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Originally Posted by 1100

Hindi ba sa O2 Arena ang basketball?

alam ko yung q-finals to finals lang ata sa O2 Arena (or Greenwich Arena, ayaw kasi ng IOC na kelangan banggitin ang owner ng naming rights ng venue)

first week ata ng Olympics, reserved ang O2 para sa gymnastics

[1100]

San ang preliminary round?

[BergenScooterPatrol]

Originally Posted by 1100

San ang preliminary round?

dito nga, sa temporary arena na tinayo sa Olympic Park.

[hugodiekonig]

According to the latest update from wikipedia, we already have 9 Filipino athletes for the incoming Olympics




Athletics:
Rene Herrera - 3000m steeplechase (men)
Marestella Torres - long jump (women)


Boxing:
Mark Barriga - 49kg

Cycling:
Daniel Caluag - Men's BMX

Judo:
Tomohika Hoshina - 100+kg men


Shooting:
Brian Rosario - skeet (men)

Swimming:
Jessie Khing Lacuna - 200 m freestyle (men)
100 m freestyle - Jasmine Alkhaldi (women)

Weightlifting:
Hidilyn Diaz - (58 kg women)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...ummer_Olympics

[hugodiekonig]

Sasali parin si Michael Phelps sa Olympics. Whew

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Towson,Maryland's pride! Go Micheal!!!!

[alheaine]

Originally Posted by hugodiekonig

According to the latest update from wikipedia, we already have 9 Filipino athletes for the incoming Olympics




Athletics:
Rene Herrera - 3000m steeplechase (men)
Marestella Torres - long jump (women)


Boxing:
Mark Barriga - 49kg

Cycling:
Daniel Caluag - Men's BMX

Judo:
Tomohika Hoshina - 100+kg men


Shooting:
Brian Rosario - skeet (men)

Swimming:
Jessie Khing Lacuna - 200 m freestyle (men)
100 m freestyle - Jasmine Alkhaldi (women)

Weightlifting:
Hidilyn Diaz - (58 kg women)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...ummer_Olympics

i hope we can get a medal here..

[hugodiekonig]

For me, Judo and Weightlifting are our hopes for at least a bronze medal.

[ofw_cebu]

Applied for 2 events, only allocated one. . . .

[hugodiekonig]

huhuhu buti ka pa

[Fraulein]

Originally Posted by hugodiekonig

For me, Judo and Weightlifting are our hopes for at least a bronze medal.

biggest surprise will be Cycling. Hope he pulls an upset.

[hugodiekonig]

Wow thanks mods! Sticky thread na siya! yuhoo! Go Team Philippines!

[hugodiekonig]

Originally Posted by Fraulein

biggest surprise will be Cycling. Hope he pulls an upset.

ang alam ko first time in many Summer Olympic Games ago na may entry uli tayo sa Cycling. I really hope so he can end the country's medal drought

[hugodiekonig]

Latest addition to the list of Filipino Olympians for this incoming Olympics: 2 from Archery, bringing the total number of athletes to 11

Archers Javier, Cabral make PH Olympic team

By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star
Posted at 06/24/2012 3:12 PM | Updated as of 06/24/2012 3:12 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Archers Mark Javier and Rachel Cabral earned tickets to the forthcoming London Olympics following their steady performances in the just-concluded World Archery Championships in Ogden, Utah.

With Javier and Cabral in, the number of Filipino athletes who will vie in the Summer Games scheduled July 27 to Aug. 12 has risen to 11, with one more boxer hoping to catch the last bus.

Terry Lim, secretary-general of the National Archery Association of the Philippines, yesterday said Javier and Cabral worked hard for their inclusion to the London Olympics.

Lim said Javier, who also competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finished 42nd in his event while Cabral was 37th out of more than a hundred participants.

Lim said 35 countries saw action in Ogden event which also served as the third and last qualifying tournament for the London Olympics.

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Has hosting the Olympics turned into a bad investment for cities?

PARIS – With the cost of hosting the Olympic Games soaring, the economic benefits of the sporting extravaganza have been called into question as the global economy faces a slowdown in growth.

Since Sydney spent four billion euros ($5 billion) to put on the 2000 Games the amounts involved have skyrocketed. Beijing pumped around 40 billion into hosting the 2008 Games.

The London Olympics are expected to come in with a 12 billion euro price tag. Sochi 2014 is expected to be the most expensive winter games ever at around 24 billion euros.

While the blame is laid on the demands made by International Olympic Committee (IOC), host cities and nations often use the games as a pretext to launch massive infrastructure and construction projects.

Through a number of measures, such as limiting the number of athletes and sports, the IOC has succeeded in keeping the operating budgets of the games at around two billion euros.

This covers the two weeks of the Games themselves, the feeding and transporting of the athletes and operating the stadiums. Since 1984, costs have always been covered profitably from ticket sales and television and marketing rights.

The other part of the budget is for infrastructure. This can vary greatly, depending on whether host cities need to build lots of stadiums and transport infrastructure to handle the influx of spectators.

The Games are also often an opportunity for hosts to carry out long-needed redevelopment, which can increase the price tag even further.

“The Olympic Games are often a means to concentrate into two or three years the investments that would normally be spread out over 20 years,” then IOC head Jacques Rogge told AFP in 2008.

China went forward on airport and road construction projects that the IOC hadn’t considered as absolutely necessary to host the games, he said.

For the London Olympics, the infrastructure budget swelled because the British government used the preparations to redevelop huge swathes of East London, including thousands of new homes and transport links.

“This is a choice that we cannot criticise,” Rogge said.

It did however triple the initial estimate of the price tag of the Games.

“Yes, the IOC has tried to keep down the costs,” IOC executive director Gilbert Felli said recently about Rio di Janeiro redevelopment plans for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Games.

“But if a city wants to profit from the Games to build a new metro, rebuild half of its neighbourhoods, there’s nothing you can do.

“It will be extremely expensive, but this isn’t the IOC’s business,” he added.

Big, rapidly growing countries such as China and Brazil can shoulder the costs.

But for Britain, which has fallen back into recession as it tries to bring its public finances back into order, the party may have a hangover.

This was the case for Greece: the stimulus from the 2004 Games was small, but saddled the Greek government with debt.

“The effect on GDP (economic output) is minimal, even for Greece,” said Jean-Louis Chappelet, a professor of public management at the University of Lausanne.

On the other hand, the roughly 10 billion euros it cost to put on the Games swelled Greece’s debt by two to three percent, according to statements by IOC officials.

Worse, Athens is getting little use out of the facilities, which have for the most part been abandoned.

China is getting little use from its Bird’s Nest Stadium although Beijing does not consider it a white elephant, but as the symbol of a successful Games.

But with its economy still growing at over seven percent China can afford letting the stadium stand as a tourist landmark visited by thousands everyday.

[hugodiekonig]

apart from hosting the games, mapapalakas rin ang tourism ng host city.

Nasa host cities na kung gagawin nilang magarbong magarbo ang pag-host ng Olympic Games but they have to make sure that they build infras not just for Olympics but for the long-term use of these, citizens rin nila ang dapat makinabang sa huli

[hugodiekonig]

Kung halimbawang mayaman sana ang Pilipinas at maghost tayo sa Olympics, napapanahon lang ang pagpapatayo ng mga Stadiums and other venues dahil sa status quo ngayon ay may kakulangan tayo sa mga pasilidad sa sports.

[hugodiekonig]

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Le Site Officiel du Londres Jeux Olympique

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Le Site Officiel du Londres Jeux Olympiques