The report recommended shortening the 10-day Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore.
With tens of thousands of people entering the Olympic Park every day, it was perhaps only natural that various religions, philosophies and causes would jump at the chance to win some of them over.
After meeting bigwigs including International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who said "Lord Bates is setting a fine example of what it means to live by the Olympic values every day, " and Pope Benedict XVI, who welcomed him with the observation "You've walked a long way, " Lord Bates is on the home stretch.
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It was a miserable day for Olympic champion Tiki Gelana, who finished 16th after seeing her hopes thwarted by a collision about a third of the way in.
Those with day tickets for the Olympic Park or for sporting events there can also buy tickets for the same day for the Orbit Tower.
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Any lingering hopes that Manchester could one day host the Olympic Games have been dismissed by Sports Minister Richard Caborn.
It looks as though the day of the Olympic truce, when fighting was put on hold for athletes and spectators alike, that's over.
At a CBS studio in Grand Central Terminal a young broadcaster named Jim McKay narrated the day's Olympic highlights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
They hadn't lost a set in Olympic competition until the other day, when they dropped one to Austria ("Pissed me off for a day and a half, " Walsh Jennings cracked later.).
The gathering - on the last day of the Olympic Games - will bring together world leaders, business figures, non-government organisations and development campaigners in an effort to generate renewed momentum behind tackling malnutrition in Africa and other parts of the world.
And Bolt was celebrating with them, doing the 'Mo-Bot' -- copying the celebration of British athlete Mo Farah, who completed a Olympic double earlier in the day winning the men's 5, 000m as well as the 10, 000m earlier in the week -- as he followed his 100m and 200m golds with a relay victory.
This might have been a "fun" day for the 400m Olympic champion, but she is in tip-top shape.
Since many of the events took place on Whistler's slopes, Olympic infrastructure improvements also made quick day-trips to Whistler feasible.
Up to 3, 600 athletes, aged 15-18, are set to take part in 28 Olympic sports at the 12-day 2018 Games.
Great Britain had secured five Olympic medals coming into the fifth day of the Games, and none of them were gold.
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On the Babbage platform 55 miles off the east coast they produce enough gas in a day to fill the Olympic Stadium in London four times over.
Ed Wright is in third place after coming fifth in the only Finn race of the day, in which Olympic development squad sailor Giles Scott posted a notable seventh.
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This is the prince who dispensed with handshakes when he met Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller in March 2012 and gave her a hug instead (he said he had heard that she liked hugs.) On the same day he also challenged Olympic multi-medallist Usain Bolt to a race and then went on to impersonate Bob Marley during a state dinner.
This after a wild day in Paris where the Olympic torch procession did not go as planned.
The Hammers and Newham Council formally delivered their bid to the Olympic Park Legacy Company earlier in the day.
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But if he'd hung back, would he have managed on an intensely hot and humid day to set a new Olympic record?
She said winning her medal, on 3 August, at her fourth Olympic Games, was an "amazing" day.
In comparison, about 8.3m people accessed the BBC's sport website on the first day of this year's Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee visited China for a four-day inspection of the capital, Beijing, which is bidding to host the games in 2008.
The Olympic flame was briefly hidden from the light of day on 5 June 2012 as it was carried through a labyrinth of natural caves in Northern Ireland.
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.
My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).
In a worst-case scenario, some Olympic events may have to be put off for a day or two until the pollution clears.
The London Anniversary Games are a three-day event which will be staged at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford from 26 to 28 July.
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