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东方网1月28日消息：丹麦国家体育中心27日表示，丹麦自我评估可以在伦敦奥运会上夺得7枚奖牌。
在2008年北京奥运会上，丹麦共有84名运动员参赛，获得2金2银2铜6枚奖牌。
丹麦国家体育中心主任迈克尔・安德森在当日举行的新闻发布上表示：“丹麦在20到22个项目上有冲击奖牌的希望。经验显示，每2.5到3个奖牌希望最后能实现一枚奖牌，因此7枚奖牌是丹麦在伦敦奥运会上最现实的目标。”
安德森表示，丹麦参加2012年伦敦奥运会的运动员人数在100到110人之间，是继1996年亚特兰大奥运会后参赛人数最多的。丹麦在羽毛球、自行车、赛艇、帆船、游泳和网球六个大项上最有可能斩获奖牌。
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东方网1月28日消息：1988年出生的邹凯属龙，今年正好是本命年。4年前，当时还名不见经传的他，在北京奥运会上一举收获男子体操团体、个人自由体操和单杠3枚金牌。这一成绩使邹凯能够比肩当年的体操王子李宁，成为在一届奥运会上收获3金的体操运动员。
4年之后，邹凯希望本命年能够给自己带来好运，在伦敦奥运会上再现辉煌一刻。近日，正在冬训的国家体操队的小伙子们在体操馆内进行了一场新发展动作的队内测验，包括陈一冰、邹凯、张成龙在内的12名伦敦奥运会备战运动员悉数参加。体操队总教练黄玉斌在评价邹凯时表示：“邹凯在强项上增加实力，单项机会也会更大，过去可能是十拿八稳，现在希望能增加到十拿九稳。”
其实，邹凯在2009年蝉联单杠世锦赛冠军之后，莫名其妙地在国际赛场上消失了一段时间。去年日本世锦赛上，邹凯也是直到最后一刻才被派遣上场。令人惊喜的是，邹凯抓住了这次上场机会，再次将男团和单杠金牌收入囊中。“北京奥运会之后，心理上出现了一点改变，整个人有点飘，主要表现在训练上心态有变化，感觉自己能够保持水平就没有问题了。”邹凯毫不讳言自己状态的沉浮。
如今，伦敦奥运会就在眼前。“2012年伦敦奥运会要再拿三金肯定不容易，但成熟运动员看得更是临场状态，我希望到时候能把状态调整到最好，反正肯定是冲着奥运冠军去的！”邹凯说。
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“平时是100减1等于99,奥运会时100减1等于0”——这是拳击奥运冠军邹市明的奥运会夺金理论。
春节期间,在海南省高级体校训练馆内,记者见到了正在训练的邹市明。他穿着一身黑色运动服,在国家拳击队20多名运动员中并不显眼。卧推杠铃、哑铃推举、打沙袋,邹市明一项一项专心地练习着。
在去年9月举行的世界男子拳击锦标赛中,邹市明夺得了49公斤级冠军,成功获得了伦敦奥运会入场券,此次海南冬训就是为了备战奥运会。
“这是我在海南训练的第三个冬天,2008年和去年我都是在这里冬训,这里的气候很好,”邹市明说。
国家拳击队副领队周涛介绍说,本次冬训为期两个多月,主要以训练技术、体能和力量为主,每天上午和下午各训练2个小时。对于邹市明来说,冬训的主要任务是“查漏补缺”。
邹市明告诉记者,自己的训练强度并不大,因为脚上有伤,教练也对他的训练计划进行了调整。
近两三年来,邹市明的右脚一直有伤,跟腱和脚踝都有不同程度地损伤,去年打完世锦赛后伤势更严重了。这次冬训期间,他在训练以外的所有空闲时间都用来接受治疗。每堂训练课后,他都要拿冰块敷脚,然后进行中西医结合的理疗。
“如果保养得不好,连走路都疼。现在要想完全康复是不可能了,只能尽量恢复,保证伤势不再继续恶化。不过,到了奥运会上,我咬着牙也得挺住。”
谈到伦敦奥运会,邹市明直言“目标肯定就是金牌”。“我有信心,毕竟我的技术是属于世界顶尖的,但是困难重重。奥运会一定要做到零事故。”因为平时有一点点不足和欠缺,还可以努力弥补,但是在奥运赛场上,只有一次机会不允许一点点失误,否则就会前功尽弃。
“这就是我的理论,平时是100减1等于99,奥运会时是100减1等于0。”
北京奥运会后的两年时间里,邹市明一直处于休息状态,没有参加任何世界大赛,一度淡出了人们的视野。“这是为了保存实力,”邹市明说。不过当他赢得了去年世锦赛冠军后,他又成为了焦点。
“伦敦奥运会的夺金路上,肯定会有很多人专门针对我、防备我。而且这将是我参加的第三届奥运会,年龄相对偏大,”邹市明说。
与前两届奥运会不同,今年30岁的邹市明已经为人夫为人父。“现在有了家庭,有了孩子,多了一些牵挂,不能像以前一样全身心地投入训练。”
然而,无论困难多大,都影响不了邹市明奥运会夺金的决心。“这么多年来,各级领导一直都很器重我,希望我在伦敦奥运会上再为国家添一枚金牌,这是对我的信任。伦敦奥运会将是我参加的最后一届奥运会,我也希望能为祖国、为宝宝献上一块金牌,同时也为我的奥运旅程画上一个完美的句号。”
采访即将结束时,正好遇上邹市明的妻子冉莹颖抱着儿子来到场馆。邹市明立即上前亲吻儿子,一个普通父亲的幸福溢于言表,他开心地说:“再过两天,儿子就满7个月了。”
对于丈夫出征伦敦奥运会,冉莹颖的最大期望就是“他能拿冠军”。“爸爸,加油!”冉莹颖举着孩子的小手喊道。
(据新华社海口1月26日电)
Article source: http://www.china.com.cn/sport/txt/2012-01/28/content_24489314.htm
