MORE than 2 million London 2012 tickets will be released next week to fans who missed out in last month’s ballot. Olympics organisers said yesterday (FRI) that 2.3million tickets are up for grabs on a first-come, first-served basis – but 1.7million of those are for football matches. They will be released at 6am next Friday [...]
Janet Evans is back in the pool and hoping to swim at the London Olympics. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, the 39-year-old Evans says she’s been training hard with an eye on qualifying for next year’s US Olympic trials. Janet Evans was perfectly content to walk away from swimming after the 1996 [...]
Henry Cavill, star of Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot, is engaged to British athlete Ellen Whitaker (who is on the British show jumping team and is currently training for the 2012 Olympics). “Superman” hunk Henry Cavill is engaged, after popping the question Tuesday to his equestrian girlfriend Ellen Whitaker. Henry Cavill , 27, who will [...]
N FC-enabled mobile payments are coming to the London 2012 Olympics, thanks to a new partnership between Samsung and Visa, both sponsors of the upcoming Games. In addition, Samsung will launch a specially branded “Samsung Olympic and Paralympic Games” mobile handset in conjunction with the sponsorship, which will include the technology necessary for making mobile [...]
2012 London Olympics, tickets are now on sale. An estimated 6.6 million tickets will be available across all the events via the official website. Road racing is on the opening day of competition on July 28, while the mountain bike cross country races end the cycling events on August 11 and 12. For comprehensive coverage [...]
