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iSportconnect sat down with Sir Craig Reedie, International Olympic
Committee (IOC) vice-president and head of the 2020 Evaluation
Commission to exclusively hear what the IOC looks for in a host
city, the lessons that can be learned from London 2012 and the
importance of a post-Games legacy.
What does the IOC look for in a bidding city and what
criteria...
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The success of Jades Jones and Lutalo Muhammad at London 2012
has catapulted the sport of Taekwondo in Britain into a realm of
unprecedented participation and interest.
Since the conclusion of the Games, the team at British Taekwondo
have spent countless hours conducting extensive research and
results suggest that clubs...
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Glass is not the new rock and roll. People have been mixing sand
with soda and potash for centuries so why have all-glass squash
courts only been around for less than thirty years? The answer is
that the kick-start was provided by one-way vision. It was the
ability to allow spectators to look in but that players...
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The outgoing BOA Chairman, Colin Moynihan, used his position
brilliantly to announce how wrong it is that more than 50% of the
country’s 2008 medallists in Beijing came from elite independent
schools and that percentage represents a mere 7% of the
population.
He added: "There is so much talent out there in the...
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Although
London 2012 has been universally lauded as a great success,
security surrounding the Games received significant public
criticism, specifically the failure of a contractor to meet its
obligations to provide sufficient security guards. Despite the
obvious deficiencies in the provision of guarding by G4S, there
were many other...
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