The royal couple also visited Team GB at the Olympic village during the Games.
Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
The Olympic Village would be housing we desperately need, all funded privately.
It's a sad certainty: Mere months, if not weeks, after the hordes leave the Olympic village in Beijing, most of the competitors--even the medalists--will slip from international consciousness.
New York's team say no venue will be more than 20 miles from the Olympic village, at the centre of the X on the East River in Queens.
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The Olympic Village would be built at Tokyo Bay and therefore situated within walking distance of the main venues, all of which would sit within an 8km (five-mile) radius.
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Ojong added that five boxers eliminated from the games, Thomas Essomba, Christian Donfack Adjoufack, Abdon Mewoli, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo and Serge Ambomo, disappeared on Sunday from the Olympic village.
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O2, subcontracted by BT to provide mobile services within the Olympic Village, suffered a glitch this month when a third of its customers were hit by a 24-hour network failure.
Just as architects' drawings of the mosque emerged, Britain's largest church, the Kingsway International Christian Centre in nearby Hackney, was told it would have to make way for the Olympic village.
The Spielberg movie and the Klein book both relate the attack on the Olympic village in similar detail, although Klein also explains the phenomenal incompetence of the German hosts of the Games.
Right in front of the Olympic Village, athletes will have a very comfortable way of reaching the venues, which in the past Olympic years would be a very comfortable way of reaching the slopes, also for the tourists.
As athletes continue to arrive in London, Coe said he was satisfied with the early stages of the Olympic operation, despite American hurdler Kerron Clement complaining that his bus got lost on the way to the Olympic village.
Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut grabbed the headlines while the atmosphere around the Olympic village was so relaxed that off-duty athletes, returning from late nights in Bavarian beer halls, could often be found climbing into the complex over the low chain-link fence.
The external structure of the Olympic Stadium has been built, the dynamic curving roof of the Aquatics Center is more than halfway complete, and work is "progressing well" on the Olympic Village, the Velodrome indoor cycling venue, and the main press center, officials say.
Carlson is arranging guided tours for visitors to Kodak's medical-imaging facility in the Olympic Village and the press center (where Kodak will process 5 million digital images), along with tickets to carefully selected Olympic events and perks like visits to the Great Wall and trips to Beijing's Silk Market.
Two of the best are " Ice Lights", a light-installation at Vancouver City Hall that looks like ice framing the historic building, and " The Birds", a pair of larger-than-life bird sculptures that once stood sentry at the site of the Olympic Village and now roost at the Southeast False Creek Plaza.
The medical care that many athletes will receive from physicians and therapists at the new 36 million dollar state of the art medical complex in the Olympic Village the next 3 weeks will likely surpass the type of access to medical care that most residents in the UK will receive anytime soon.
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So an undeveloped site was identified only three miles from the planned Olympic village.
The vast majority of these venues are no more than 20 minutes travel from the Youth Olympic Village in Sighthill.
Through autumn, several walking tours are taking visitors through this regenerated area, to see the structures built specifically for the Games and to experience the neighbourhoods that surround the Olympic and Paralympic Village, where the athletes live.
The master design was drawn up by David Mackay of Barcelona-based MBM Arquitectes, who designed and built the boulevards for the Spanish city's Olympic village.
Category one refers to the direct Olympic budget, covering costs like the athlete's village, transportation and the opening ceremonies.
The 36-strong British Olympic team will check out of the athletes' village in Athens on Wednesday and fly directly to Manchester for a four-day competition which starts the following day.
On shore, tourists will be drawn to a yachting center styled after an Olympic Village, with sponsors and the host government paying most of the bills.
London would need a new stadium and Olympic village, to be sited in the east of the city, and transport links would also have to be upgraded by 2012, which is also the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.
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One of the biggest undertakings would be a 17, 800-bed Olympic Village, designed in an "open-air museum" concept, which would "be fully financed and guaranteed by the City of Madrid" to ensure "minimum risk factor, " according to the city's application, submitted in February.
London, by contrast, is planning a 500-acre Olympic park, complete with athletes' village, indoor arenas and swimming pool, in the lower Lea Valley, an unloved bit of east London.
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