Tag: olympics
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London 2012 Olympics snapshots, Part 3
Here are some pictures of the other venues of the 2012 London Olympics located outside the main venue at Stratford. To recap briefly, we had a chance to see the 2012 summer games up close and here are our earlier posts: snapshots part 1, part 2, International Broadcast Center, badminton, diving, and track cycling. We were lucky to…
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London 2012 Olympics snapshots, Part 2
Just found a bunch of pictures taken during the 2012 London Olympics that are intended to be posted. In our initial post of Olympics snapshots last year (it’s here), we focused on the events we saw. Here, the focus is on the venues. What’s the name of this thing ? It was massive. Noticed the…
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Roganic, London
Roganic is a restaurant by Simon Rogan in Marylebone, London. He is known for the innovative food served in his restaurant L’Enclume situated in the faraway Lake District in northwest England. The restaurant is referred to as “pop-up” in the press and it is accordingly sparsely decorated as it only has a 2-year lease. The…
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Z Hotel Victoria and the Blakemore in London
For our trip to see the 2012 Olympics Games in London, we left hotel arrangements till the last minute. At the time, there were news that the room prices were dropping because people were scared away from Central London due to the sky-high rates. But, the choicest hotels were all gone and what was left…
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London 2012: Olympics Diving
This is probably the last post about a specific Olympic sport that we saw in London. We have so far written about badminton, 100m sprint, and track cycling. The Aquatic Center was designed by Zaha Hadid who described the concept at her site: A concept inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating…
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London 2012: Usain Bolt’s 100 meters Gold
This is the historic moment of Usain Bolt captured from where we were standing in the stadium. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHeNLvKmsg?rel=0&w=510&h=287] What was remarkable was the hush just before the start, the whole stadium got really quiet. Playback the clip above and hear it for yourself. We were standing in an area near the starting line. The…