’s news…

Faster, Higher, Stronger. Athletics embodies the Olympic motto.

We’ve been here before…

Ministers have decided to pull London’s bid for the 2015 World Athletics Championship, little more than two weeks before the winner is announced. The bid, which was announced in March, has been scuppered by ongoing uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Olympic stadium: the rival …

The Olympic Stadium, searching for a ‘legacy’ purpose with all the desperation of an ageing and ineloquent footballer who’s just suffered a serious injury, may just have found something to shoot for post-2012. The International Association of Athletics Federations has announced that London is one …

Many thanks to Richard Parmiter who got these incredible Team GB shots from the parade today and stuck them in the Londonist Flickrpool. Medals galore and Mark Foster.

Well, who would have thought we’d reach our fourteenth and final London Olympic Timetable worried that a fluffed handover in the women’s 4x100m relay might let the Russians chase Britain down in the overall medal table? The good news is Team GB could yet strike …

Gold! Gold, I tell ‘ee. Gold, in them thar doldrums, damn yer eyes! Ahh, hahahahahaha! We ‘opes you’ll forgive us old sea dogs splicin’ the mainbrace in honour of our crew what’s brought treasure back to these shores. Aye, aye! It’s first mate Andrew Simpson …

And it came to pass that Team GB didst look upon their works and, behold, they were good. And on the twelfth day they rested. Well, comparatively speaking anyway. Today there are only eleven gold medals available across the whole games, the fewest on any …

Even though we’re ten days into the Games of the 29th Olympiad there are still some competitors yet to get their campaigns underway. Two such athletes are pre-Beijing Londonist interviewees Jessica Walker (above left) and Anna Hemmings who, at 11am precisely (all times BST) will …