Angle looks to quit pro wrestling for Olympics. BALA CYNWYD, Pa. -- So long steel cages, pyrotechnics and theme music. Kurt Angle wants to get real about wrestling again. Angle believes the time is right to swap that big gold TNA Wrestling championship belt around his waist for another shiny gold medal around his neck. Creeping up on 43, Angle is serious about becoming an Olympic wrestler for the second time. London 2012 Olympics: David Cameron and other elected officials banned from running with the torch relay. London 2012: Olympic torch relay to visit 17 Essex towns in 2012. 7 November 2011Last updated at 10:55 Among the Essex towns the torch will stop at are Chelmsford, Colchester and Southend The 2012 Olympic torch relay will travel to 17 Essex towns and villages next year, organisers have revealed.
The torch will arrive in the county on 6 July 2012, when the procession heads from Ipswich to Colchester Castle. It will then travel via 10 locations before heading to an overnight stop event at Hylands Park in Chelmsford. On 7 July the torch will visit two more locations on its way into Hertfordshire and another three in north Essex as it travels to Cambridgeshire. Among the Essex towns it will stop at are Maldon, Rayleigh, Southend, Hadleigh, Basildon, Grays, Brentwood, Harlow and Saffron Walden. Colchester borough councillor Tina Dopson said it would be a "once in a lifetime experience" for people living in the town.
She said: "This is a hugely exciting time for Colchester and the surrounding towns and villages. 'Phenomenal news' London 2012 Olympics: No going back on running track in stadium, says sports minister. Robertson’s comments came as Leyton Orient and Tottenham prepared to return to court today to try and recover up to £1 million in costs from the OPLC and Newham Council after the collapse of the stadium deal.
Both clubs were seeking judicial review of the original West Ham-Newham deal and are arguing that their costs should be met in full because the OPLC has withdrawn. The OPLC and Newham are contesting that and Orient, who believe their new evidence in the case was pivotal in prompting the collapse, may push for the case to be heard to secure their money. Meanwhile Lord Coe has brushed aside personal criticism from Andrew Boff, the Conservative spokesman on the London Assembly, that his insistence on retaining a running track has prompted a “catastrophe”. Coe said that all Olympics stakeholders had committed to the stadium legacy. “It was a quadrangular commitment. London 2012 Olympics: West Ham left homeless as stadium deal collapses. Tottenham Hotspur ends 2012 Olympic Stadium legal bid. 17 October 2011Last updated at 20:36.
Spurs deny stadium complaint. Athletics to secure future at London 2012 Olympic Stadium. OPLC has questions to answer over Olympic Stadium shambles. So, the Olympic Stadium, clanger or carve-up?
Nearly 72 hours after the dramatic decision to abandon months of negotiations with West Ham we have little choice to make up our own minds. The Olympic Park Legacy Company, the key body in the process, has had three days to issue a statement or offer some explanation for why it tore up a year’s work, but has still not uttered a word. Sports minister Hugh Robertson has spoken at length about the threat of “legal paralysis” that prompted the decision, and the OPLC communications team say that for now the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, is “taking the lead”.
Not for the first time in the tortuous and flawed history of the stadium, that is a long way from being a satisfactory response. The Olympic Stadium is a £500m public asset that will now have at least another £95m of taxpayer money spent upgrading it so it is fit to be rented to a football club. Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy insists running track would have stopped club's Olympic Stadium bid.
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The National Lottery and Sir Matthew Pinsent present the 'Class of 2012' Subscribe The Class of 2012The National Lottery The National Lottery 01 December 2011 Four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Matthew Pinsent today joined athletes from every one of the 47 Olympic and Paralympic sports, as they featured in an iconic photo to celebrate how National Lottery funding has transformed sport, boosted our medal chances and helped to make the London 2012 Games possible.