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The tourist crush was seemingly what the Olympic bid committee had in mind when it proposed London’s East End, about a dozen Underground stops northeast of fixtures like Big Ben, as the epicenter of the competition, which begins July 27. Though sailing races will be held in Weymouth and Portland, and soccer matches around the country, most of the games will take place in this industrial wasteland now poised for a turnaround.
But long before the Olympics came to town, the East End played a leading if shadowy role in London’s history. In past decades, few tourists may have felt compelled to visit an area known for abandoned warehouses, racial strife and Jack the Ripper’s murder spree. Now two tours reframe the area, in the first case as a shining new home for the Olympics, and in the second as a collection of vivid neighborhoods that once absorbed the worst of the bombing in World War II, gave birth to the Salvation Army, inspired George Orwell and Jack London and now is home to a mix of striving immigrants and artists.
“The bid was predicated on a part of London that was sorely in need of help,” said Steven Back, a Blue Badge guide with Tour Guides, who led me and 12 other visitors on a two-hour Olympic Walk departing from the Bromley-by-Bow tube station. “The East is the only direction in which London could grow.”
Standing before the restored 1776 House Mill, Mr. Back described the area during the years before the Industrial Revolution as “London’s breadbasket,” where agricultural fields banked the Lea River, and mills processed grain. Industrialization transformed the area, introducing soap factories, leather tanneries and chemical plants that polluted the air and water but remained downwind of posh districts to the west.
Pockets of gentrification in East London predate Olympic efforts. Shouldering a tripod, a cameraman stopped to ask directions to nearby 3 Mills Studio, the largest sound-stage in London, used by the filmmakers of “Never Let Me Go” and “Sherlock Holmes II,” and currently engaged in preparing for the Games’ opening and closing ceremonies. Despite a few apartment buildings and funky houseboats lining the canals, the Olympic vicinity of East London felt empty, with construction cranes appearing to outnumber people.
