"Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell... The Daily Telegraph on how film director Danny Boyle was able to get 60,000 volunteers to keep Olympic Opening Ceremonies on the QT; #London2012, #TeamGB

London2012 video: Dove Bike Rehearsals London 2012. July 27, 2012.
http://youtu.be/zZmyp3zcm4I



London2012 video: Mary Poppins Rehearsals London 2012, July 27, 2012
http://youtu.be/BZEYCRWpsZk


"Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell... The Daily Telegraph on how film director Danny Boyle was able to get 60,000 volunteers to keep Olympic Opening Ceremonies on the QT; #London2012, #TeamGB 


The Daily Telegraph

London 2012 Olympics: How Danny Boyle got 60,000 fans to keep mum over opening ceremony dress rehearsal
In the age of Twitter, Facebook and 24 hour news, getting 60,000 people to keep details of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony secret should surely be an impossible task.
By Gordon Rayner, and Jack Taperell
4:28PM BST 24 Jul 2012

In the age of Twitter, Facebook and 24 hour news, getting 60,000 people to keep details of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony secret should surely be an impossible task.

But Danny Boyle appears to have done just that by appealing to a crowd invited to a dress rehearsal on Monday night not to spoil the surprise for the rest of us.

Read the rest of the article at: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/london-2012/9423842/London-2012-Olympics-How-Danny-Boyle-got-60000-fans-to-keep-mum-over-opening-ceremony-dress-rehearsal.html


Which nation in the March of Nations in tonight's Opening Ceremonies will be the subject of the most condescending remark or anecdote from NBC-TV hosts tonight in London?


http://www.youtube.com/london2012

As the London 2012 Olympics reach two weeks and counting, the world's news media -and enthusiastic London Mayor Boris Johnson- visit Olympic Park, the Athletes Village, some venues and give us their appraisals; #London2012, @London2012

alejandromedinafilms video:  Time-lapse footage of construction of the London 2012 Athletes' Village. (HD). February 22, 2012. http://youtu.be/bB0W8xiqQ8Y





Al Jazeera video: Al Jazeera correspondent Lee Wellings checks out the Olympic Park two weeks before it's full of 16,000 athletes. July 13, 2012.
http://youtu.be/I1ZqZfVjMYU





Australia's 7News: Inside the Olympic village. July 13, 2012. 
http://youtu.be/p1os8q-8geo





London Mayor Boris Johnson inspected the beautiful Olympic Park on Friday, two weeks before the Opening Ceremonies and comes away both impressed and proud. 


MayorsOfficeLondon video: July 13, 2012. http://youtu.be/HIlZmMBYUy8
SNTVonline video: July 13, 2012.  http://youtu.be/p6Bg7uFUays





MayorsOfficeLondon video: A new £50m cable car system -aka Emirates Air Line- linking the Excel Centre at Royal Victoria Docks across the Thames to the O2 Arena in north Greenwich in five minutes, and with an amazing view. http://youtu.be/PLAz1lM0zgs


You don't have to be a genius to know in advance that whatever else happens the first week, this cable car ride with its great views is going to be one of the early breakout hits of the Olympics, with every TV cameraman from around the world in London taking at least two trips across with one of their correspondents showing the folks back home the view from mid-air, to say nothing of the visitors and athletes themselves who will cross with their own video-cams in tow, and why not? 
But the queues will be long!!!


I expect that within a month from today, there will easily be at least 500 videos of the entire Thames crossing on YouTube.


And lest you forget, that's Greenwich as in Greenwich Mean Time -GMT- though during the summer up 'til late October, London is actually on BST, British Summer Time, where the living is easy.
In any case, where time begins on this blue planet.




SNTVonline video: Inside Olympics venue - the Excel Centre. July 13, 2012.
http://youtu.be/3VN8R2mqxvU

Speaking of Depeche Mode... the music in the cable car video above you just heard is their's 



WarnerBrosRecords video: Depeche Mode - It's No Good (Remastered Video). October 26, 2009. http://youtu.be/aieEZ950d1I
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http://www.london2012.com/spectators/venues/

Four Weeks of the Olympic Torch Relay thru Britain -London 2012 Olympics; Isabella Duder's video of Will.i.am carrying Olympic torch in Taunton

Olympic Torch Relay Week 1 Highlights - London 2012, May 26, 2012.
http://youtu.be/BSsi3vcaP_0



Olympic Torch Relay Week 2 Highlights - London 2012, June 2, 2012.
http://youtu.be/Kp3XUllY3qU



Olympic Torch Relay Week 3 Highlights - London 2012, June 9, 2012.
http://youtu.be/SHcs-qR9XLs



Olympic Torch Relay Week 4 Highlights - London 2012, June 16, 2012.
http://youtu.be/90Cu7PdxrNk



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.