Athletes hoping to compete on home soil next year came together with one of Britain’s greatest ever Olympians to recreate a school photo to represent The National Lottery’s ‘Class of 2012’. Most athletes present will have benefited from National Lottery funding directly through UK Sport, whilst athletes from sports such as tennis and football appeared on behalf of the Lottery investment into their sports at a grassroots level, transforming community sport and enabling facilities to be created. National Lottery players have raised £27 billion for Good Causes since the Lottery started in 1994. Up to 1,800 Olympic hopefuls lose funding - UK Politics - UK. Up to 1,800 would-be participants are trying to pull in private sponsorship to keep their hopes alive.
Some have already slipped out of their sports altogether after they were withdrawn from the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) because they were adjudged to be falling below the punishing performance standards set for them. Many more are eking a living making personal appearances and working in pubs and supermarkets while trying to find a way back to the top in time to qualify for the Games. "I'm obviously disadvantaged as I'm now having to work part-time alongside full-time training," said 4x400m runner Richard Buck, who is stacking shelves in Tesco after having his £20,000 annual funding withdrawn.
"It's a huge disappointment. I had improved and won international medals. " Paralympic medallist walks again. Monique Van der Vorst, a Paralympic silver medallist in hand cycling, lost the use of her legs as a result of an operation that went wrong and an accident when she was a teenager.
The 27-year-old from the Netherlands had another accident while training last year and, in an extraordinary twist, she regained the use of her legs. She describes her unexplained recovery and her search for a new identity after being disqualified from competing in the Paralympics - which has resulted in her being offered a contract with a professional road cycling team. Joao Havelange resigns from IOC. Henman wages uncharacteristic war against closure of golf and tennis centre. Thursday, 20 October 2011 By Sue Mott October 20 - British tennis legend Tim Henman, silver medallist at the Atlanta Olympics, is campaigning to prevent a London Council from threatening the existence of a hugely popular Hounslow-based golf and tennis centre following a planning row.
"I haven't chained myself to a set of railings yet, but if I find any I will," Henman said, as the news was released that Hounslow Council officers are going to refuse retrospective planning permission for a "bubble" that covers five courts at the club. A member of a London 2012 Athletes Advisory Panel, Henman is incensed that when the issue of an Olympic legacy is so high on the sporting and cultural agenda, one London Council is threatening a pay-as-you-play facility at Dukes Meadows that hosts up to 1,000 children a week.
"It's completely mad to do something that stops children playing sport," said the former British number one. "I really hope the Council see sense. " "It's not an exclusive club," said Henman. Top Results Signal Bright Future for GB skating. Olympic weekend in pictures. Roger Mosey: How to find the BBC's Olympic content. 2012 London Olympics Super Hi-Vision broadcast coming to select US, Japan, UK locations. London 2012: BBC launches Olympic programmes. 24 November 2011Last updated at 13:09 Clockwise from top left: BBC Shakespeare season, Tinie Tempah performs for Radio 1, QI does Shakespeare and short film What If Shakespeare, live music and the history of London will form the backbone of the BBC's programmes to mark the Olympics.
BBC London 2012 director Roger Mosey said the cultural line-up should have "something for everyone". The Shakespeare season features several documentaries and a special edition of Antiques Roadshow, alongside new versions of the bard's history plays. Meanwhile, the Proms will be part of the 2012 Festival and Tinie Tempah will play Radio 1's Hackney weekend. The music festival, which was announced in June, is being described as the largest live music event ever staged by the BBC.
It will also see performances from Florence and the Machine and Hackney-born artists Leona Lewis and Plan B. London 2012: BBC titles for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. London 2012: BBC titles for the Athens 2004 Olympics. London 2012: BBC titles for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. London 2012: BBC titles for the Barcelona 1992 Olympics. London 2012: BBC titles for the Seoul 1988 Olympics. London 2012: Elbow compose BBC's Olympic theme. 24 November 2011Last updated at 15:41. London 2012 Olympics: BBC announces presenters.