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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
Olympic Torch Relay Day 29 Highlights - London 2012 Included Gateshead, Hadrian's Wall, Sunderland, Durham http://youtu.be/nZUOEPZTPVI
1,019 communities in 70 days:Monday is Day 31, with the Torch Relay in North Yorkshire, and starting in Middlesbrough and winding its way to Hull. 39 days untill the Olympic Games begin Friday July 27th.
London 2012 video: Season's greetings from London 2012 Olympic Games, December 21, 2011.http://youtu.be/u_BR_bIF1HE
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, having been brought up "proper," sent us an informative email today just before lunch that includes salutations and greetings for a new year, along with the cute video above. That email, full of new aerial photos of the brand new Olympic Park venues that have been built in East London, can be seen here: http://view.comms.london2012.com/v/30G50M0/6VKZY/HIWC2K0/K6MJL/MAILACTION=1&FORMAT=H
I hasten to add that I have some very sharp and talented friends in the London area who've been hard-working volunteers from Day One, and I can tell you that they are VERY psyched! 219 days to go until the Summer Olympics of London.
Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand: When the All Blacks were expected to win, what usually happened? Just ask "Sonny Wool"
At 5:45 a.m. Eastern, I'm currently watching the first game between New Zealand and Tonga -from Eden Park- on Universal Sports, DirecTV Channel 625, and the game will be repeated from 5-8 p.m. U.S. Eastern later on Friday.
(Universal Sports is currently being shown on a Free Preview basis on DirecTV thru September 30th, and starting October 1st, it will be offered as part of the Sports Pack, which I already subscribe to. Since the Rugby World Cup will still be going strong, there's the possibility of seeing lots of high-quality action.)
The U.S. plays Ireland in New Plymouth on Sunday, New Zealand time, which will be televised on a taped-delay basis in the U.S. on Sunday from 5-8 p.m. Eastern and repeated from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Reminder: Auckland is 16 hours ahead of Miami/Eastern US
The Telegraph
Rugby World Cup 2011: let battle commence
Rugby’s World Cup will be about thunderous combat, with none of football’s petulance.
By Ian Chadband
9:10PM BST 07 Sep 2011
Here are some things you should know about the Rugby World Cup, which will kick off in New Zealand tomorrow. It will be interminable, running on and on for some seven weeks; it will be predictable, with the chances of a new winner’s name being inscribed on the trophy minimal; and it will be peppered with lots of awful mismatches, taking its cue from tomorrow’s opening game, when New Zealand will roll over plucky little Tonga like 15 big All Black bulldozers.
Meanwhile, in the world of psychic animals and sports predictions... AFP is reporting that:
A rugby-mad sheep touted as the world's latest animal pyschic picked the All Blacks to win their opening World Cup match Friday, in New Zealand's answer to the late, great Paul the Octopus.
The BBCPanorama program that's at the center of theFIFA World Cup bid controversy,Fifa's Dirty Secrets, is here, http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/default.stmwhere you can read about some of the accusations leveled against FIFA officials, but for copyright reasons, the program can'tofficially be seen in the U.S.. http://www.epltalk.com/how-you-can-watch-bbc-panorama-fifas-dirty-secrets-in-the-u-s-26989
Long story short:The alleged bribes to three officials are included in a confidential document listing 175 payments totalling about£64m. Here are two videos on YouTube that comprise theFIFA'S DIRTY SECRETSprogram, so watch it while you can before the BBC makes them take the videos down.
BBC Panorama: FIFA'S DIRTY SECRETS - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjlZw9NGSlU
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BBC Panorama: FIFA'S DIRTY SECRETS - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQy4eT4M9I The Channel 4 website article that accompanies this video at the top is here: Tuesday 30 November 2010
Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham fly to Zurich to try and boost England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup - but hopes have been dampened by the latest publication of bribery allegations.As delegates gathered to press the flesh at the headquarters of FIFA - football's governing body - ahead of Thursday's announcement of the winner, the English bid team have been frustrated by the timing of the BBC Panorama programme which accused three FIFA officials of taking bribes in the past.
Read the rest of it at: http://www.channel4.com/news/world-cup-2018-bid-team-fly-to-zurich
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I wrote about the bid process on my blog on Monday and just loved Australia's bid videos, esp. the one hosted by Nicole Kidman, which emphasized the sorts of things that real fans care about: fun, safety and ease-of-access and no hassles. http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/even-before-2018-2022-fifa-world-cup.html
As you know by now, the announcements about who'll be hosting the 2018 and 2022 FIFA spectacles are to be made on Thursday, or Friday Australian time.
Nicky Campbell talked on his BBCRadio 5 live show Tuesday morning with some very knowledgeable guests and well-informed listeners about Monday night's Panorama program and whether there'd be a backlash among the FIFA officials against England's bid to host in 2018, or whether the truth is more important than commerce.
The podcast for the informative program is here and well worth listening to: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/5lnpi/5lnpi_20101130-1045a.mp3 Tony Livesey’s show onBBC Radio 5 liveon Thursday December 2nd will originate from the City of Manchester Stadium and "will gauge reaction to the FIFA World Cup vote which will have decided the host country for the 2018 World Cup."
"Win or lose, a panel of football pundits will discuss the result including former Hull Boss Phil Brown and 5 live football commentator Connor McNamara, and an audience of 5 live listeners."
It airs 10:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. U.K. time, or 5:30 p.m. Eastern/2:30 p.m. Pacific in the U.S. and Canada. Catch it here at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_five_live
