Olympics

Our complete archive of Olympic coverage, stretching back to 2005.

Tour Cancelled, Tour Announced

Manic Street Preachers have announced a UK tour. The artists formerly known as thin play the Hammersmith Apollo on 18th April. The official line is “Tickets are not on sale yet. Watch this space for more details very soon…..” but the CD Times reckons that …

Nice Stadium For Ducks

The award-winning Zaha Hadid was today announced as the designer of London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre. Which may or may not be the plain old London Aquatics Centre, depending on whether we get the 2012 Olympics. Either way, it will be built. The building looks very …

As Others See Us

Any attempt to bring the noble sport of darts to the Olympics was probably set back eight years this morning through the publication of this Bloomberg report. BSkyB plans to charge viewers £9.95 to watch the two darts world champions — Andy Fordham of the …

Lovely Arrows

Could darts be on the agenda for the 2012 Olympics? It depends if the Olympic Committee want to argue with thirty stone BDO world champion, Andy ‘The Viking’ Fordham. Today’s Mirror quotes Fordham as saying “I’d love to take part in the Olympics – it …

Kerry is Anti-London?

You thought you were dong a good thing. You particpated in the ill-fated Guardian letter writing campaign. You sent off for the John Kerry campaign pack and stuck the stickers on your fridge. And you even try and watch the Daily Show via satellite telly. …