Fanny Blankers-Koen: ‘The Flying Housewife’ who won four Olympic gold medals in one year
In the face of criticism that she was too old to compete, Holland’s Fanny Blankers-Koen won four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics.
In the face of criticism that she was too old to compete, Holland’s Fanny Blankers-Koen won four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics.
The 1900 Olympics were the first of their kind to allow women to compete, and it was a British woman who came away as the first ever female Olympic champion.
A poll of public reaction to the Olympics opening ceremony reveals big support for Friday’s spectacular, further highlighting just how out of touch the haters are.
Douglas Alexander: “As Scots we may believe there’s nowhere better – but Friday reminded us there’s something bigger”
The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony, reports Shamik Das.
As of today, we the UK are officially the luckiest country in the world – the London 2012 Olympic Games are here!
Olympic legend Carl Lewis expressed the embarrassment and exasperation of his nation with a stinging slapdown of Mitt Romney for his anti-Games comments today.
Michelle Obama today greeted the US Olympic team in Docklands with an inspirational speech to kick off the final countdown to the Games.
Mitt Romney, boss of Salt Lake City 02 – a byword for all that was previously wrong with the Games – has questioned Britain’s readiness for the Olympics.
We can only hope that scheduling Team GB’s women’ footballing debut to coincide with opening day hysteria will challenge past records on poor coverage.