As dawn was breaking across London, the Paralympic torch was being carried through the capital towards the Olympic Park, where tonight it will ignite ...
The lighting of the Paralympic Flame at Northern Ireland's devolved parliament has shone the message of the power of human endeavour and energy, it ha...
The Paralympic Games torch relay was kicked off on Friday at a London ceremony attended by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, London mayor Boris Johns...
A billion words have been written about the opening ceremony so I won't add to them, save to say that it has given a little boost to the nation's feelings for the Games which nevertheless still teeter on the line between a full embrace and complete intolerance.
I have always loved the Olympics and really wanted my troopers to experience the excitement of the greatest sporting event on earth first hand. So I tried everything I could to get tickets: I entered the ticket lotteries for the Olympics and Paralympics, and every competition to win tickets that I could find. But it was all to no avail. I could not get a single ticket. It would be fair to say I was bitterly disappointed.
In the Olympic Café, just a bacon buttie's throw from Wembley Stadium, enthusiasm for the London Olympics was decidedly muted. But then this was 2002: even the Athens Games were still a couple of years away, and whatever goes for tumbleweed in East London was still blowing through the unregenerated Lower Lea Valley.
I love the Olympics, love the endeavour, the challenge to push the limits of human capability. I love the competition, the striving, the winning and the losing; the podium moments, the team hugs and the heartbreak interviews. But that is not what the torch relay or indeed, these Games themselves are about. They are about consumption.
An Ethiopian teenager has gone missing in Nottingham just hours after taking part in the Olympic torch relay on Thursday. Natnael Yemane, 15, is kn...
A full dress rehearsal for the London 2012 Olympics torch relay is under way with Leicestershire bearers leading the way. Some 122 participants fro...
The shrill of a ringing bell carries a number of connotations. With this being a piece on London 2012, it could be a hackneyed reference to a city waking up to the dawn of a new beginning come July. It could even be more on-the-nose with some reference to Big Ben chiming welcoming tones to the arriving world...
The full list of locations for the Olympic torch relay route has been announced. Organisers claim that more than 1,000 villages and towns will be v...