That sense of desertion changed as we ascended the Greenway, a 4.4-mile elevated footpath that follows the area’s sewage system and skirts Olympic Park (“Sometimes we get a whiff, but it smells quite good today,” our guide observed). Roughly one mile from our start, we joined other groups milling in front of the construction zone to survey the stadium, the distant stingray-shaped aquatics center designed by Zaha Hadid, and the Orbit Tower, a viewing platform designed by the sculptor Anish Kapoor. Strolling north, we glimpsed the white cube that will host basketball games and the elliptical, wood-clad velodrome by Hopkins Architects nicknamed the “Pringle.”
The tour ended at the View Tube, a neon green shipping-container-turned-community center. Its Container Cafe, posted with local artwork and populated by lingering coffee sippers, offers the tour’s only glimpse of residents in the Olympic area, a mix of scruffy artists, quiet pensioners and working-class mothers shepherding their children to an adjacent playground.
After the Games, plans include converting the stadium to a home for one of the area’s professional soccer teams; the swim center to a community pool; and the athlete’s village to affordable housing. But a tour of Olympic Park reveals little about local life in East London, which is considered Britain’s gateway for immigrants, with large concentrations from Bangladesh, Africa and the Caribbean.
For a more insiderly tour of the East End, I contacted the new London Greeters service. Founded last February, London Greeters offers free, resident-led, one-on-one tours that range from one to four hours. The organization’s 22 volunteer guides cover the five East London boroughs, as well as Camden in Central London.
Arrangements require e-mailing the Greenwich-based service at least two weeks before a visit. I expressed an interest in art, aiming for Shoreditch or Hoxton on the list of neighborhoods I would visit. Three days later, I received what sounded like a less-than-perfect match. A man named Graham Woods was available on my designated date to show me around Hackney, a working-class area with little presence in guidebooks. But in premeeting e-mails, Mr. Woods enthusiastically detailed three itineraries. We settled on a two-hour itinerary for which I was 20 minutes late. I found my tall, bearded escort, a retired engineer’s model maker, patiently waiting outside the Hackney Central train station.
Hackney made a jumbled first impression. Ethnic restaurants range from African to Vietnamese. A Greek Orthodox church is nearby a fashion school. A Victorian-era theater has a weedy tree growing on its roof.
A fuller picture of the area began to form in the Hackney Museum, where artifacts included a recreated World War II air raid shelter with cot and gas mask, and exhibitions that charted Jewish and Asian immigrant waves.
Afterward, crossing London Fields (a former meadow for slaughterhouse-bound livestock that is now a park with towering London plane trees), we entered a neighborhood of subsidized apartments built after World War II. As we watched a boy kicking a soccer ball on a fenced-in lawn, Mr. Woods explained that the brick row houses replaced areas bombed by Nazi pilots aiming for East End factories. His own family’s home here was destroyed, he said.
“They said I flew through the window,” Mr. Woods said, describing the bombing that left his family uninjured but homeless. “I was 2 years old. I don’t remember.”
We passed three Middle Eastern teenagers in hoodies, a bricklayer tuckpointing an apartment bearing a “Sold” sign, and stylish couples hastening down the residential streets en route to busy Dalston Lane, where Mr. Woods took my arm to avoid careening double-decker buses as we crossed.
Now in a bohemian pocket known as Dalston, we looked in on a cafe called FARM:shop, which grows much of its own produce, raises fish in tanks surrounding the tables, and draws 20-something laptop-tappers at this between-meals hour. We stopped to see the flower-filled Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, a community garden in an abandoned rail yard, then climbed four stories to the top of a onetime paint factory, now home to the funky Dalston Roof Park with raised herb beds and a bright turquoise shed-cum-bar serving tap beer and margaritas.
In the former factory next door we peeked into Arcola Theater, spying on a pair of sweaty actors blocking a fight scene onstage, and an eclectic music club called Cafe Oto where hipsters clad in retro plaid capris and muscle T’s chatted over the jazz on the sound system. Though our two-hour plan stretched into three, Mr. Woods insisted on escorting me by train to my next appointment in nearby Shoreditch.
