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Where To Play Sport In London: Part E

Where to try equestrian, English billiards, 8-a-side, endurance running and extreme sports in London.

Piggy French and DHI Topper W, LOCOG Greenwich Park Invitational Olympic Test Event, London, July 2011

Olympic Sport Lowdown: Equestrian Events

What you need to know about Eventing, Jumping, Dressage and Para-Dressage

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Greenwich Council Gives Nod To Equestrian Events In Park

Image by M@ Last night, at what can only be described as a marathon of a public meeting, Greenwich Council’s planning board gave the green light to hosting equestrian events in Greenwich Park. After nearly five hours of deliberation at Woolwich Town Hall, the board …

Greenwich Park, pre 2012

Calling All Greenwich Park Users

Greenwich Park As previously reported, there’s a lot of confusing nonsense spread about Greenwich Park, one of the venues where the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be taking place in 1,000 days’ time. But there are also concerns that need to be allayed, and plans …

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Greenwich Protesters Attempt Ring Around Park

Image by M@ With the historic backdrop of Wren’s Royal Naval College and the sweeping Thames, it’s hard to imagine a more visually splendid setting for the Olympic equestrian events than Greenwich Park. Local campaign group NOGOE (No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events), as you’ve …

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Our Four To Follow At London’s Paralympic Games

Dervis Konuralp, Tom Aggar, Andy Barrow & Sophie Christiansen Time flies by when you have the world’s two greatest sporting events – the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games – heading your way. It seems only yesterday that London knocked out Paris to win the …

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London Olympic Timetable – Second Friday

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 …

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London Olympic Timetable – Second Wednesday

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 …

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London Olympic Timetable – Second Tuesday

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 …

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London Olympic Timetable – Second Monday

Please sit down before reading this. Great Britain is third in the Olympic medal table. There’s only China and the US ahead of us at the moment. Such lofty attainment is almost certainly unique in the years since we last held the Games ourselves in …

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London Olympic Timetable – Second Saturday

As we pen this latest despatch from the land of Olympia we are hunched over our table, bracing ourselves for the avalanche of must-see denouments and prospective medals set to sweep us away on this middle Saturday of the Games. So far London can lay …