Union Jack’s Sporting Roundup May 2013
England Welcomes The West Indies THE WEST INDIES arrived in England rather disheveled with injuries, visa problems and a missing Marion Samuels who was due to arrive after playing in the Indian Super League. The tour, May 4-June 24, opened at Hove against Sussex, where the visitors were unsure if they would actually have eleven [...]
Union Jack’s Sporting Roundup October 2012
Andy Murray Makes History NOVAK DJOKOVIC had won his last eight encounters with Andy Murray, but in the final of the US Open Championships at the Arthur Ashe Stadium last month, the Dunblane Scot and his Serb opponent produced some spectacular tennis that witnessed Murray win his very first Grand Slam event. The Scot won [...]
Satisfaction And Sorrow As London Says Goodbye To Games
By Mike Collett-White and Maria Golovnina LONDON (Reuters) – London looked back on the Olympics on Monday with satisfaction and sorrow, confident it had hosted a successful Games yet aware that the 17-day party was over and it was back to the reality of economic recession and painful spending cuts. As thousands of athletes flew [...]
Troops Win Over Spectators At Olympic Venues
By Mohammed Abbas BETTER KNOWN for their role in global conflicts and emergencies, the British military is now being acclaimed for defusing a crisis closer to home after stepping in to help guard the Olympic Games. While competing athletes may have wowed the crowds at Olympic venues, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of Britain’s armed [...]
London Olympic Shorts
King Of The Sea BRITAIN’S Ben Ainslie didn’t win the race, but he still sailed into the history books. By coming in ninth in last month’s race, Ainslie won his fourth straight gold medal and fifth Olympic medal overall to eclipse Denmark’s Paul Elvstrom as the most decorated sailing Olympian ever. The key for the [...]
London 2012 Opening Ceremony Draws 900 Million Viewers
By Avril Ormsby THE OPENING ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics attracted an estimated global TV audience of 900 million people, with under-fire NBC notching up record viewing figures in the United States, organisers said on Tuesday. US broadcaster NBC, which has been criticised in some quarters for delaying coverage of some marquee events for [...]
Britain Abandons Stiff Upper Lip For Glory Of Games
By Paul Casciato ROYAL HUGS in public, quivering lips on the podium and the deafening roar of the home crowd urging on their athletes at the London Olympics shows 21st century Britain has finally shed its reserved imperial-era persona. Regarded as a nation of restraint portrayed in TV dramas such as Downton Abbey, Britons – [...]



