Olympic cricket

Thrown in at the deep end

CricInfo.com - UK
Alan Thompson is in charge of Australia's Olympic team. Ninety-five days
before the lighting of the flame in Beijing he talked to a bunch of cricket
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Meet the mechanic of the mind with an inside track on winning gold
guardian.co.uk - UK
... judo qualifier in Karina Bryant, and the Olympic bronze medallist
pentathlete Georgina Harland. He also works in diving, netball,
trampolining, cricket, ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/may/08/4>



BCCI to help MPs stay fit
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India
New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) After allocating a corpus of Rs 50 crore for
training Olympic medal aspirants, the cash rich cricket board has now
turned its ...
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SOS for hockey?
By rizal hashim(rizal hashim)
Is it true the team were asked to sleep till 11.0am on rest days and later play cricket or rounders during the Olympic qualifiers? Here are excerpts of the letter (unedited): * Rebut the facts of the hockey lover letter and other ...
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malaysian sports' loose cannon
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‘IPL can be an Olympic sport within a 10-yr span’

Sports in brief

New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
CRICKET - Ntare school old boys (OBs) in conjunction with Uganda Cricket
Association have donated cricket equipment to Ntare School in a move to
promote the ...
<http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/30/626322>

That gold medal is ultimate to me
Daily News &amp; Analysis - Mumbai,India
Nowadays cricket has taken the centrestage among Indian sports, but to
represent the country in the Olympics must be of greater fun and enjoyment.
<http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1162911>


To carry a clean flag
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
... won the Olympic bronze at the turn of the century, the whole world was
talking about her and not only a few countries that indulge in the game of
cricket.
<http://www.sundaytimes.lk/080504/Sports/SundayMusings.html>


'IPL can be an Olympic sport within a 10-yr span'
By cricketnews4u
Stanford, who has offered a multi-million pounds investment proposal to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), said he envisaged international teams playing alongside counties in the new competition. ...
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IPL Rocks - Now lets extend it to other sports!
By VA(VA)
How can the medals come when there is no active promotion of sports besides cricket in India? Forming commercial leagues for other sports and actively marketing them may be the first-step towards more Olympic medals. ...
<http://vinima.blogspot.com/2008/05/ipl-rocks-now-lets-extend-it-to-other.html>
Dreamin...
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"I can trade everything I have achieved on the cricket field for an Olympic Gold medal,

'Carrying the Olympic torch is a dream come true'

GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
By Sunil K. Vaidya, Bureau Chief Muscat: "I can trade everything I have
achieved on the cricket field for an Olympic Gold medal," said former
Indian captain ...
<http://www.gulfnews.com/sport/Olympic/10205492.html>

Music and sports play a role in diplomacy
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Great Britain has been attaching importance to cricket, while Germany,
France, Italy and other European countries give attachment to soccer. The
Olympic ...
<http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=32044>

The true goal remains London 2012,

Beijing 2008 Olympics: Final countdown for six British hopefuls

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The true goal remains London 2012, and there are still a few high-scoring dives Tom isn't strong enough to attempt yet. 'It's fairytale stuff,' Banks says, ...

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TWO local colleges are set to host Olympic athletes in the build up to the 2012 London Games

Colleges gear up for 2012 bid

Garstang Today - Garstang,UK
TWO local colleges are set to host Olympic athletes in the build up to the 2012 London Games. Both Stonyhurst and Myerscough College have been selected as a ...

easing of censorship may be tied to the upcoming Olympic Games

News for nerds, stuff that matters

Slashdot - USA
The article speculates that the easing of censorship may be tied to the upcoming Olympic Games. antipeon alerts us to a presidential preference survey, ...

The London surveillance Olympics

The surveillance Olympics

By A WORLD TO WIN(A WORLD TO WIN)
All of its own cameras, numbering a mere 10000, will be pooled with traffic, congestion and other cameras across the city to create a network, the BBC reports. This network "would be operated from a command centre, in London, ...
<http://aw2w.blogspot.com/2008/03/surveillance-olympics.html>
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