30th Summer Olympics – London 2012

Jul 27
2012

Every edition of the modern Olympics, beginning with the first in 1896 in Athens, Greece, has been dubbed historic. The reason is simple. In each case the host city and national government of the host country does whatever is deemed necessary to ensure that the world watching gets a good look at all that the country should be recognised for. Read the rest of this entry »

Selecting an Olympic Team for London 2012

Jul 20
2012

For the past several months time has been taken to inform the Vincentian community about the process in which the National Olympic Committee (NOC) had been involved in preparing the national representative team to the London Olympics. Now that the Games are here and the team selected there is need for a detailed summary.

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Athletics, Bolt and the Olympics of 2012

Jul 13
2012

The sport of track and field athletics has always prided itself as the crème de la crème of the world of sport. This claim has often been challenged by others ports which boast mass appeal and excitement. Read the rest of this entry »

Drugs still plague sporting developments

Jul 06
2012

On 27 July 2012 the 30th edition of the Summer Olympics of the modern era would be officially opened with tremendous glitz, glamour, lofty speeches and fireworks. The entire world would watch and listen. Many would hanker back to the lofty ideals of the founders of the international Olympic Movement and the lofty ideals that have been intended to be attendant to them. Read the rest of this entry »

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