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From Yahoo! News Orchestra admits miming at Sydney Olympics (CNN.com) SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Officials with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra have acknowledged their entire performance during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics in Australia was prerecorded. Orchestra admits 'miming' at Sydney Olympics in 2000 (AFP via Yahoo! News) Eight years after it hosted an Olympics that were famously hailed as the "best games ever," Sydney has had to confess that it faked one of the key musical performances at the opening ceremony in 2000. UEFA warns against UK team for 2012 Olympics (ESPN Soccernet.com) UEFA general secretary David Taylor has warned that forming a Great Britain football side for the Olympics could see Scotland 'disappear off the international stage'. Mobile And Online Olympics Coverage Didn't Cannibalize TV In Canada: CBC (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance) TV viewership didn't drop off in Canada during the Olympics despite a jump in mobile and online access, the Canadian Press reports. CBC generated more than 46 million page views during the Olympics – nearly double the 27 million page views it registered during the 2004 games. Call to let the sheepdogs loose at the Olympics (icWales) WHILE loud calls have been made in recent days for rugby and a British football team to be included in the Olympics, last night there were also surprising pleas for sheepdog trialling to be made part of the Games. Australia keen on having cricket in Olympics (rediff.com) Joining the chorus of its players to get cricket in the list of Olympic events, Cricket Australia (CA) said that both cricket and the Games would benefit if the sport becomes a part of the quadrennial extravaganza. Cricket Australia believes that cricket could be the vehicle to give Olympics a greater presence and television audience on the subcontinent, which accounts for almost a quarter of ... Olympics visitors thrilled by China's ancient printing technique (New Kerala) Hangzhou (China), Aug 29 : Dongyuan, a mountainous small village in eastern China's Zhejiang province, could never have expected the Beijing Olympics to bring so much for it. The 17th annual Canine Olympics are a hit (Journal Inquirer) More than 4,000 people attended the 17th annual Connecticut Police Canine Olympics on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Olympics: Cyclists may train in London to prepare for 2012 Games (The Star) KUALA LUMPUR: National cyclists can look forward to a new training base overseas in their programme for the 2012 London Olympics. The Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF) are looking at using London as the gateway to more competitive races in Europe. Olympics provide field hockey coaching tips (The Oxford Press) The Beijing Olympics couldn't have come at a better time for first-year Fairmont High School girls field hockey coach Claudia Crumbaugh or Lindsay Schafer, her Oakwood counterpart. \ |
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