Watch the Olympic Torch Relay LIVE at 
http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/video/live.html


Don't miss blogger Isabella Duder's great photos of the Torch Relay on Day Three in Taunton featuring Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas carrying the torch there:
http://isabelladuder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/olympic-torch-relay-day-3-taunton.html



Her May 22nd video is at: http://youtu.be/7-ZUvK2veiQ 
First are some photos, then the video starts at 0:19.


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http://www.london2012.com/


http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/


http://www.lloydstsblondon2012.co.uk/en/In-your-community/Olympic-Torch-Relay/

Official London 2012 Olympics YouTube Channel: 
http://www.youtube.com/user/london2012


http://www.olympic.org/ 

Hello Miami, London Calling: Season's greetings from London 2012 Olympics; David Beckham doesn't BEND, but shoots & scores anyway -blindfolded!

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.


London 2012 video:  London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay route animation. November 7, 2011. http://youtu.be/V1tOSzGVGeM
Interactive U.K. map of the Olympic Torch Relay: 
http://www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay-map



London 2012 video: David Beckham tries his hand at blind football (London 2012), November 29, 2011. http://youtu.be/9cjysuRLAAE


http://www.london2012.com/


http://www.london2012.com/mascots


Official YouTube Channel of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games:
http://www.youtube.com/user/london2012


Sign-up for London 2012 newsletters:
https://www.london2012.com/settings/esignup.php?returl=/index.php

Blimey! Two-thirds of the 1.9 million sports fans who applied for London 2012 Olympics tickets get shut out; one-third of events are already sold-out

Channel 4 News video: London 2012 -Two thirds of applicants left without tickets

June 17, 2011.

http://bcove.me/2q11ijx7

Complete story at

http://www.channel4.com/news/1-2m-bidders-for-olympics-tickets-left-empty-handed

Meanwhile, just when you thought you'd heard it all, guess who WAS given some tickets?

Yes, no matter how you spell it, the name Gaddafi still opens important doors...

ITN News video: Libya given London Olympic tickets, June 15, 2011

http://youtu.be/sOSaCOodonc

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Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee video: Jeret "Speedy" Peterson - "Cooking with Speedy"

http://youtu.be/t9DN8zPOv4U

"Go big or go home!"

But who's counting? London 2012 Olympics is 500 Days and counting -and a Clock to do just that in Trafalgar Square!

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7001629133953783160&postID=2946762817853573856

Australia's TEN News' Europe correspondent Brett Mason interviews London 2012 Organising Committee chairman Lord Sebastian Coe about comparisons to Sydney 2004, and a clock at Trafalgar Square to drive home the deadline. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRTixVFPeBs

The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Executive Board meets in London on April 5 and 6 and will get updates on preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games: London 2012, Sochi 2014 and Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Countdown Clock unveiled to mark 500 days to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games: http://www.london2012.com/news/2011/03/countdown-clock-unveiled-to-mark-500-days-to-go-to-the-l.php

Olympic Tickets are now on sale: http://www.tickets.london2012.com/



Channel 4 News: Olympic tickets go on sale on Tuesday but just how much will you have to pay to see the spectacle as speculation for ticket touting prices escalating into the thousands?
http://bcove.me/qykioeiw

Former GB rower Sarah Winckless, Chair of the BOA Athletes Commission, blogs on seeing the Olympic venues up-close and personal since her last visit and is very impressed:

Athletes Commission Inspired by Olympic Park Visit
Posted by Sarah Winckless
March 15, 2011
http://www.olympics.org.uk/News/c8211e-athletes-commission-inspired-by-olympic-park-visit/

See also:
Sarah Winckless disease proves that sport does matter
By Matthew Syed, April 29, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/matthew_syed/article6187946.ece

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Official London 2012 Olympics website: http://www.london2012.com/

Olympic webcams in London: https://www.london2012.com/webcams/

Official blog: https://www.london2012.com/blog/

Official Mascots homepage, Wenlock and Mandeville:
http://www.mylondon2012.com/mascots/

BBC's London 2012 Olympics homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/

Team GB: http://www.olympics.org.uk/

Team GB blog: http://www.olympics.org.uk/News/category/blogs/

26 Sports, One Team: http://www.olympics.org.uk/sports/

See also:
Full sports competition schedule for the XXX Olympic Summer Games, July 27-August 12th
http://www.olympic.org/london-2012-summer-olympics?articlenewsgroup=-1&articleid=115995

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/olyschedule_p1.html

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Iran call London 2012 logo racist: report
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/sports/223972/iran-call-london-2012-logo-racist-report



Sebastian Coe WR 800
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0e1yaMIM08