The royal couple also visited Team GB at the Olympic village during the Games.
The Israelis are staying at the Olympic village for the first time since Palestinian terrorists stormed an apartment house there.
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.
The pair claimed they had been involved in a motorcycle accident on their way to the Olympic Village in Athens to be drugs tested.
The attack began in the early hours of September 5, 1972, when eight Palestinian terrorists disguised in track suits broke into the Olympic Village in Munich.
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.
From the Olympic Village, the militants demanded the release of 200 Arab inmates from Israeli prisons or they would start killing the athletes in Munich, one every hour.
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.
On the morning of September 5, 1972, eight members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Israeli team's apartments in the Olympic Village and took the 11 Israeli athletes hostage, killing two immediately.
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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Those Olympics may be celebrated for Mark Spitz's seven swimming gold medals (a record broken in the 2008 Beijing games by Michael Phelps, who won eight) and recalled for the controversial U.S.-USSR men's basketball final, but its lasting image may be that of a masked gunman on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
Directed to the "Olympic village, " they would find a vast, partly tented, partly open-to-the-skies encampment, with inadequate water supplies, heaps of stinking refuse and huge improvised latrines.
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.
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