The Olympics, I learned from my first guided exploration, has already created a new destination in the East End. But the Greeters service gives the existing place a face.
IF YOU GO
To arrange a London Greeters (visiteastlondon.com/london-greeters) tour of East London, send an e-mail to greeters@greenwich.gov.uk about two weeks in advance. The free tours, limited to six people, last about one to four hours.
Tour Guides offers a two-hour daily Olympic Park walking tour at 11 a.m., departing from the Bromley-by-Bow Underground station, for £9, or $13.65 at $1.50 to the pound, for an adult. Reserve a space at tourguides2012.co.uk.
Article source: http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/travel/touring-londons-east-end.html?pagewanted=all
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January 27, 2012 10:15 am
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* Opening Olympics ceremony called “Isles of Wonder”
* Director aims to emulate Sydney, not Beijing
* Few details, but will feature a giant bell, nurses
By Mike Collett-White
LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Danny Boyle, the man
overseeing the opening ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics,
revealed on Friday that it will be called “Isles of Wonder” and
involve a big bell and lots of nurses.
The latter was a tribute to the National Health Service, a
public organisation the film director said Britons took
particular pride in, while the title came from arguably the
greatest of all playwrights, William Shakespeare.
A giant bell cast especially for the ceremony, which is in
exactly six months’ time, will ring out to mark the beginning of
festivities.
Boyle, the Oscar-winning director of “Slumdog Millionaire”,
told reporters he was aiming for a less spectacular show than
some recent games, in part as a result of budget constraints.
“We wanted to make the feel of the opening ceremony …
intimate and personal,” he said.
“We didn’t want to slavishly be bossed about by the TV
audience, which is a billion people and it is not insignificant.
“But we wanted the 80,000 people who were lucky enough to be
in there (the stadium) to be the conduit through which you feel
this experience.”
His idea was to emulate Sydney’s opening ceremony in 2000
rather than that of Beijing in 2008.
“Obviously the spectacle of Beijing was just breathtaking,
the scale of it, and the beauty of Athens (2004) is very, very
inspiring, but I have to say Sydney is something that has
inspired us because Sydney got some of the feel of a people’s
games.
“The reduction in scale is inevitable,” he added.
OFFICIALS DEFEND SOARING BUDGET
Stephen Daldry, in charge of all four Olympic ceremonies —
the opening and closing of the Olympic and Paralympic Games —
defended the government’s decision to roughly double the total
budget to over 80 million pounds ($127 million).
“Even with the extra investment from government to the …
40 million which existed for ceremonies in the original bid,
London will be spending a lot less, considerably less, than was
spent in the last two summer games,” Daldry said.
Sebastian Coe, London 2012 chair, added that TV advertising
and other revenue from the ceremonies was estimated to be worth
between two and five billion pounds.
Despite the spending constraints, some 10,000 performers
have already been recruited for the ceremonies and more are
being sought. The PA system will be one million watts, and
25,000 costumes will be on display.
Boyle said the title of the ceremony had been inspired by a
speech made by Caliban in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, the words
of which would be inscribed on the bell.
Asked to explain his decision to honour the NHS, a
politically charged topic in Britain amid budget cuts, he
replied: “You sit there when you start this process and you
think, ‘what is unique about us?’ … and you’re trying to
capture some of that.”
There would be dress rehearsals in a full stadium before the
opening, meaning leaks were a risk, and the live ceremony had
the “jeopardy” of things going wrong, officials said.
There will be a pre-show of about 50 minutes on July 27
broadcast inside Britain before the bell opens the ceremony
proper at 9 p.m. local time.
Organisers said they hoped to keep it down to three hours,
although protocol, including the walk-past of thousands of
athletes, meant it would be a tough task.
Asked how he hoped to achieve this, Boyle replied: “(Music
directors) Underworld are making sure the marching music is at
least 120 beats a minute.”
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)
Article source: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=reu-ceremony_pix_tv