China also frets about the Olympic games in Beijing in August 2008, in a season when rainstorms are common.
And the council wants every child in Stoke-on-Trent to think about what the Olympic Games means for them.
"I am happy about the fact that the Olympic Games under my watch were good games, " Rogge said in his final London press conference on Sunday.
And by the way, if you think about the people of Scotland and the Olympic games, they weren't cheering on just the Scottish athletes of Team GB, they were cheering on all the athletes of Team GB.
The world quickly learned just about everything there is to know about Ryan Lochte during the Olympic Games in London this summer.
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In my new book Uprising: the secret to movement marketing, I talked with Timo Lume of the IOC about the Gold Medal Champ of All Global Movements, the Olympic games.
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The governor of Tokyo has apologised for comments he made about rival Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
During questions on 24 July 2012, Baroness Fookes asked ministers what representations they had made to the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union about the proposed strike on the day before the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.
This year is proving to be a difficult one for dissenters in China because of the government's anxiety about politically sensitive anniversaries (last year, preparations for the Olympic Games made the government twitchy).
Meanwhile, Sandusky will continue to communicate and tell the stories of American athletes so that the public can get excited about upcoming Olympic games.
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In 2010, the International Olympic Committee stripped China of its bronze medal from the 2000 Games for lying about the age of a team member who was 14 when she competed.
Lord Coe, who is in charge of the London Olympic organising committee, has said that people are "overwhelmingly very positive" about the games and that he believes there are no concerns over security.
The winners in the 2012 Olympic Games in London have a light, calm, and clear look about them, while the also-rans seem to be grinding and pushing.
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In trying to help the Olympic Games touch all corners of the globe, the International Olympic Committee has cared little about the internal economic mess that, in some instances, is left behind in the aftermath of international competition.
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Curator Jessica Lewis said it was given a boost with the Olympic Games, but it was hoped about 300, 000 people would visit it annually.
When he lines up for the U.S. "Dream Team" in Beijing, Bryant will be making his first appearance at an Olympic Games and a gold medal is just about the only thing that he hasn't won in a stellar career.
Then, on August 8th, about 11, 500 athletes from around the world will gather in Beijing for the Olympic games.
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Going beyond that to try and control what athletes say on their twitter feeds and Facebook pages about the sponsors who have allowed them to compete goes too far and ultimately it will hurt the Olympic Games.
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I've been contacted by quite a few Olympic volunteers and transport workers who have concerns about how they're going to get to the Games early and return late at night.
The relay runs from 19 May to 27 July 2012, with the torch travelling about 8, 000 miles, culminating in the lighting of the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford at the Games' opening ceremony.
In comparison, about 8.3m people accessed the BBC's sport website on the first day of this year's Olympic Games.
After the success of last year's Olympic and Paralympic games, organisers said they were "thinking hard about it".
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